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Cole Saves the Shop

Fluency Quick Check — student copy · VCe — o_e /ō/

Name: ________________ Date: __________

Cole likes to help people. Read to see how he helps when a fire starts in a shop.

Cole is a cop. He likes to help when he is on the job, and he likes to help at home.

Cole helps his dad. He pokes holes for grass.

Cole plants a rosebush to help his mom. “A rose is the best thing to smell with your nose,” she says with a grin.

Cole is in the zone! He helps his wife, and he scrubs the stone on their home.

When he rode to his job, Cole did hope to get a cake. “I could nosh a whole cake from the shop.”

Cole sees the shop. “No! Is that smoke?” Black smoke rose up, up, up!

Five cars in the cop’s path froze as he drove by them to get to the shop.

Cole got his phone to call for help. “Quick! This is not a joke!”

Teacher scoring (138 words)

Errors: ______ · Time: ______ sec · Accuracy: ______% · WCPM: ______

Prosody (circle): 1 · 2 · 3 · 4

Stop the timer where the passage words end (end of page 11), but let the reader finish the page for a natural stop.

Cole Saves the Shop

Comprehension Quiz — student copy

Name: ________________ Date: __________

  1. 1. Choose the word that does NOT fit in this group: broke, rake, hike, rod.

    A. broke

    B. rake

    C. hike

    D. rod

  2. 2. Which word rhymes with "zone"?

    A. hope

    B. phone

    C. hose

    D. drove

  3. 3. Which word has the same vowel sound as "rose"?

    A. rise

    B. hop

    C. rot

    D. rode

  4. 4. Which character trait describes Cole?

    A. helpful

    B. thankful

    C. negative

    D. lazy

  5. 5. What is the setting at the end of the story?

    A. home

    B. donut shop

    C. police station

    D. garden

  6. 6. What could be another title for this story?

    A. Cole the Hero

    B. The Cops

    C. Cole’s Wife

    D. Donut Shop

Answer key: 1-D · 2-B · 3-D · 4-A · 5-B · 6-A · Laprea Education / Developing Decoders