CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.5.4c
The Standard
Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts
What This Standard Means
Students need to notice when a word they read does not look right, sound right, or make sense. They should use the sentence, nearby sentences, and the topic to check the word and its meaning. If needed, they reread and fix it without waiting for the teacher.
Mastery looks like a student pausing, rereading, trying a better word, and explaining what clue helped. Many students either skip the word, guess from the first letter, or keep reading even when meaning breaks down. Others can decode the word but miss that it does not fit the passage.
Ways to Teach It
- Give pairs a short passage with five swapped words, and have them highlight, reread, and replace each word using context clues.
- Ask students to write: What did you do the last time a sentence stopped making sense while you were reading?
- During independent reading, listen to one paragraph and ask the student to fix one miscued word using the sentence.
- Use a restaurant menu or game directions and have students use surrounding words to correct a misread item or instruction.
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Related Standards
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.4c
Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.4.4c
Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.2.4c
Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.3.4c
Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.