Primary Source Fluency Activities: Expanding & Preserving the UnionFeaturing letters, speeches, songs and poems including Waiting for the Pony Express and Grant's Memoirs, this book provides primary sources and activities to help teach important fluency strategies. While discovering historical people and events during the period of America's expansion, students make content-area connections, develop fluent and meaningful oral reading, and develop vocabulary and word decoding skills. Included with each text is a history connection, a vocabulary connection, and extension ideas. 192pp. |
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... allows, be sure to complete these activity sheets with your students. Makes you fat little Look away! Lo away! Look away! Dixie Land. Den DOG it down and SCl'aIOD granule. To Dixie land I'm bound to tra . I onk away! look away! I 00k ...
... allows, be sure to complete these activity sheets with your students. Makes you fat little Look away! Lo away! Look away! Dixie Land. Den DOG it down and SCl'aIOD granule. To Dixie land I'm bound to tra . I onk away! look away! I 00k ...
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... allows for a lot of reading time by all students rather than single students reading while everyone else listens. Cumulative. Choral. Reading. This is a special type of choral reading where one student begins reading. Then, at ...
... allows for a lot of reading time by all students rather than single students reading while everyone else listens. Cumulative. Choral. Reading. This is a special type of choral reading where one student begins reading. Then, at ...
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... Allow time for the students to practice the song several times. You may want to play recorded copies of the song for the students as well during this practice period. 6. When all the groups feel prepared, have them perform a reading of ...
... Allow time for the students to practice the song several times. You may want to play recorded copies of the song for the students as well during this practice period. 6. When all the groups feel prepared, have them perform a reading of ...
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... allow students time in class to practice their cumulative readings of the text. 6. Arrange ahead of time to have each group present their reading to another class in the school. i My Country 'Tis of Thee (cont) ( History Connection ...
... allow students time in class to practice their cumulative readings of the text. 6. Arrange ahead of time to have each group present their reading to another class in the school. i My Country 'Tis of Thee (cont) ( History Connection ...
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... allows, arrange for students to visit other classes and teach the other stanzas of the song. J. ' Encourage students to analyze the other stanzas in the poem. Why is only the first verse sung? Is it really the best one? Have the class ...
... allows, arrange for students to visit other classes and teach the other stanzas of the song. J. ' Encourage students to analyze the other stanzas in the poem. Why is only the first verse sung? Is it really the best one? Have the class ...
Contents
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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 |
Primary Source Fluency Activities: Expanding & Preserving the Union Wendy Conklin Limited preview - 2005 |
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