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
What This Standard Means
Students need to read a first grade text out loud more than once and sound better each time. They should say the words correctly, keep a steady pace, and use their voice to show meaning, such as pausing at punctuation or changing tone for questions and dialogue.
Mastery sounds smooth, clear, and natural. Students do not race, guess, or read word by word with long pauses. Common trouble spots are skipping small words, ignoring punctuation, losing expression, and thinking fluency only means reading fast.
Ways to Teach It
- Have partners reread a familiar decodable passage three times, marking one star for accuracy, rate, and expression after each read.
- Ask, "How should your voice change when a character is excited, confused, or asking a question?" using one page from today’s book.
- Listen to each student read 100 words from a familiar text and note errors, pace, and expression on a simple checklist.
- Use a lunch menu, class announcement, or weather report and let students practice reading it like a clear speaker on the intercom.
Plan a Lesson for CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.4b
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Related Standards
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.3.4b
Read on-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.2.4b
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- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.4.4b
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- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.5.4b
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