Reading Lab #10: Fluency

Class Syllabus – Grades 6-8

Tuesday, February 28, 2022

Objective: Students will be able to read a passage with appropriate speed, accuracy, emotion.

Essential Questions:

1. Why might an author use diction?
2. What can diction tell us about literary characters and settings?
3. Why is it important to pay attention to diction for reading fluency?
4. Why is it important to pay attention to diction for reading comprehension?

Enduring Understandings:

1. Diction is used to convey an idea or point of view, or tell a story, in a more effective way.
2. The words associated with a literary character represent their ideals, values, and attitudes. Diction can also create a representation of a character’s outer appearance and/or inner state of mind for the reader. Similarly, words associated with a description of a place can represent the cultural or environmental elements of that place and time.
3. It’s important to pay attention to diction when reading to best determine how words and phrases should be expressed, or to raise one’s awareness of perhaps unconventional sentence structures.
4. It’s important to pay attention to diction for reading comprehension because it can suggest or imply story details that are not explicitly mentioned in the text.

Standards

Grade 6: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.Grade 7: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. Grade 8: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of grades 6-8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.

Materials:

• Pen or pencil
• Piece of paper
• Print pages 1-5 — up to section (70) — in the attached fluency reading: “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl