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This activity helps students practice reading fluency with an informational passage about medieval soldiers and knights, and checks comprehension of key details and vocabulary. Use the reading fluency recording to gauge students' pace, expression, and accuracy; follow with the auto-graded comprehension pages to identify misunderstandings. For a partner or small-group extension, have students role-play a council where a lord recruits soldiers and explain who to hire and why. High-quality answers to the paragraph question should include multiple details from the passage (for example: differences between foot soldiers and knights, costs of becoming a knight, and ways knights earned money) and connect those details to an explanation. For the multimedia prompt, strong responses will clearly show a creative product (drawing, photo, video, or voice explanation) that identifies at least two features of knights or foot soldiers and explains one reason why knights were usually from wealthy families. Teachers can grade open-ended responses as correct if they include the requested details and reasoning.