📚 Fluency G4U1W5D4

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

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

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

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Instructions:

1. Read the excerpt from Starting a Successful Business 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 smoothness & accuracy rubrics. Your goal is to get a 4. 

Smoothness Rubric

1. Makes frequent extended pauses, hesitations, false starts, sound-outs, repetitions, and/or multiple attempts. 
2. Experiences several "rough spots" in text where extended pauses or hesitations are more frequent and disruptive. 
3. Occasionally breaks smooth rhythm because of difficulties with specific words and/or structures. 
4. Generally reads smoothly with some breaks, but resolves word and structure difficulties quickly, usually through self-correction. 

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