📚 Fluency G4U1W4D4

  • Due No Due Date
  • Points 5

🎯Objective: Read grade level text with purpose and understanding and can read with proper volume, expression, phrasing,  & accuracy.

Success Criteria: I can read with varied volume, expression, phrasing and accuracy-working towards earning a 4 in all areas on the fluency rubric.

 

If you need to refresh the fluency skill, re-watch this video. (Closed Captions are available on the video if you want them. Select the CC button to turn them on or off). 

If the video doesn't play, click this link Links to an external site..

 

Directions:

  1. Poetry is an excellent way to practice phrasing. Shel Silverstein is favorite poet. Read the poem "Smart"  below. As you do so, remember the skill you are working on. Make sure to practice using that skill as you read. 
  2. Keep in mind the phrasing & accuracy rubric. Your goal is to get a 4.

 

Phrasing Rubric

  1. Reads in a monotone with little sense of boundaries; frequently reads word-by-word.
  2. Frequently reads in two- and three- word phrases, giving the impression of choppy reading; improper stress and intonation fail to mark ends of sentences and clauses. 
  3. Reads with a mixture of run-ons, mid-sentence pauses for breath, and some choppiness, reasonable stress and intonation. 
  4. Generally reads with good phrasing, mostly in clause and sentence units, with adequate attention to expression.

Accuracy Rubric

  1. Read with 6 or more errors
  2. Read with 4-5 errors
  3. Read with 2-3 errors
  4. Read with 0-1 errors

 

Smart

By Shel Silverstein - A Light in the Attic

 

My dad game me one dollar bill

'Cause I'm his smartest son,

And I swapped it for two shiny quarters 

'Cause two is more than one!

 

And then I took the quarters 

And traded them to Lou

For three dimes -- I guess he don't know

That three is more than two!

 

Just then, along came old blind Bates

And just 'cause he can't see

He gave me four nickels for my three dimes, 

And four is more than three!

 

And I took the Nickels to Hiram Coombs

Down at the seed-feed store,

And the fool game me five pennies for them,

And five is more than four!

 

And then I went and showed my dad,

And he got red in the cheeks

And close his eyes and shook his head--

Too proud of me to speak!

 

 

0