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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Page 9
... difficult to use at the beginning of the year. Instead, focus on the pieces that are rewritten or pieces where the original reading level is lower. Unfortunately for students today, we write differently now than the people of the past ...
... difficult to use at the beginning of the year. Instead, focus on the pieces that are rewritten or pieces where the original reading level is lower. Unfortunately for students today, we write differently now than the people of the past ...
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... difficult words, discuss them within the context of the text. JL. ' spacious—having lots of space or room ' amber—a brownish-yellow color ' impassioned—having a strong or passionate feeling ' thoroughfare—a passageway ' liberating strife ...
... difficult words, discuss them within the context of the text. JL. ' spacious—having lots of space or room ' amber—a brownish-yellow color ' impassioned—having a strong or passionate feeling ' thoroughfare—a passageway ' liberating strife ...
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... difficult words, discuss them within the context of the text. JL. ' native—original, where someone was born ' rills—small brooks or creeks ' rapture—joy ' mortal—human ' partake—to share or take part. 1_. Extension Ideas ' Samuel Francis ...
... difficult words, discuss them within the context of the text. JL. ' native—original, where someone was born ' rills—small brooks or creeks ' rapture—joy ' mortal—human ' partake—to share or take part. 1_. Extension Ideas ' Samuel Francis ...
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... difficult words, discuss them within the context of the text. ' hail'd—hailed; saluted or honored as being very special ' perilous—dangerous ' ramparts—the walls that encircle and protect people inside ' gallantly—bravely ' haughty ...
... difficult words, discuss them within the context of the text. ' hail'd—hailed; saluted or honored as being very special ' perilous—dangerous ' ramparts—the walls that encircle and protect people inside ' gallantly—bravely ' haughty ...
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... difficult words, discuss them within the context of the text. ' basting—beating ' flint and triggers—ammunition and guns ' yonder—distant ' ardently—eagerly ' marrow—the spirit or heart ' toil—work ' tabor—a small drum ' martial—warlike ...
... difficult words, discuss them within the context of the text. ' basting—beating ' flint and triggers—ammunition and guns ' yonder—distant ' ardently—eagerly ' marrow—the spirit or heart ' toil—work ' tabor—a small drum ' martial—warlike ...
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 |
Common terms and phrases
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