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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... audiences. So, have fun with these passages. Read them with your students and read them again. Be assured that if you regularly have your students read and perform the texts in this book, you will go a long way to develop fluent readers ...
... audiences. So, have fun with these passages. Read them with your students and read them again. Be assured that if you regularly have your students read and perform the texts in this book, you will go a long way to develop fluent readers ...
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... audience. The magic of the performance will give students the motivation to want to practice their assigned texts. Performance. Not. Memorization. Remember that the key to developing fluency is guided oral and silent reading practice ...
... audience. The magic of the performance will give students the motivation to want to practice their assigned texts. Performance. Not. Memorization. Remember that the key to developing fluency is guided oral and silent reading practice ...
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... audiences if the content is something they are also studying. Keep in mind that many teachers of younger students cover Laura Ingalls Wilder, Abraham Lincoln, Lewis and Clark, American Indians, and the Civil War whether it is ...
... audiences if the content is something they are also studying. Keep in mind that many teachers of younger students cover Laura Ingalls Wilder, Abraham Lincoln, Lewis and Clark, American Indians, and the Civil War whether it is ...
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... audience identify the roles played by the readers. . Practice for the reader's theater should consist of coached repeated readings that lead to a smooth, fluent presentation. J. IntroductivmMMMF'WY — Introduction Written by Dr. Timothy ...
... audience identify the roles played by the readers. . Practice for the reader's theater should consist of coached repeated readings that lead to a smooth, fluent presentation. J. IntroductivmMMMF'WY — Introduction Written by Dr. Timothy ...
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... audiences. So, have fun with these passages. Read them with your students and read them again. Be assured that if ... audience within the school. (You could pa sign-up sheet in the teachers' lounge and ask for teachers who are wflling ...
... audiences. So, have fun with these passages. Read them with your students and read them again. Be assured that if ... audience within the school. (You could pa sign-up sheet in the teachers' lounge and ask for teachers who are wflling ...
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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