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Critical Content/Concept Web

 * Unit Theme**: Storytelling
 * Conceptual Lens:** Perspective
 * Unit Length:** 4 weeks, done within context of developmentally appropriate text

Fluency is the ability to read accurately, at a reasonable rate. To become a fluent reader, you must learn to read aloud in phrases with little effort and with expression. At this early time in the year, you have not yet fully developed fluency and often sound choppy. On easier texts, you sometimes read too quickly, ignoring punctuation. Fluency is important as it acts as a bridge between your ability to decode words and your level of comprehension. If you, as a reader, do not have to focus much attention on articulating sounds aloud within a word, you can focus on the meaning of a text. As you are constantly being asked to make connections and read to learn, learning to read fluently is an essential part of your balanced literacy program. This unit will provide you with strategies and experiences from which to develop fluency and voice.
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To celebrate the progress you have made in terms of fluency, you will be asked to create 'files' of read alouds. You will illustrate these stories and scan them into a Keynote presentation. You will read and record the texts in a fluent voice. These files will be heard by younger, less experienced readers. Kindergarten and first grade teachers have requested that these samples of fluent reading be accessible to their students so that they may be exposed to what great reading sounds like.

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