This document contains 84 short phrases that could be used for repeated reading practice. The phrases are made up of the most common words that children encounter in elementary school, representing 50% of words based on the Fry Instant Word List. The phrases range from simple sentences to fragments and include both high frequency individual words and short word combinations.

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Phrases and Short Sentences for
Repeated Reading Practice
The Fluent READER
by Timothy V Rasinski

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• The phrases contain the first 100
words from the Fry Instant Word List
(1980), which represent 50 percent
of all the words children encounter
in elementary school reading.

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the people

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by the water

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Who will make it?

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you and I

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What will they do

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He called me.

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We had their dog.

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What did they say?

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When would you
go?

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No way!

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more than the other

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How long are they?

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one or two

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a number of people

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Come and get it.

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How many words?

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part of the time

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This is a good day

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Can you see?

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Sit down

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now and then

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but not me

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Go find her.

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not now

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Look for some people.

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I like him.

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So there you are.

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out of the water

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along time

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We were here.

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Have you seen it?

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Could you go?

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one more time

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We like to write.

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all day long

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into the water

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It’s about time

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the other people

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up in the air

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she said to go

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Which way?

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each of us

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He has it.

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What are these?

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if we were older

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there was an old man

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It’s no use.

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It may fall down

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with his mom

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at your house

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from my room

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It’s been a long time.

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an angry cat

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May I go first?

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Write your name.

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This is my cat.

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That dog is big.

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Get on the bus.

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two of us

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Did you see it?

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the first word

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see the water

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as big as the first

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but not for me

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When will we go?

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How did they get it?

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from here to there

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number two

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more people

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look up

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go down

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al or some

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Did you like it?

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a long way to go

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When did they
go?

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for some of your people

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