Primary Source Fluency Activities: Expanding & Preserving the Union: Expanding & Preserving the UnionFeaturing letters, speeches, songs, and poems, including Waiting for the Pony Express and Grant's Memoirs, this book uses primary sources and activities to help teach important fluency strategies. Students will discover the stories of such pivotal figures as Harriet Tubman, Lewis and Clark, Abraham Lincoln, and Sitting Bull. Developed by Dr. Timothy Rasinski, these activities are designed to develop fluent and meaningful oral reading, as well as vocabulary and word decoding skills. Each text includes a history connection, a vocabulary connection, and extension ideas to meet the diverse needs of every student in the social studies classroom. |
Contents
By Dr Timothy Rasinski 58 | 5 |
Lewis and Clark | 9 |
Fluency Strategy Descriptions 1314 | 13 |
The War of 1812 | 23 |
Pioneer Trails | 32 |
Slavery in America | 45 |
Civil War Is Coming | 72 |
Civil War Leaders | 85 |
Battles of the Civil | 95 |
James Madison | 115 |
Laura Ingalls Wilder | 126 |
Harriet Tubman | 134 |
Abraham Lincoln | 155 |
Robert E | 169 |
Ulysses S Grant | 180 |
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Primary Source Fluency Activities: Expanding & Preserving the Union Wendy Conklin Limited preview - 2005 |
Primary Source Fluency Activities: Expanding & Preserving the Union Wendy Conklin Limited preview - 2005 |
Common terms and phrases
America the Beautiful analyze and read arms Ask students audience echos bring the Jubilee California Trail Call and Response complete the history Connection Discuss unfamiliar context and vocabulary difficult words Discuss unfamiliar vocabulary Distribute copies drinking gourd echo reading Egypt’s land Extension Idea fluency activity Fluency Suggestions Follow the drinking Glory Hallelujah help students analyze historical context history and vocabulary History Connection Introduce Hurrah identifying the difficult Indians John Brown John Brown’s Body Laura Ingalls Wilder marching through Georgia Mas’r modeling fluent reading Moses Name ________________________________________________ perform piece fluently poem Pony Express possible words practice reading read the piece read the song Repeat Chorus Singing too-ral-li-oo-ral-li-oo-ral-li-ay Sitting Bull slaves Star Spangled Banner starting this fluency students read Suggestions and Activities Sweet Betsy Underground Railroad unfamiliar vocabulary encountered vocabulary activities Vocabulary Connection Discuss vocabulary will help Voice want to complete words are listed x x x