Fourth Grade Reading Skills
Fourth Grade Reading Skills
- Reads orally with fluency based on rate, intonation, phrasing, and naturalness
- Self-corrects when reading miscues
- Reads fluently with understanding
- Utilizes prior knowledge
- Extends word patterns (e.g., prefixes, suffixes, inflectional endings)
- Identifies/spells frequently-used words correctly
- Expands sight vocabulary
- Identifies multiple meanings of words
- Recognizes synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, and compound words
- Uses figurative language/sound devices (e.g., rhyming, alliteration, onomatopoeia)
- Recognizes spelling patterns and phonetic generalizations
- Differentiates between contractions and possessives
- Decodes unknown words using the three-cueing system (e.g., semantics/context meaning, syntax/sentence structure, graphophonic/sound-symbol correspondence)
- Identifies analogies
- Summarizes information
- Utilizes visual aids to completely understand the passage (e.g., picture, list, table, chart, graph)
- Identifies and applies knowledge of organizational patterns (e.g., sequence, cause and effect, comparison/contrast)
- Identifies and summarizes main idea and supporting details
- Makes predictions, draws conclusions, and infers meaning
- Retells a story
- Describes story elements (e.g., characters, setting, plot, theme, mood/tone, conflict and solution)
- Skims and scans to locate key information
- Rereads to determine meaning
- Utilizes parts of book (e.g., table of contents, title page, index, glossary, headings and captions)
- Identifies and utilizes variety of resource texts (e.g., dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, atlas, computer)
- Identifies the author’s purpose (e.g., inform, entertain, persuade, describe)
- Understands the meaning of passage from a selection
- Knows the differences among the genres of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and plays
- Connects literature to real-life situations
- Interprets figurative language/literary devices (e.g., similes, metaphors, personification, idioms)
- Identifies fact and opinion
- Identifies the author’s position (author’s personal view)
- Identifies informative and persuasive passages
- Follows the directions in a passage
- Explains importance of correct sequence of activities in a procedure
- Interprets specialized vocabulary
- Identifies information which provides additional clarity (e.g., bold-faced print, illustrations, italics)
- Locates and applies appropriate information (e.g., phone books, manuals, order forms)
- Interprets graphic aides in a passage
- Follows multi-step directions
- Listens to and comprehends oral reading
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