South Dakota ELA 5.RF.4.c

ELA5th GradeReading Foundational Skills

The Standard

Self-monitor reading for correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.

South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students notice when a word sounds wrong or a sentence stops making sense. They go back, check the word, and read the sentence again to see if it makes sense.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student pauses at “nocturnal,” checks its letters and nearby clues, then reads the sentence again. They can explain that the animal is active at night and point to the words that helped.
Common Misconceptions: Some students guess a word from its first letter and keep going, even when the sentence sounds odd. Others repeat the same words without checking what they mean.
How to Assess It: Show students: “The nocturnal owl rests during the day and hunts at night.” Ask them to say “nocturnal,” mark any part they reread, and write when the owl hunts.

Lesson moves

Give students a short passage and two sticky notes to mark a word they checked and a sentence they reread.
After a tricky paragraph, ask students to write: “I got stuck at __. I went back to __. Now I think __.”
In pairs, read a short passage aloud and earn a point for catching your own word mix-up and fixing it.
Give students board game instructions and have them reread unfamiliar words or confusing steps before explaining the rules to a partner.

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