CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.4
The Standard
Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · Reading Standards: Foundational Skills
What This Standard Means
Students need to read first grade text accurately, at a steady pace, and with expression that shows meaning. They should use decoding skills, sight word knowledge, and punctuation cues so the text sounds like language, not word-by-word guessing.
Mastery looks like a student rereading a familiar passage smoothly, fixing mistakes, and answering basic questions about what happened. Students often get stuck on stopping too long to decode, ignoring punctuation, reading too fast, or saying words correctly without understanding the sentence.
Ways to Teach It
- Use partner rereading with a 60-word decodable passage, where students read once for accuracy, then again for smoother phrasing.
- Ask, “Which sentence sounded like talking, and which sounded like a robot?” after modeling two ways to read the same line.
- Give each student a short familiar passage and mark errors, self-corrections, and whether they can retell one key detail.
- Have students practice reading a lunch menu, classroom note, or simple direction card so fluency supports getting real information.
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Related Standards
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.4.4
Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.5.4
Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.3.4
Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.2.4
Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.