ELA.2.F.1.4

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Read grade-level texts with accuracy, automaticity, and appropriate prosody or expression.

Clarifications

Clarification 1: See Dolch and Fry word lists.

Clarification 2: Many of the high frequency words at this grade level are either irregularly spelled and therefore not decodable or are temporarily irregular, meaning that students have not yet learned the phonics rule that would enable them to decode the word. Those words that are decodable should be introduced to students using appropriate phonics rules. See 2.F.1.3. Students will read grade-level appropriate high frequency words, decodable or not, with automaticity.

Clarification 3: See Fluency Norms for grade-level norms. Norms are expressed as words correct per minute (WCPM), a measure that combines accuracy with rate.

Clarification 4: 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 5: 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: 2
Strand: Foundational Skills
Standard: Applying Foundational Reading Skills
Date Adopted or Revised: 08/20
Status: State Board Approved

Related Courses

This benchmark is part of these courses.
5010020: Basic Skills in Reading-K-2 (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2021, 2021 and beyond (current))
5010030: Functional Basic Skills in Communications-Elementary (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current))
5010043: Language Arts - Grade Two (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2021, 2021 and beyond (current))
7710013: Access Language Arts - Grade 2 (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))
5010022: Functional Reading Skills K-2 (Specifically in versions: 2021 and beyond (current))
5010026: Functional Reading Skills 3-5 (Specifically in versions: 2021 and beyond (current))
5010013: English for Speakers of Other Languages Grade 2 (Specifically in versions: 2021 and beyond (current))

Related Access Points

Alternate version of this benchmark for students with significant cognitive disabilities.
ELA.2.F.1.AP.4: Write an expository text about a topic, using a source, providing an introduction and facts.

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Lesson Plans

Fun With Compound Words:

In this lesson, students will learn to identify, create, and determine the meaning of compound words. They will participate in a series of engaging center activities to practice using compound words.

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Digging Deep for Dino Details and Discussion:

In this unit, students will read appropriately leveled informational text on dinosaurs and identify the relevant details of the text. The students will create a detail web using evidence from the text and will then write an expository paper about their choice of dinosaur. The students will also participate in a guided class discussion. The students will practice the guidelines and procedures for successful discussion and will also practice how to come prepared for discussion by providing supporting information from texts that have been read.

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Ants in Your Pants! - Part 2:

In this lesson, students will learn how to find the central idea of the passage, Ants in Action. Students will also discuss what makes a fluent reader and participate in paired reading with a partner.

Type: Lesson Plan

Practicing Fluency with Shel Silverstein:

Your students will be delighted to become immersed into the world of Shel Silverstein’s masterful poems. As students practice fluency and oral presentation, they will also learn how to identify various rhyme schemes and record their favorite poem.

Type: Lesson Plan

Student Center Activities

Fluency: Pick-A-Part:

In this activity, students will quickly identify letter-sounds and word parts in a card game.

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Syllable Speed Practice:

In this activity, students will quickly read syllables (sorted by syllable types) in a timed activity.

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Syllable Sprint:

In this activity, students will quickly read syllables containing varied spelling patterns in a timed activity. NOTE: Additional syllable cards are available in CPALMS' resource .

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Word Part Race:

In this activity, students will quickly read word parts by using a race car slide.

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Digraph and Diphthong Dash:

In this activity, students will take turns identifying consonant digraphs, variable vowel teams, and vowel diphthongs in a timed activity.

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: Rapid Read:

In this activity, students will practice reading target words and then read connected text containing these words with a partner.

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: Chunk It!:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Chunky Passages:

In this activity, students will read text which has been divided into a chunked format, then reread it fluently in its original format.

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Chunk-A-Lot:

In this activity, students will read text which has been divided into meaningful chunks, then reread it fluently without the slash marks.

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Chunk-King:

In this activity, students will read text which has been divided into meaningful phrases by slash marks.

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Phrase Progression:

In this activity, students will read phrases that progressively result in sentences.

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Phrase Speed Practice:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Fast Phrases:

In this activity, students will read phrases in a timed activity.

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Fluent Phrasing:

In this activity, students will read words that progressively result in sentences.

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Word Speed Practice:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Word Sprint:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Pass the Word:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Affix Zip:

In this activity, students will quickly read affixes by doing timed practices. Included in this resource are syllable cards that extend the activity in CPALMS' resource .

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Say and Spell:

In this activity, students will read and spell high frequency words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Word Concentration:

In this activity, students will read high frequency words while playing a memory game.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Jumping Words:

In this activity, students will read high frequency words while playing a checker game.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Word Crazy:

In this activity, students will read high frequency words by playing a card game.

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Word Family Zoom:

In this activity, students will quickly read words in the same word family by doing timed practices.

Type: Student Center Activity

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