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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... pike, and saber. To s! To arms! To arms! In Dixie! Shoulder pressing close to shoulder, Let the odds make each heart bolder! To arms! To arms! To arms! In Dixie! Repeat Chorus How the South's great heart 'ces At your cannon's ringing ...
... pike, and saber. To s! To arms! To arms! In Dixie! Shoulder pressing close to shoulder, Let the odds make each heart bolder! To arms! To arms! To arms! In Dixie! Repeat Chorus How the South's great heart 'ces At your cannon's ringing ...
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... Pike's Peak in Colorado in 1893 with a group of fellow teachers. They hired a prairie wagon to take them there. Close to the top of the peak, they had to leave the wagon behind and ride the rest of the way on mules. She was so inspired ...
... Pike's Peak in Colorado in 1893 with a group of fellow teachers. They hired a prairie wagon to take them there. Close to the top of the peak, they had to leave the wagon behind and ride the rest of the way on mules. She was so inspired ...
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Wendy Conklin. The. Trip. West. Objective. \/ Students will read “Sweet Betsy from Pike” using call-and-response method. Preparation. ' Make a transparency of the song, “Sweet Betsy from Pike” (page 41). ' Copy “Sweet Betsy from Pike ”—Call ...
Wendy Conklin. The. Trip. West. Objective. \/ Students will read “Sweet Betsy from Pike” using call-and-response method. Preparation. ' Make a transparency of the song, “Sweet Betsy from Pike” (page 41). ' Copy “Sweet Betsy from Pike ”—Call ...
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... Pike” using the information provided below. J. For most nineteenth century pioneers, making the trip to the West was very difficult. They recorded their hardships in journals and diaries. Songs were written from these journals. This song ...
... Pike” using the information provided below. J. For most nineteenth century pioneers, making the trip to the West was very difficult. They recorded their hardships in journals and diaries. Songs were written from these journals. This song ...
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Wendy Conklin. Sweet Betsy from Pike Oh don't you remember sweet Betsy from Pike, Who crossed the wide prairie with her lover Ike, With two yoke of oxen, a big yellow dog, A tall shanghai rooster, and one spotted hog? Chorus: Singing too ...
Wendy Conklin. Sweet Betsy from Pike Oh don't you remember sweet Betsy from Pike, Who crossed the wide prairie with her lover Ike, With two yoke of oxen, a big yellow dog, A tall shanghai rooster, and one spotted hog? Chorus: Singing too ...
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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 |
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