Reading Lab #6: Fluency
Class Syllabus – Grades 6-8
Wednesday, December 14, 2022
Objective: Students will be able to read a passage with appropriate speed, accuracy, and emotion.
Essential Questions:
- Why does poetry utilize punctuation freely? How can this help us to practice our fluency?
- What is enjambment and how can this challenge our reading fluency?
- Why is it important to read accurately, swiftly, and with emotion?
Enduring Understandings:
- Punctuation can help us to regulate our speed and our emotion when reading various texts.
- Enjambment is when the poet plays with line structure, starting a thought on one line and continuing it on the next.
- It is important to read accurately, swiftly, and with emotion because then, you will sound more professional and confident as a reader.
Standards:
| Grade 6: | Grade 7: | Grade 8: |
| 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. | 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. | 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:
- Please print the following documents: [in Just-] by E. E. Cummings | Poetry Foundation
- Pen or pencil
