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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... meaning. Be sure to not focus on reading the passage quickly. Fluency in reading has been defined by some as merely reading fast—this is an incorrect interpretation of fluency. We want to emphasize reading with expression and meaning ...
... meaning. Be sure to not focus on reading the passage quickly. Fluency in reading has been defined by some as merely reading fast—this is an incorrect interpretation of fluency. We want to emphasize reading with expression and meaning ...
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... meaning (comprehension) by reading with appropriate expression and phrasing. Readers develop fluency through guided practice and repeated readings—reading a ' text selection several times to the point where it can be expressed ...
... meaning (comprehension) by reading with appropriate expression and phrasing. Readers develop fluency through guided practice and repeated readings—reading a ' text selection several times to the point where it can be expressed ...
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... meaning as the foremost guiding principle. Students should practice reading to the punctuation as opposed to reading line-by-line. If you choose to divide the selections into parts, they should be divided with close attention to ...
... meaning as the foremost guiding principle. Students should practice reading to the punctuation as opposed to reading line-by-line. If you choose to divide the selections into parts, they should be divided with close attention to ...
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... meaning that the author attempts to convey or the meaning that the reader may wish to convey. Through oral interpretation of a text, readers can express joy, sadness, anger, surprise, or any of a variety of emotions. Help students learn ...
... meaning that the author attempts to convey or the meaning that the reader may wish to convey. Through oral interpretation of a text, readers can express joy, sadness, anger, surprise, or any of a variety of emotions. Help students learn ...
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... meanings and spellings. Brainstorm and list words that have similar meanings. Help students develop a deepened ... meaning. Through sortingL and-categorizing activities, students get repeated exposure to words, examining the words ...
... meanings and spellings. Brainstorm and list words that have similar meanings. Help students develop a deepened ... meaning. Through sortingL and-categorizing activities, students get repeated exposure to words, examining the words ...
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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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