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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... comes from a teacher. As your students practice reading the target text each week, alone, in small groups, or as an entire class, be sure to provide positive feedback about their reading. Help them develop a sense for reading the text ...
... comes from a teacher. As your students practice reading the target text each week, alone, in small groups, or as an entire class, be sure to provide positive feedback about their reading. Help them develop a sense for reading the text ...
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... come to your room to listen to your children perform. Have the children perform the targeted text as a group. Later ... comes to your room, you may also want to send your children to visit other adults and children in the building and ...
... come to your room to listen to your children perform. Have the children perform the targeted text as a group. Later ... comes to your room, you may also want to send your children to visit other adults and children in the building and ...
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... come hear a reading of this song from the War of 1812. Have students explain the background information about this song to their guests. Then, have reading pairs perform the song. Taking Up Arms (cont) 1 History Connection Introduce ...
... come hear a reading of this song from the War of 1812. Have students explain the background information about this song to their guests. Then, have reading pairs perform the song. Taking Up Arms (cont) 1 History Connection Introduce ...
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... come to your class to hear the reader's theater. F Waiting for the Pony Express (can!) History Connection Introduce #8187 Fluency Activities: Expanding & Preserving the Union 32 ©Shell Educational Publishing Pioneer Trails Lesson Plans ...
... come to your class to hear the reader's theater. F Waiting for the Pony Express (can!) History Connection Introduce #8187 Fluency Activities: Expanding & Preserving the Union 32 ©Shell Educational Publishing Pioneer Trails Lesson Plans ...
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... COMES!” Every neck is stretched further, and every eye strained wider. Away across the endless dead level of the prairie a black speck appears against the sky, and it is plain that it moves. Well, I should think so! In a second or two ...
... COMES!” Every neck is stretched further, and every eye strained wider. Away across the endless dead level of the prairie a black speck appears against the sky, and it is plain that it moves. Well, I should think so! In a second or two ...
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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