Standard 4 : Fluency (Archived)



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General Information

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

Related Standards

This cluster includes the following benchmarks
Code Description
LAFS.5.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.5.RF.4.AP.4a: Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition.
LAFS.5.RF.4.AP.4b: Use appropriate rate and expression.


Related Resources

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

Lesson Plans

Name Description
Shady Day MEA:

This Model Eliciting Activity (MEA) is written at a 5th grade level. The Shady Day MEA provides students with an engineering problem in which they must work as a team to design a procedure to select the best beach umbrella for certain situations.


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.

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: 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: 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: 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.

Unit/Lesson Sequences

Name Description
Words with Wings: A Treasury of African-American Poetry and Art 5th Grade Unit:

This is a fifth grade poetry unit using the book Words with Wings: A Treasury of African-American Poetry and Art by Belinda Rochelle. This poetry unit addresses genre, main idea, tone, theme, author's purpose, and figurative language. The unit concepts are supported through a student packet, which includes worksheet activities and graphic organizers.

Maniac Magee 5th Grade Unit: This is a fifth grade unit on the novel Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli. Graphic organizers, charts, comprehension and vocabulary worksheets, and authentic collaborative activities are used to enhance interaction with the novel. Several concepts are pursued, including theme, conflict, relationships, plot, and characters.