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.
An incredible amount of water covers Earth. Look at a globe. The blue area represents the water. There are about 200 billion liters (53 billion gallons) of water for each person on Earth!
There is not always enough water to drink, however.
Most of Earth’s water is salty ocean water. Salt water is fine for sea creatures. But it is not fine for humans and most other animals.
Only 3 percent of Earth’s water is fresh water. Fresh water is an important resource that we need every day.
We need to drink fresh water to live. All day, we lose water from our bodies. We lose it when we sweat and when we get rid of waste. We drink water to replace the water we lose.