Standard 4 : Fluency (Archived)



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General Information

Number: LAFS.3.RF.4
Title: Fluency
Type: Cluster
Subject: English Language Arts - Archived
Grade: 3
Strand: Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (K-5)

Related Standards

This cluster includes the following benchmarks
Code Description
LAFS.3.RF.4.4: Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
  1. Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
  2. Read on-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
  3. Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.


Related Access Points

This cluster includes the following access points.

Access Points

Access Point Number Access Point Title
LAFS.3.RF.4.AP.4a: Practice self-monitoring strategies to aid comprehension (e.g., reread, use visuals or cueing system, self-correct, ask questions, confirm predictions).
LAFS.3.RF.4.AP.4b: Identify grade-level words with accuracy.
LAFS.3.RF.4.AP.4c: Read text (including prose and poetry) with accuracy, appropriate rate and expression (when applicable) on successive readings.
LAFS.3.RF.4.AP.4d: Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition.


Related Resources

Vetted resources educators can use to teach the concepts and skills in this topic.

Lesson Plans

Name Description
Perfect Pool Plans:

Students will help select the perfect pool construction company to build pools for a vacation housing development. They will have to look at several factors and come up with a plan to find a company that meets the needs of their client.

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Animal Habitat MEA:

Animal Habitat MEA is where the students will help a pet store choose which habitat they should buy to house their snake and lizard families. The students will solve an open-ended problem and give details on the process that they used to solve the problem.

Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. MEAs resemble engineering problems and encourage students to create solutions in the form of mathematical and scientific models. Students work in teams to apply their knowledge of science and mathematics to solve an open-ended problem, while considering constraints and tradeoffs. Students integrate their ELA skills into MEAs as they are asked to clearly document their thought process. MEAs follow a problem-based, student centered approach to learning, where students are encouraged to grapple with the problem while the teacher acts as a facilitator. To learn more about MEA’s visit: https://www.cpalms.org/cpalms/mea.aspx

Poetry Parade: Fluency is developed as students read, reread and memorize poems. Students will present poems to the class.
Teaching Fluency Using Readers Theatre: Students will work together to prepare and perform a Readers Theatre using classic Dr. Seuss stories.

Student Center Activities

Name Description
Fluency: Fluent Reflections:

In this activity, students will read text and self-evaluate their reading fluency using the provided evaluation checklist.

Fluency: Read Along:

In this activity, students will practice reading fluently using teacher-selected technology.

Fluency: Compu-Read:

In this activity, students will read fluency passages using teacher-selected reading software.

Fluency: Poetic License:

In this activity, students will read teacher-selected poems with a partner.

Fluency: Impressive Expressive:

In this activity, students will read teacher-selected passages using expression appropriate to the content of the text.

Fluency: Cast of Readers:

In this activity, students will rehearse and read text using a reader's theater format.

Fluency: Follow My Lead:

In this activity, students will read text chorally in unison.

Fluency: Echo Echo:

In this activity, students will practice reading fluently by echo reading text with a partner.

Fluency: Reading Results:

In this activity, students will time repeated readings and graph words correct per minute.

Fluency: Reading Twosome:

In this activity, students will gain speed and accuracy by rereading teacher-selected text with a partner.

Fluency: Practice and Read:

In this activity, students will practice reading teacher-selected target words and then read connected text containing those words.

Fluency: Chunk It Up:

In this activity, students will divide text into meaningful chunks and then read it fluently.

Fluency: Division Decisions:

In this activity, students will divide text into meaningful parts and then read it fluently.

Fluency: Reading Chunks:

In this activity, students will read text that has been divided into meaningful chunks, then reread it fluently without the slash marks.

Fluency: Phrase Haste:

In this activity, students will quickly read phrases containing high-frequency words in a timed activity.

Fluency: Fleeting Phrases:

In this activity, students will quickly read phrases containing high-frequency words in a timed activity.

Fluency: Listen To Me:

In this activity, students will read and record passages. They will then self-evaluate their recorded reading, focusing on expression, rate, accuracy, and phrasing.

Fluency: Rapid Read:

In this activity, students will practice reading target words and then read connected text containing these words with a partner.

Fluency: Poetry Reading:

In this activity, students will read poems with a partner.

Fluency: Play It Up!:

In this activity, students will rehearse and read text using a reader's theater format.

Fluency: Read and Read Again:

In this activity, students will time repeated readings and graph words correct per minute.

Fluency: I Read, You Read:

In this activity, students will practice reading fluently by reading text with a partner.

Fluency: All Together Now:

In this activity, students will read teacher-selected text in unison.

Fluency: Two To Read:

In this activity, students will reread texts with a partner.

Fluency: Reading Wiz:

In this activity, students will read texts within teacher-selected computer-based programs.

Fluency: Listen and Read:

In this activity, students will practice reading fluently by reading along with pre-recorded text.

Fluency: Chunk It!:

In this activity, students will divide text into meaningful parts and then read it fluently.

Fluency: Chunky Passages:

In this activity, students will read text which has been divided into a chunked format, then reread it fluently in its original format.

Fluency: Chunk-A-Lot:

In this activity, students will read text which has been divided into meaningful chunks, then reread it fluently without the slash marks.

Fluency: Chunk-King:

In this activity, students will read text which has been divided into meaningful phrases by slash marks.

Fluency: Phrase Progression:

In this activity, students will read phrases that progressively result in sentences.

Fluency: Computer-Based Reading:

In this activity, students will interact with computer-based fluency passages (teacher-selected).

Fluency: Choral Reading:

In this activity, students will read text in unison.

Fluency: Repeated Timed Readings:

In this activity, students will time repeated readings of teacher-selected text and record words correct per minute.

Fluency: Partner Reading:

In this activity, students will practice reading fluently by reading teacher-selected text with a partner.

Teaching Idea

Name Description
Dolphin Word Play-SeaWorld Classroom Activity: Students will experiment with language and word play as they create poems about dolphins.