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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... preparation for authentic presentations. That way, not only does their fluency grow through careful repetition, but as the class discusses the pieces, the students' comprehension improves as well. Presentations. One of the most important ...
... preparation for authentic presentations. That way, not only does their fluency grow through careful repetition, but as the class discusses the pieces, the students' comprehension improves as well. Presentations. One of the most important ...
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... prepared script using their voices to bring text to life. Reader's theater has the following characteristics: 1. 2. 3. The script is always read and never memorized. Readers may be characters, narrators, or switch back and forth. The ...
... prepared script using their voices to bring text to life. Reader's theater has the following characteristics: 1. 2. 3. The script is always read and never memorized. Readers may be characters, narrators, or switch back and forth. The ...
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... Preparation. ' Make an overhead transparency of the poem, “America the Beautiful” (page 17). ' Copy “America the ... prepared, have them perform a reading of this song for the class. The class can decide which group of eight students ...
... Preparation. ' Make an overhead transparency of the poem, “America the Beautiful” (page 17). ' Copy “America the ... prepared, have them perform a reading of this song for the class. The class can decide which group of eight students ...
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... Preparation. ' Make an overhead transparency of the song, “America” (page 21). ' Copy “America ”—Cumulative Choral Reading (page 22) for each student. Fluency. Suggestions. and. Activities. You may want to complete the history and ...
... Preparation. ' Make an overhead transparency of the song, “America” (page 21). ' Copy “America ”—Cumulative Choral Reading (page 22) for each student. Fluency. Suggestions. and. Activities. You may want to complete the history and ...
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... Preparation. ' Make an overhead transparency of the song, “The Star Spangled Banner” (page 25). ' Copy “The Star ... prepared for a group cumulative choral-reading activity. This reading activity is to celebrate the beginning of baseball ...
... Preparation. ' Make an overhead transparency of the song, “The Star Spangled Banner” (page 25). ' Copy “The Star ... prepared for a group cumulative choral-reading activity. This reading activity is to celebrate the beginning of baseball ...
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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