- Her daughters would seek her out
- at night
- when she seemed to have a moment
- Yoyo stormed out of that room
- and into her own.
- She was a good enough Mami,
- fussing and scolding
- and giving advice.
- Important, crucial, final things,
- and here was their own mother,
- who didn’t have a second.
- “I kept telling you,
- one of these days
- my ship would pass me by in the night!”
A fluent reader thinks about phrasing. To read aloud smoothly, a reader groups words that go together and takes a breath only after saying the complete phrase.
If you were reading aloud from "Daughter of Invention,” which underlined words would you need to say together as a group? Check all that apply.
Her daughters would seek her out at night when she seemed to have a moment
Yoyo stormed out of that room and into her own.
She was a good enough Mami, fussing and scolding and giving advice
Important, crucial, final things, and here was their own mother, who didn’t have a second
“I kept telling you, one of these days my ship would pass me by in the night!”
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