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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... Honor, Country: Excerpts from Douglas MacArthur's Farewell to West Point, May 1962 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 America's Voices for Equality . . . . . . © Shell Education #50113iBuilding ...
... Honor, Country: Excerpts from Douglas MacArthur's Farewell to West Point, May 1962 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 America's Voices for Equality . . . . . . © Shell Education #50113iBuilding ...
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... honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.” ? l l l i _4_ America—An Overview From the Months and Pens ...
... honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.” ? l l l i _4_ America—An Overview From the Months and Pens ...
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... honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.” Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933–1945 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, our 32nd president, was elected four ...
... honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.” Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933–1945 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, our 32nd president, was elected four ...
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... honored dead we take increased devotion to that 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 ...
... honored dead we take increased devotion to that 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 ...
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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Address American army Assassination Background Information battle believe called Carl Sandburg cause Chief citizens Civil coming Confederate Constitution cont created dead dedicated died equal feel first Fluency through Practice four Franklin Delano Roosevelt freedom friends Gettysburg give hand Happy hard hear heart honor hope Inauguration Independence James Jesse John justice keep Kennedy King lady land laws Liberty Lincoln live look March Master meaning move Narrator never North November Owens Parks peace poem Practice and Performance president Promise Reader reader’s theater reading remember Shell Education slave soldiers song South Speech stand talk teachers texts Thanks things Union United Voices wish woman women