ELA.4.F.1.4

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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.

General Information
Subject Area: English Language Arts (B.E.S.T.)
Grade: 4
Strand: Foundational Skills
Standard: Learning and Applying Foundational Reading Skills
Date Adopted or Revised: 08/20
Status: State Board Approved

Related Courses

This benchmark is part of these courses.
5010030: Functional Basic Skills in Communications-Elementary (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 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))
5010024: Basic Skills in Reading 3-5 (Specifically in versions: 2021 and beyond (current))
5010026: Functional Reading Skills 3-5 (Specifically in versions: 2021 and beyond (current))
5010015: English for Speakers of Other Languages Grade 4 (Specifically in versions: 2022 and beyond (current))

Related Access Points

Alternate version of this benchmark for students with significant cognitive disabilities.
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.

Related Resources

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Lesson Plan

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.

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

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.

Student Resources

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Parent Resources

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