Building Fluency Through Practice and Performance: American HistoryBuilding Fluency Through Practice and Performance: American History sets the stage for teaching fluency with this collection of reading texts coauthored and compiled by fluency expert Timothy Rasinski. Featuring various genres of texts including poems, songs, scripts, documents, and other material, this resource will help develop proficient and fluent readers. As readers regularly read and perform these American history related texts or passages, they improve decoding, fluency, interpretation, and comprehension. Students will revisit the past through the voices of history including James W.C. Pennington, former slave, Carl Sandburg, and John F. Kennedy. Background information, performance suggestions, a section on how to use the texts, and a Teacher Resource CD including digital copies of the fluency texts are included. |
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... caused problems with his term as the tenth president. He reflects on this issue in the following quotation: “If the tide of defamation and abuse shall turn, and my administration come to be praised, future vice presidents who may ...
... caused problems with his term as the tenth president. He reflects on this issue in the following quotation: “If the tide of defamation and abuse shall turn, and my administration come to be praised, future vice presidents who may ...
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... cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these I dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that All: government of the people ...
... cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these I dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that All: government of the people ...
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... causes of Revolution W Their teacher think Of thing basal On thei They brains Wrote this p After some who were studying the American rote this piece. suggested they l i 1 J 4A reader's theater for six voices: three narrators (N) and. War ...
... causes of Revolution W Their teacher think Of thing basal On thei They brains Wrote this p After some who were studying the American rote this piece. suggested they l i 1 J 4A reader's theater for six voices: three narrators (N) and. War ...
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... causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights That among these are Life, Liberty, and the ...
... causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights That among these are Life, Liberty, and the ...
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Contents
Americas Civil War 57 | |
The Early Twentieth Century 86 | |
Americas Voices for Equality 96 | |
Modern Times 137 | |
Americas Songs 164 | |
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Building Fluency Through Practice & Performance: Grade 6 Timothy Rasinski,Lorraine Griffith Limited preview - 2008 |
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