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Increase Reading Fluency

To increase your reading fluency, it's important to monitor your own reading habits as you read. Look again
at the tips on page 8. As you read, follow these tips.
Now read the whole passage Style Rookie. As you read, think about what you are learning.
Style Rookie

Tavi Gevinson is not like most high
school girls. She picks out her own
clothes and doesn't dress like the other
girls at school. Tavi has many of her own
s ideas about fashion, and she expresses
them on her blog, Style Rookie. She
often posts pictures from fashion shows
and her own daily outfits. 1

Tavi started her blog when she was in
10 middle school. Her fashion choices and
opinions were very good. At first, many
people thoug�t a professional wrote
it. Her blog got popular very quickly.
After only eight months of writing Style
1 s Rookie, Tavi started to get messages
l from some of her favorite designers.

Tavi 's mother is an artist and her father
is an English teacher. h ey didn't know
T
2
about the blog until The New York Times asked to do an interview. Now, Tavi's
20. father goes with her to fashion events around the world.

Since she appeared in the newspaper, Tavi's fame has grown. In 2010, Tavi
designed her own T-shirt with a fashion company. She's also written stories for .
l fashion magazines. In that same e ar she was the guest of famous designers at
y
fashion events in New York, Paris, and Japan.

2 5 People all around the fashion world now take Tavi seriously. What does Tavi want
� to do when she grows up? She's already doing it!

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1 An outfit is a set of clothing.
2 An interview is when someone asks another person questions to find out about them.
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