Edit: during the listening for the sentence stage that's when you gotta use a lot of voice, "ahem...Goldie LIVED in Josie's APARTMENT. (dramatic pause for the "I hear it."). And reading for comprehension is not like oral reading skills where it's all about giving the passage personality. Yes, it's a little weird, just like reading for phonological awareness is a little weird.

Youth lives by personality, age lives by calculation. -- Aristotle on a calendar