Standard 1 : Learning and Applying Foundational Reading Skills



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General Information

Number: ELA.4.F.1
Title: Learning and Applying Foundational Reading Skills
Type: Standard
Subject: English Language Arts (B.E.S.T.)
Grade: 4
Strand: Foundational Skills

Related Benchmarks

This cluster includes the following benchmarks
Code Description
ELA.4.F.1.3: Use knowledge of grade-level phonics and word-analysis skills to decode words.
  1. Apply knowledge of all letter-sound correspondences, syllabication patterns, and morphology to read and write unfamiliar single-syllable and multisyllabic words in and out of context. 
Clarifications:
Clarification 1: At this level of reading, a student who is decoding at the phoneme level (i.e., “e-n-t-er-t-ai-n”) may decode a given text but will struggle with fluency and comprehension.
As such, phonics instruction should move toward decoding at the syllabication and morpheme level. For example, when a 4th-grader encounters the word “entertain” in text, we want him or her to segment by syllable (i.e., “en-ter-tain”) or by morphological structure (i.e., “enter-tain”).
ELA.4.F.1.4: Read grade-level texts with accuracy, automaticity, and appropriate prosody or expression.
Clarifications:
Clarification 1: See Fluency Norms for grade-level norms. Norms are expressed as words correct per minute (WCPM), a measure that combines accuracy with rate. 

Clarification 2: Appropriate prosody refers to pausing patterns during oral reading that reflect the punctuation and meaning of a text. See Sample Oral Reading Fluency Rubrics for prosody. 

Clarification 3: Grade-level texts, for the purposes of fluency, are those within the grade band on quantitative text complexity measures and appropriate in content and qualitative measures.



Related Access Points

This cluster includes the following access points.

Access Points

Access Point Number Access Point Title
ELA.4.F.1.AP.3a: Apply knowledge of letter-sound correspondences, syllabication patterns, and morphology to read and form familiar single-syllable and multisyllabic words in context.
ELA.4.F.1.AP.4: Read grade-level texts, at the student’s ability level, with accuracy and expression using the student’s mode of communication.


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Lesson Plan

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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.

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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: Quick Words:

In this activity, students will quickly read teacher-selected target words in a timed activity.

Fluency: Read Speed:

In this activity, students will quickly read multisyllabic high-frequency words on a practice sheet in a timed activity.

Fluency: Give Me Five:

In this activity, students will take turns reading multisyllabic high-frequency word cards in a timed activity.

Fluency: Quick Sort:

In this activity, students will sort and read multisyllabic words with shared rimes in a timed activity.

Fluency: Word Part Rush:

In this activity, students will quickly read word parts (syllables, affixes, and roots) on a practice sheet in a timed activity.

Fluency: Root Rap:

In this activity, students will quickly identify roots in a timed activity. As an extension, students will read multisyllabic words containing common roots.

Fluency: Speedy Syllables:

In this activity, students will quickly read syllables in a timed activity.

Advanced Phonics: Word Way:

In this activity, students will decode unfamiliar words by analyzing their parts.

Advanced Phonics: If the Clue Fits:

In this activity, students will identify words based on advanced phonics-related clues (i.e., affixes, roots, base words, syllable types, and vowel patterns).

Advanced Phonics: Root Hoot:

In this activity, students will identify roots in multisyllabic words and match them to words that have the same root while playing a card game.

Advanced Phonics: Embellished Words:

In this activity, students will combine base words and affixes to make new words while playing a board game.

Advanced Phonics: Double Time:

In this activity, students will write corresponding spelling patterns for long vowels in multisyllabic words. As an extension activity, students will write the correct vowel for the schwa sound.

Advanced Phonics: Sound Choice:

In this activity, students will decode and spell words containing vowel diphthongs while playing a board game.

Fluency: Affix Wiz:

In this activity, students will quickly read affixes on a practice sheet in a timed activity. As an extension, students will read multisyllabic words containing common affixes.

Advanced Phonics: Affix Fit:

In this activity, students will combine base words and affixes to make new words.

Advanced Phonics: Four Word:

In this activity, students will group multisyllabic words containing the same base word.

Advanced Phonics: Affix Sort:

In this activity, students will sort words based on their affixes.

Advanced Phonics: Inflection Reflection:

In this activity, students will make new words by combining words with inflections.

Advanced Phonics: Compound Construction:

In this activity, students will produce compound words that begin with a specific letter. In an extension activity, students will read and segment multisyllabic compound words into two words.

Advanced Phonics: Syllable Swap:

In this activity, students will match syllable cards to create words.

Advanced Phonics: Syllable Sort:

In this activity, students will sort words by syllable types.

Advanced Phonics: Syllable Score:

In this activity, students will segment words into syllables and record the number of syllables.

Advanced Phonics: Syllable Game:

In this activity, students will count syllables in words while playing a game.

Advanced Phonics: The Write Word:

In this activity, students will produce words with different spelling patterns while playing a game.

Advanced Phonics: Word-O-Matic:

In this activity, students will make words using letter cards containing digraphs, silent letter combinations, vowel teams, and vowel diphthongs.

Advanced Phonics: Star Search:

In this activity, students will decode and spell words with r-controlled vowel patterns.

Video/Audio/Animation

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Francisco Márquez was born in Venezuela and spent his childhood in both Venezuela and the U.S. He studied political science and law in Venezuela and earned his MBA in the United States. After receiving his MBA, Francisco returned to Venezuela. Under the authoritarian Nicolás Maduro regime, Francisco was arrested as a political prisoner and spent time in a Venezuelan prison. Eventually, Francisco was released and is now a political rights activist.



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Student Center Activity

Title Description
Advanced Phonics: Word-O-Matic:

In this activity, students will make words using letter cards containing digraphs, silent letter combinations, vowel teams, and vowel diphthongs.