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Grade 4, Reading Std Fluency III-B: Demonstrate fluency while constructing meaning with a variety of texts. B. Continue to develop automaticity with high frequency vocabulary in oral and written language

Lesson Plans: High Frequency Words: Classroom Activities Dr. Jean Feldman offers suggestions for incorporating practice with sight words into daily classroom activities. Writing a Movie: Summarizing and Rereading a Film Script Writing a Movie develops skills in viewing, descriptive writing, and fluency. Students view a videotape or DVD of a film segment (5 to 10 minutes) that has a great deal of action and little or no dialogue. S After viewing the segment, students write a descriptive summary of the scene. Students then have an opportunity to improve their reading fluency as they reread their script expressively. Mind Reader Students will play a game that will help them recognize the word wall words. Students will be given clues to follow. Use this activity when you have about a month’s worth of words on your word wall.

Resources: Independent Reading Rubric: This page has a rubric for evaluating independent readers. Literacy Connections: Practice with Sight Words: Ideas for practicing sight words. Suggestions for English Language Learners (ELLs): (E/B=Entering/Beginning, D=Developing, E=Expanding) E/B: Read one's own writing and/or simple narrative texts and begin to produce phonemes appropriately; D: Read simple narrative and expository texts with some elements of appropriate voice and expression; E: Read narrative and expository texts with appropriate timing, voice, and expression. E/B: Recognize and produce English phonemes and morphemes students already know in simple phrases or sentences. D: Recognize and produce some frequently heard synonyms and homographs; E: Understand most frequently heard synonyms, antonyms, and homographs. E: Apply knowledge of roots and affixes to derive meaning from literature. E: Identify and interpret words with multiple meanings.
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