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The Volunteer Garden

Grade 4
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The Volunteer Garden — 54 words. Read it aloud to a partner.

Behind the community center there was an empty lot full of weeds. One Saturday, twenty volunteers arrived with shovels, seeds and wheelbarrows. By the afternoon they had planted tomatoes, potatoes and sunflowers. Now the garden feeds families across the neighborhood, and every volunteer who helped has a sign with their name on the fence.
Read for one minute three times. Write your words-per-minute each time: Try 1: ____   Try 2: ____   Try 3: ____
1. What was the lot full of at first?
weeds cars rocks trash cans
2. How many volunteers came?
twenty ten five fifty
3. Which syllable is stressed in volunteer?
1st 2nd 3rd none
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