Scott Foresman Reading Street

Fluency Assessment Plan

Week 1 Assess Advanced students.
Week 2 Assess Strategic Intervention students.
This week assess On-Level students.
Week 4 Assess Strategic Intervention students.
Week 5 Assess any students you have not yet checked during this unit.

Set individual goals for students to enable them to reach the year-end goal.

Current Goal: 95–105 WCPM
Year-End Goal: 120 WCPM

To develop fluent readers, use Fluency Coach.

MORE READING FOR

Fluency

To practice fluency with text comprised of previously taught phonics elements and irregular words,
use Decodable
Reader 18.

Whole Group
Revisit the Question of the Week.

this week’s Leveled
Readers. See pp. 60f–60g for the small group lesson plan.

Reading

Group Time
Differentiated Instruction

Use pp. 85d–85h and
85k–85n.

Whole Group
Use pp. 85b–85c.

Language Arts

Grouping Options

Test

Selection Test,
Unit 4;
Benchmark Test, Unit 4

Reteach/
Review

3.3 379b, DI•55;
3.4 85b, DI•54;
3.5 161;
3.6 407b, DI•56

PB: 3.1 133, 137,
138; 3.2 23, 27, 28,
36, 46, 56, 143, 147, 148

Practice

TE: 3.3 354–355, 3.4 60–61, 3.6 380–381

Introduce/
Teach

Generalize

	Recognize and form generalizations.
	Understand how to paraphrase.

Access Content Reteach the skill by reviewing the Picture It! lesson on generalize in the ELL Teaching Guide, p. 121.

Practice Book 3.2 p. 28

with | without Answers

CHARACTERIZATION

Fluency

Model Reread "Catching the Fire" on p. 60m. Explain that you will use characterization as you read the selection. Model for students as you read.

Choral Reading Read aloud p. 72. Have students notice how your voice changes as you use characterization to read the dialogue. Have students practice as a class, doing three choral readings of p. 72.

Model Model oral reading. Read aloud p. 74. Have students notice how you change your voice as you read the dialogue depending on which character is talking. Practice as a class by reading this page three times orally.

Choral Reading Have students choral read "Everybody Needs a Rock, Rule Number 2" on p. 81, three times. Students should read the poem with rhythm, pretending they are the author.

Assessment
Individual Reading Rate Use the Fluency Assessment Plan and do a one-minute timed reading of either selection from this week to assess students in Week 3. Pay special attention to this week’s skill, characterization. Provide corrective feedback for each student.

Check Fluency WCPM

As students reread, monitor their progress toward their individual fluency goals. Current Goal: 95–105 words correct per minute. End-of-Year Goal: 120 words correct per minute.

If… students cannot read fluently at a rate of 95–105 words correct per minute,
then… make sure students practice with text at their independent level. Provide additional fluency practice, pairing nonfluent readers with fluent readers.

If… students already read at 120 words correct per minute,
then… they need not reread three to four times.

RETEACH

Generalize

TEACH

Review the skill instruction for generalizations on p. 60. Students can complete
Practice Book 3.2, p. 28 on their own, or you can complete it as a class. Point out
that one or more boxes in the chart will be empty. Students will need to provide the
information to fill them in.

ASSESS

Read the last paragraph on p. 66 aloud. Ask students what generalization they can
make about the information in the paragraph. (Nobody ever tried to steal the money
from the cash drawer.)

For additional instruction for generalize, see DI•54.

Paraphrase

TEACH

To paraphrase is to restate a sentence or paragraph in your own words. When you
paraphrase, it is important to keep the meaning and ideas of the original statement.

When you paraphrase, think about what the writer said and then retell it in your
own words.
When you paraphrase, be sure never to copy the exact words from a sentence
or passage.

Read aloud paragraph 3 on p. 67, and guide students in paraphrasing the last
sentence. (Possible response: He put labels on the rocks that told what kind of
rocks they were and where they were found.)

ASSESS

Have students pick another paragraph from the story to paraphrase. (Responses
will vary; check that students have not used the exact words in their paraphrase.)