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📖 2nd Grade · ELARF.2.4bUnit 1: Reading routines, fluency & vowel teams

Reading with expression

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🎯 Objective: Students read orally with accuracy, appropriate rate and expression.

Lesson outline

  1. Model robot reading vs fluent reading of the same page.
  2. Echo read with attention to punctuation and dialogue.
  3. Partners do three repeated readings of a short passage and time them.
  4. Exit: one-minute read to the teacher.

Lesson 3 of 5 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

RF.2.4b

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 2 — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Read grade-level text accurately and fluently
  • Decode long-vowel teams and common spelling patterns

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Two-syllable words & vowel teams⏲️ Stopwatch📚 All 2nd Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Reading routines, fluency & vowel teams”

  1. Building a reading life
  2. Long vowel teams review
  3. Reading with expression
  4. Self-correcting
  5. High-frequency words

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