South Dakota ELA 4.RF.1

ELA4th GradeReading Foundational Skills

The Standard

There is not a grade 4 standard for this concept. Please see preceding grades for more information.

South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: There is no new grade 4 print concept to teach. If a student needs review, check whether they follow words in reading order and can tell a letter from a word.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student points to each word while reading a short passage and moves to the correct next line. They can identify a single letter and a whole word on the page.
Common Misconceptions: Some students point to each letter instead of each word. Others lose their place when a sentence continues on the next line.
How to Assess It: Give a student a four-line passage. Ask them to point to each word as they read, then circle one word and underline one letter.

Lesson moves

Give a student word cards from a printed sentence; have them rebuild the sentence and point to each word while reading.
Write 'the dog ran' and 'thedogran'; ask, 'How do you know where each word starts and ends?'
Play Word or Letter: show cards with 'm,' 'map,' and 'maps,' and have students sort them.
Give a student a printed lunch menu; ask them to follow one line with a finger and circle a meal name.

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