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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... feel and words that don't). Through sorting-and-categorizing activities, students get repeated exposure to words, examining the words differently with each sort. Choose words from a text that lend themselves to extended word family ...
... feel and words that don't). Through sorting-and-categorizing activities, students get repeated exposure to words, examining the words differently with each sort. Choose words from a text that lend themselves to extended word family ...
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... feel that all their practice is for nothing. Instead, be creative and fun as you plan these presentations. Invite different guests or whole classes in to hear your presentations. Younger classes make great audiences if the content is ...
... feel that all their practice is for nothing. Instead, be creative and fun as you plan these presentations. Invite different guests or whole classes in to hear your presentations. Younger classes make great audiences if the content is ...
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... Feel free to sing if you are musically talented! 4. Tell students that one group of them will be reading this song on the intercom for the entire student body. 5. Place students into groups of eight to read the song together using ...
... Feel free to sing if you are musically talented! 4. Tell students that one group of them will be reading this song on the intercom for the entire student body. 5. Place students into groups of eight to read the song together using ...
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... feeling ' thoroughfare—a passageway ' liberating strife—a fight for freedom ' alabaster—whitish color used for statues ' halcyon—calm or peaceful ' enameled—colorful ' lavished—gave generously | ' nobler—showing great character ...
... feeling ' thoroughfare—a passageway ' liberating strife—a fight for freedom ' alabaster—whitish color used for statues ' halcyon—calm or peaceful ' enameled—colorful ' lavished—gave generously | ' nobler—showing great character ...
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... feel about the way you read the passage? Was the passage difficult for you? ' Was your reading choppy or smooth? Did you read slowly or at a quick pace? Did you make many mistakes? How do you feel about your use of expression? Waiting ...
... feel about the way you read the passage? Was the passage difficult for you? ' Was your reading choppy or smooth? Did you read slowly or at a quick pace? Did you make many mistakes? How do you feel about your use of expression? Waiting ...
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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