Material for Rapid Reading

A broken button, a single slice, a strange signal, a spoken sentence, a common fly, a human skull, a wide zone, a rusty hinge, a woollen jumper.

Written symbols, brittle crystals.

In a broken bottle, in a local paper, in a broken jug, in the dense jungle, in a distant mine, in a sinking vessel, on broken ice.

With a broken pencil, with a single candle, with trembling lips, with a final bump, with common sense, with a wide ribbon, with a wry face, with a jumping frog, with a mutton chop, with a broken pane, with a broken twig, with a broken wing.

I. Read the following aloud.

Fates, faces; rates, races; plates, places; slides, slices; spades, spaces; grades, graces; lakes, laces; spikes, spices; sides, sizes; notes, noses; mutes, muses; ropes, roses; states, stages; apes, ages; cakes, cages.

II. Read the following aloud:

A. He brushes it, she labels them, he opens it, he places them, she rinses it, he saddles it, he saves her, he sprinkles them, he stres­ses it, she watches him.

B. He blackens them, he faces him, he labels it, he presses them, he shaves him, he singes it, she stretches them, he uses it, she washes them.

C. He clutches him, he dodges it, he fuses them, she handles it, he misses her, he patents it, she settles it, he solves them, she spaces it, he wishes it.

IV. Read the following aloud:

She buttons it up, he closes them up, she dresses them up, she dishes it up, he fixes them up, she hushes it up, he laces them up, he messes it up, he minces it up, she mixes them up, he patches them up, he sizes it up, she slices them up, he tosses it up.

SECTION VIII.

One-Syllable Words and Two-Syllable Words (Continued)

Digraphs

1. I time tie tied tide rider no tone toe goes rose over -- cute cue cues use user me scene see sees these fever

2. see tree three free knee meet street sweet feet teeth deep cheek week need speed green seen seem steel wheel speech sleeve cheese sneeze squeeze

keep keeper keeping sleep sleeper sleeping feel feeler feeling freeze freezer freezing

3. sea - meat - meal - leaf – reach tea - seat - mean - east - each

weak - eat - clean - yeast - leave cheap - beat - dream - least – please steam steamer steaming speak speaker speaking teach teacher teaching weave weaver weaving

mete meet meat theme seem seam see sea week weak speech speak

meet - met feed - fed speed - sped feel - felt keep - kept sleep - slept sweep - swept weep- wept leave - left

less - least ten - teen depth - deep

ship - sheep dip - deep slip - sleep it - eat sit - seat hit - heat list - least fist - feast live - leave rid - reed grin - green sick - seek pick - peak kill - keel fill - feel mill - meal cliff - leaf pitch - peach rich - reach hate - heat shape - sheep pace - peace wave - weave slave - sleeve

4. boat coat float soap goal load road roast toast coast coal coaler coaling loaf loafer loafing goes - goat floe - float toe - toast rode - road lode - load coke - coal

rod - road got - goat cot – coat clock - cloak sock - soak cost - coast beast - boast eats - oats leaf - loaf 5. main rain train wait raise

may say stay way play pale pail tale tail lane lain wave waive raze raise maze maize mine - main white - wait rise - raise lie - lay die - day pie - pay my - may by - bay why - way they grey veil vein skein grey gray rein rain feint faint why whey way vine vein vain