Standard 1: Learning and Applying Foundational Reading Skills

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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

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Access Points

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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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: Phrase Haste:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Fleeting Phrases:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Quick Words:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Read Speed:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Give Me Five:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Quick Sort:

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

Type: Student Center 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.

Type: Student Center 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.

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Speedy Syllables:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Advanced Phonics: Word Way:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

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).

Type: Student Center Activity

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.

Type: Student Center Activity

Advanced Phonics: Embellished Words:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

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.

Type: Student Center Activity

Advanced Phonics: Sound Choice:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

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.

Type: Student Center Activity

Advanced Phonics: Affix Fit:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Advanced Phonics: Four Word:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Advanced Phonics: Affix Sort:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Advanced Phonics: Inflection Reflection:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

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.

Type: Student Center Activity

Advanced Phonics: Syllable Swap:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Advanced Phonics: Syllable Sort:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Advanced Phonics: Syllable Score:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Advanced Phonics: Syllable Game:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Advanced Phonics: The Write Word:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

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.

Type: Student Center Activity

Advanced Phonics: Star Search:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

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Student Center Activity

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.

Type: Student Center Activity