South Dakota ELA 4.RF.4.b
The Standard
- 4.RF.4
- Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
Read grade-appropriate texts in a variety of genres orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and prosody (stress, phrasing, intonation, and expression).
South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students read fourth-grade stories, poems, and nonfiction aloud. They get the words right, keep a steady pace, and use pauses and expression to show meaning.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student reads a new passage smoothly and corrects a misread word. They pause at natural breaks and change their voice for a question or a character's feelings.
Common Misconceptions
- Some students think fluent reading means reading as fast as possible, so they skip small words. Others pause at every line break, even when the sentence continues, or read dialogue in a flat voice.
How to Assess It
- Give each student an unfamiliar fourth-grade story paragraph with one line of dialogue and a question. As they read aloud, mark missed words, rushed or halting phrases, and whether their voice fits the question.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a printed poem to mark phrase breaks with slashes, then have them read it aloud while a partner follows the marks.
Write 'When the rain stopped, the creek was still rising.' Ask pairs where to pause and which word to stress, then compare readings.
Play voice match: students read dialogue cards aloud, and partners guess whether the speaker is asking, warning, or joking.
Post a short school announcement and have students record a clear reading for classmates, with pauses at commas and emphasis on key details.
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Related Standards
- 5.RF.4.b
The 5th Grade version of this standard.
- 1.RF.4.b
Read grade-appropriate text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and prosody (stress, phrasing, intonation, and expression) on consecutive readings.
- K.RF.4.b
Read grade-appropriate texts orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and prosody (stress, phrasing, intonation and expression) on consecutive readings.
- 3.RF.4.b
Read grade-appropriate texts in a variety of genres with accuracy, appropriate rate, and prosody (stress, phrasing, intonation, and expression).
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