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Stage 1 Identify Desired Results Establish Goals: (G) MLR English Language Arts A2 Literacy Texts Grades Pre K-2 Students will apply their knowledge of phonemic awareness, vocabulary, and comprehension to read appropriate level texts accurately and fluently.

What understandings are desired? Students will understand that: (U) • Reading fluently engages an audience. • Reading fluently makes books more fun and easier to read.
 * Reading fluently results in the ability to decode and construct meaning and comprehend a text.

What essential questions will be considered? Essential Questions: (Q) • Why is it important to know how to read a text fluently? • When will it be important to captivate an audience while reading aloud?
 * Why is being motivated to read important in life?

Students will know: (K)
 * Fluent reading includes key components.
 * Choosing a developmentally appropriate text facilitates fluent reading.
 * There are a number of ways to foster fluency development.

Students will be able to: (S) • Recognize what fluent reading sounds like after hearing different poems read aloud by the teacher on a fluency evaluation form. • Analyze their ability to read fluently after listening to their own reading through a whisper phone using the fluency rubric. • Demonstrate an understanding of the fluency components by performing a readers' theatre script. • Transfer what they have learned about fluency in order to create a Keynote performance of a read aloud.
 * Use their knowledge of developmentally appropriate texts to choose book that will be used in their keynote performance.
 * Enjoy and critique the reading of a text at storylineonline.net to determine if the on-line reader is fluent using a fluency reflection evaluation form.

2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe