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English Language Arts and Literature (ELAL) Gr. 3

Organizing Idea: Fluency

Organizing Idea

FLUENCY 3Students apply fluency strategies and develop reading comprehension.

GR. 3 - ORGANIZING IDEA: FLUENCY

Comprehension and literary appreciation are improved by the ability to read a range of texts accurately, automatically, and with expression.

  Guiding Question: In what ways does fluency improve comprehension?

Learning Outcome: Students apply fluency strategies and develop reading comprehension.

Knowledge

Understanding

Skills & Procedures

Fluency develops over time with practice.

Fluent reading includes

  • accuracy
  • automaticity in word recognition
  • prosody (stress, expression, intonation, and pausing) in oral text
  • reading

Reading fluency involves accuracy, automaticity, and prosody to engage an audience or improve comprehension.

Demonstrate automaticity in reading complex words, phrases, and continuous text.

Read increasingly complex text with appropriate pace, word stress, phrasing, and pausing.

Read a variety of text forms with fluency and expression.

Knowledge

Understanding

Skills & Procedures

Comprehension is enhanced when high-frequency words are read in continuous text at an appropriate pace.

Fluent recognition of high-frequency words (the 300 learned in grades 1 and 2) supports effective and efficient reading comprehension.

Read the 300 high-frequency words learned in grades 1 and 2 fluently in continuous text.

 

Fluency