READING FLUENCY

Practice Phrasing: “Here, There, and Beyond”

Phrasing is how you use your voice to group words together. Use this passage to practice reading with proper phrasing. Print a copy of this passage from InsideNG.com to help you monitor your progress.

The four planets closest to the sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. These planets have a lot in common. They are mostly made up of rock and metal, so they all have hard, uneven surfaces.

Because of their content, the planets closest to the sun have high densities. This means that these planets are made up of condensed, or tightly packed, materials. They also share the qualities of having slow rotation and solid surfaces.

The rocky planets closest to the sun are also alike in other ways. They are small compared to most of the other planets in our solar system. These planets also do not have many moons, or objects that rotate, or move, around a planet.