The Gray Oral Reading Test

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The Gray Oral Reading Test

Name: Age: Year:

1. A boy had a dog.


The dog ran into the woods.
The boy ran after the dog.
He wanted the dog to go home.
But the dog would not go home.
The little boy said,
“I cannot go home without my dog.”
Then the boy began to cry.

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2. Once there was a little pig.


He lived with his mother in a pen.
One day he saw his four feet.
“Mother, ”he said, “what can I do with my feet?”
His mother said “You can run with them.”
So the little pig ran round and round the pen.

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3. Once there was a cat and a mouse. They lived in the same house
The cat bit off the mouse’s tail. “Pray puss,” said the mouse, “give me
My long tail again.”
“No,” said the cat. “I will not give you your tail till you bring me
Same milk.”

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3. One there lived a king and a queen in a large palace. But the king
And queen were not happy. There were no little children in the house
Or garden .One day they found a poor little boy and girl at their door.
They took them into the beautiful palace and made them their own.
The king and queen were then happy.

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4. One of the most interesting birds which ever lived in my bird-room was a blue-
jay named Jackie. He was full of business from morning till night,scarcely ever
still. He had been stolen from a nest long before he could fly,and he had been
given to me as a pet.
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6. The part of farming enjoyed most by a boy is the making of maple


Sugar. It is better than blackberrying and almost as good as fishing. One
reason why a boy likes this work is that someone else does most of it. It
is a sort of work in which he can appear to be very industrious and yet do
but little.

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7. It was one of those wonderful evenings such as are found only in this
Magnificent region. The sun had sunk behind the mountains, but it was still
Light. The pretty twilight glow embraced a third of the sky, and against the
Brilliancy stood the dull white masses white masses of the mountains in
Evident contrast.

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8. The crown and glory of a useful life is character. It is the noblest possession of
man. It forms a rank in itself, an estate in the general goodwill,
dignifying every means of securing honor.

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9. He was approximately six feel tall and his body was well
proportioned. His complexion inclined to be florid; his eyes were blue blue
and remarkably for apart. A profusion of hair covered the forehead. He was
scrupulously next in appearance; and, though he habitually left his tent
early, he was well dressed.

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10. Responding to the impulse of habit, Josephus spoke as of old. The


others
Listened attinetively but in grim and contemptuous
silence. He spoke at length,contentiously,persistently,and
ingratiatingly.Finally exhausted through loss of strength, he hesitated.As
always happen in such exigencies,he was lost.

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11. The attraction of the American prairies as well as the alluvial
deposits of Egypt have been overcome by the azure skies of Italy and the
antiquities of Roman architecture. My delight in the antique and my
fondness for architectural and arch geological studies verges onto a
fanaticism.

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12 The hypotheses concerning physical phenomena formulated by


early philosophers proved to he inconsistent and in general not universally
applicable. Before relatively accurate principle could be established,
physicists, mathematician, and statistician had to combine forces and work
dolorously.

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