Kentucky Reading and Writing RF.K.4.a

ELAKindergartenReading Foundational Skills

The Standard

RF.K.4: Read fluently (accuracy, speed, and prosody) on grade-level to support comprehension.

Read decodable text with purpose and understanding.

Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Fluency

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students read short texts made from letter patterns and words they have learned. They read to find out what happens, then tell someone about it.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student sounds out unfamiliar words instead of guessing from a picture. After reading, they answer a question about the text and point to the words that support their answer.
Common Misconceptions: Some children guess a sentence from the picture or its first letter. Others sound out every word but cannot tell who did what.
How to Assess It: Hand each child a card reading “Sam sat on Pat” and ask them to read it aloud, tell who sat on Pat, and point to the words that show it.

Lesson moves

Give pairs word cards for Sam sat on Pat; have them build and read the sentence, then act it out with paper figures.
Ask children to read Sam sat on Pat, then tell a partner who sat and point to the name.
Set out three decodable sentence cards and matching pictures; children read a card before choosing its picture.
At a pretend pet clinic, give children a note reading Pup got cut; they read it and tell the vet what happened.

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