CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.4b
The Standard
Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students reread a first-grade passage aloud and improve with each reading. They pronounce words correctly, keep a steady pace, group words naturally, and make their voice match the meaning.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student reads a familiar passage with accurate words, a steady pace, and natural phrasing. The student pauses at punctuation and uses voice changes that match the meaning.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think fluent reading means reading as fast as possible. They may ignore punctuation, use a flat voice, or guess at words instead of correcting mistakes.
How to Assess It
- Give each student a 60-word first-grade passage to read twice. Record word errors, pace, punctuation pauses, and voice changes on the second reading.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give students sentence strips, let them mark phrase breaks with slashes, then rehearse and read each sentence aloud.
Read one sentence in a flat voice and with expression, then ask, “Which reading helped you understand, and why?”
Play partner echo reading, where one student models a line and the other earns a token for matching accuracy, pace, and expression.
Have students rehearse and deliver a two-sentence weather report as if they were speaking on the morning announcements.
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