Reading Smoothly and Self-Checking

Tricky words in context; read-along passages with phrasing; find the word that doesn't make sense, reread, and fix it.

Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.

What children learn in Level 6

Reading smoothly means reading words quickly and correctly, so your brain can think about what they mean.
Tricky words like though, cough, and laughter come up a lot. The more you read them, the faster you'll know them by sight.
Good readers notice when something doesn't make sense. If you read: The pilot landed on the runaway, stop! Look again at the word. Runway. That makes sense.
Punctuation tells you how to read. Pause at a comma. Let your voice go up at a question mark. Show feeling at an exclamation point.
Here's a story. Tap Read it to me to hear it, or read it yourself. Then read it aloud with expression, like a storyteller around a campfire.
Your turn! Tap the word that doesn't make sense: Owls hunt for nice at night.

Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:

4.F.F.1.a — Increase sight word vocabulary by reading regularly and irregularly spelled words in isolation and context with accuracy and automaticity.
4.F.F.1.b — Read a variety of unfamiliar grade-level texts with increasing automaticity.
4.F.F.1.c — Read a wide range of grade-level texts aloud with accurate prosody (phrasing, expression, juncture/pause, and intonation) to aid comprehension.
4.F.F.1.d — Self-correct while reading grade-level text (silently or aloud) to aid comprehension and fluency, rereading as necessary.