Increasing Fluency with High Frequency Word Phrases

Grade 1.

For your Common Core curriculum.

This resource helps teach students to recognize words, read phrases and passages with expression, improve fluency, and increase comprehension. Includes 20 lessons that target the three major components of fluency - accuracy, reading rate, and expression. Strategies for recognizing mood, purpose, emotion, and other interpretive skills will enhance expression. Fluency assessment rubric and oral reading fluency strategies are included to improve and monitor progress. Oral readings on the accompanying CD provide fluency models for students and aid English language learners with auditory-visual association. Research based and correlates to the standards of 50 states. Book includes audio CD with oral reading of the phrase list and reading selection from each lesson and a teacher resource CD. 96 pages.

CCSS Product Alignment

RF.1.2b Orally produce single-syllable words by blending sounds (phonemes), including consonant blends.

RF.1.2c Isolate and pronounce initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in spoken single-syllable words.

RF.1.3a Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs.

RF.1.3b Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.

RF.1.3d Use knowledge that every syllable must have a vowel sound to determine the number of syllables in a printed word.

RF.1.3e Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables.

RF.1.3g Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.

RF.1.4a Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.

RF.1.4b Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

SL.1.2 Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

L.1.4c Identify frequently occurring root words (e.g., look) and their inflectional forms (e.g., looks, looked, looking).