Common Core Standards: (RF.1.4)-Read with Sufficient accuracy
and fluency to support comprehension. (RF.1.4a)-Read on-level
text with purpose and understanding. (RF.1.4b)-Read on-level
text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on
successive readings. (RF.1.4c)-Use context to confirm or self-
correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as
necessary. This quarter we are working on Reading Fluency, which
is the ability to read a text accurately and quickly. When
fluent readers read silently, they recognize words
automatically. They group words quickly to help them gain
meaning from what they read. Fluent readers read aloud with
little effort and with expression. Their reading sounds natural,
as if they are speaking. Readers who have not yet developed
fluency read slowly, word by word. Their oral reading is choppy.
Fluency is important because it provides a bridge between word
recognition and comprehension. Because fluent readers do not
have to concentrate on decoding (sounding out) the