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Fluency Riddles

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    Riddles to practice reading fluency
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  • What has a head, a tail, is brown and has no legs?
    a penny
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  • One strand dangles. Two strands twist. Three or more can fashion this.
    braids
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  • Precious stones in a pack of cards.
    diamonds
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  • What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
    a stamp
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  • What word looks the same upside down and backwards?
    SWIMS
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  • What can be measured but has no length, width or height?
    temperature
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  • What 11-letter English word is always pronounced incorrectly?
    incorrectly
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  • Your reflection can be seen here, as long as you're not moving.
    water
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  • This is handy when you measure something or run a kingdom.
    a ruler
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  • I have 88 keys but cannot open a single door. What am I?
    a piano
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  • Lighter than what I am made of, more of me is hidden than what is seen. What am I?
    an iceberg
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  • There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall, and he wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?
    meat
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  • I can be dropped from the tallest of buildings and survive, but drop me from the smallest ship and I won't. What am I?
    A piece of paper.
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  • What has black spots and a white face, is fat not thin, and helps you to win, but tumbles all over
    dice
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  • He has one and a person has two, a citizen has three and a human being has four, a personality has five and an inhabitant of earth has six. What am I?
    syllables
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  • I am seen in the water and in the sky. I am in the rainbow and a jay’s feather. What am I?
    blue
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