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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... response to the need we have heard from teachers for good texts for teaching reading fluency within the content areas. Within the past several years, reading fluency has become recognized as an essential element in elementary and middle ...
... response to the need we have heard from teachers for good texts for teaching reading fluency within the content areas. Within the past several years, reading fluency has become recognized as an essential element in elementary and middle ...
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... response to the need we have heard from teachers for oodt tsf t hln readln fl ncy lthlnth ntentarea.Withlnthcpzrst ' ' ' ' several);ear:rce:dingglluertcygltasul:coonlie recogneizfdasanesssentialclemcntin - D r. elementary and middle ...
... response to the need we have heard from teachers for oodt tsf t hln readln fl ncy lthlnth ntentarea.Withlnthcpzrst ' ' ' ' several);ear:rce:dingglluertcygltasul:coonlie recogneizfdasanesssentialclemcntin - D r. elementary and middle ...
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... Response Call and response is a type of choral reading. When using call and response, one student reads a portion of the text and then the class (or a group of students within the class) responds by reading the refrain, reading the next ...
... Response Call and response is a type of choral reading. When using call and response, one student reads a portion of the text and then the class (or a group of students within the class) responds by reading the refrain, reading the next ...
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... response method. Preparation. ' Make an overhead transparency of the poem, “America the Beautiful” (page 17). ' Copy “America the Beautiful ”—Call and Response (page 18) for each student. Fluency. Suggestions. and. Activities. You may want ...
... response method. Preparation. ' Make an overhead transparency of the poem, “America the Beautiful” (page 17). ' Copy “America the Beautiful ”—Call and Response (page 18) for each student. Fluency. Suggestions. and. Activities. You may want ...
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... Response R1: All: R2: All: 0 beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to ...
... Response R1: All: R2: All: 0 beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to ...
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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