CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.3.4b
The Standard
Read on-level prose and poetry 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 reread grade-level stories and poems aloud so their reading becomes smooth, correct, and expressive. They should notice punctuation, dialogue, line breaks, and sentence meaning, then use their voice to match the text instead of reading word by word.
Mastery sounds like mostly accurate reading at a steady pace, with phrasing that shows understanding. Students usually get stuck when they rush, ignore punctuation, read in a flat voice, or spend so much effort decoding that expression disappears.
Ways to Teach It
- Have pairs practice a short poem three times, marking pauses, underlining strong words, then performing it for another pair.
- Ask students, “What should your voice do here, and what clue in the text tells you that?” after reading a dialogue line.
- Use a one-minute reread of a familiar paragraph and note accuracy, pace, and one expression goal on a sticky note.
- Connect fluency to audiobook narration by playing a short clip, then having students copy the narrator’s pacing with the printed text.
Plan a Lesson for CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.3.4b
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Related Standards
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.4b
Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.2.4b
Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.4.4b
Read on-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.5.4b
Read on-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings