Read the passage once silently. Then, reread it aloud while trying to read faster and more smoothly.

The expression on his face shocked both mother and daughter. Carlos's toothless mouth had collapsed into a dark zero. His eyes bored into Yoyo, then shifted to Laura. In barely audible Spanish, as if secret microphones or informers were all about, he whispered to his wife, "You will permit her to read that?”

Laura's eyebrows shot up, her mouth fell open. In the old country, any whisper of a challenge to authority could bring the secret police in their black V. W.'s. But this was America. People could say what they thought. "What is wrong with her speech?" Laura questioned him.

Write three to five sentences explaining any strategies you used and what new understanding you gained from the text as a result of reading it aloud.