LAFS.4.RF.4.4Archived Standard

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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.
General Information
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Grade: 4
Strand: Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (K-5)
Idea: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
Cluster: Fluency
Date Adopted or Revised: 12/10
Content Complexity Rating: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts - More Information
Date of Last Rating: 02/14
Status: State Board Approved - Archived
Assessed: Yes
Test Item Specifications
    Assessed with: LAFS.4.RL.2.4, LAFS.4.L.3.4, LAFS.4.L.3.5

Related Courses

This benchmark is part of these courses.
5008060: Health - Grade 4 (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 - 2024 (current), 2024 and beyond)
5010010: English for Speakers of Other Languages-Elementary (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022 (course terminated))
5010020: Basic Skills in Reading-K-2 (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2021, 2021 and beyond (current))
5010045: Language Arts - Grade Four (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current))
7710015: Access Language Arts - Grade 4 (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2018, 2018 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current))
7708040: Access Health Grade 4 (Specifically in versions: 2020 - 2023, 2023 and beyond (current))

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Lesson Plans

Pollinators:

This Model Eliciting Activity (MEA) is written at a 4th grade level. The Pollinator MEA provides students with an engineering problem in which they must work as a team to design a procedure to select the best pollinator 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. Click here to learn more about MEAs and how they can transform your classroom.

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Find WHAT in Florida?:

This lesson addresses the topic of resources found in Florida. As 4th grade students learn about Florida, they should also be able to identify natural resources that are found and used within the state. Students have the opportunity to access and use their prior knowledge as they discover what a natural resource is and what resources can be found in Florida. Students will explore some of these resources in a hands on activity. Additional components include a non-fiction article and cooperative learning

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Poetry Parade:

Fluency is developed as students read, reread and memorize poems. Students will present poems to the class.

Type: Lesson Plan

Reading Fluency:

The students will reread familiar text to develop fluency. They will practice reading with accuracy, speed, and appropriate intonation.

Type: Lesson Plan

Student Center Activities

Fluency: Fluent Reflections:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Read Along:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Compu-Read:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Poetic License:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Impressive Expressive:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Cast of Readers:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Follow My Lead:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Echo Echo:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Reading Results:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Reading Twosome:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Practice and Read:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Chunk It Up:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Division Decisions:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

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.

Type: Student Center 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.

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Poetry Reading:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Play It Up!:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Read and Read Again:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: I Read, You Read:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: All Together Now:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Two To Read:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Reading Wiz:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Listen and Read:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Computer-Based Reading:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Choral Reading:

In this activity, students will read text in unison.

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Repeated Timed Readings:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Partner Reading:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Teaching Idea

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Type: Teaching Idea

STEM Lessons - Model Eliciting Activity

Pollinators:

This Model Eliciting Activity (MEA) is written at a 4th grade level. The Pollinator MEA provides students with an engineering problem in which they must work as a team to design a procedure to select the best pollinator 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. Click here to learn more about MEAs and how they can transform your classroom.

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