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Knowledge and Fluency Passages

City Life: Busy and Bright

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This Knowledge and Fluency Passage offers a carefully crafted passage that introduces students to the bustling life of a city—the tall buildings, busy streets, and lively sounds that can feel overwhelming. By exploring these details, students gain insight into the dog’s experience in Hot Dog, helping them connect with his feelings of sensory overload. This resource supports fluency practice while deepening comprehension through real-world context. Use this passage before reading the book to build background knowledge and prepare students to better comprehend the text.

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Geography & Places, Cities & Urban Life, Travel & Transportation

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Knowldge and Fluency Passages

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Use Hot Dog by Doug Salati to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

Both beautifully illustrated and creatively written, Caldecott award-winning, Hot Dog, tells the story of a little dog who has had enough of Summer in the City! When Hot Dog becomes too hot and overwhelmed, his owner hops a taxi, a train, and a ferry to take him on an adventure outside the city. Students will enjoy reading this onomatopoeia-filled text as they use key reading comprehension skills to comprehend and enjoy this playful story.

Students will find frequent opportunities to infer based on illustrations, determine the author's purpose for various illustrative and text-based decisions, and connect their own lives to Hot Dog's adventurous day.

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What’s Included in the Knowldge and Fluency Passages

Every package comes with:

A paired background passage connected to one of the books in the BookPagez library
A grade-level set of Fry high-frequency words
Fluency practice opportunities (model reading, partner/choral/independent rereads)
Comprehension questions (literal, inferential, vocabulary)
Teacher tools for progress monitoring (Words Correct Per Minute and prosody notes)

Why It Matters

Strong comprehension depends on more than decoding. Students also need background knowledge, smooth and expressive reading, and automatic recognition of high-frequency words. Knowledge & Fluency Passages bring all of that together in one resource. The passages fill in common knowledge gaps that can block understanding, give students repeated practice with fluency, and reinforce the words they’ll see most often in print. The result: more confident readers who are ready to dive into the books you teach.

Why You’ll Love Using Them

Think of these passages as a Swiss Army Knife for your literacy block. They prepare students for your read-alouds and small-group work, build fluency skills in meaningful ways, and give you quick assessment data—all without extra planning. Instead of stopping mid-story to explain tricky concepts, you’ll launch into texts knowing your students are already equipped to engage, notice, and think more deeply.

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Knowledge and Fluency Passages

City Life: Busy and Bright

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Teacher Guide

Explore Other Resources to Pair with Hot Dog

Fill Knowledge Gaps and Build Fluency for Better Comprehension

What’s Included in the Knowldge and Fluency Passages

Why It Matters

Why You’ll Love Using Them

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