🔤 Foundational Skills: Fluency Practice (Grade 4)

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Read prose and poetry orally with accuracy, rate and expression on successive readings.

1. Read three times; record words per minute: ““We can do this,” whispered Jamal, though his knees were shaking.”

2. Read three times; record words per minute: “The lighthouse stood alone on the rocky point, its great lamp sweeping the dark sea.”

3. Read three times; record words per minute: “Long ago, riders of the Pony Express galloped across the plains to carry the mail.”

4. Read three times; record words per minute: “Bees buzzed busily between the blossoms, their legs heavy with golden pollen.”

Answer key: 1) fluency practice · 2) fluency practice · 3) fluency practice · 4) fluency practice

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Free Grade 4 English worksheet (Common Core RF.4.4.b): read prose and poetry orally with accuracy, rate and expression on successive readings. Skill: Read prose and poetry orally with accuracy, rate and expression on successive readings. Level: Grade 4 — also suits Year 5 (UK).

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CCSS RF.4.4.b: Read prose and poetry orally with accuracy, rate and expression on successive readings
Works as a morning-work page, a centre/station activity, homework or an early-finisher task.

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Read prose and poetry orally with accuracy, rate and expression on successive readings.

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