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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... 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. Students become more fluent when they read the ...
... 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. Students become more fluent when they read the ...
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... give yo u t h e h isto meal 00 ntext of t h e piece. to arms. It did inspire Confederate soldiers hey went to battle singing it. Soon it became the most Imed song of the Confederacy. Civil War Is Coming lesson Plans To Arms in Dixie (Mo ...
... give yo u t h e h isto meal 00 ntext of t h e piece. to arms. It did inspire Confederate soldiers hey went to battle singing it. Soon it became the most Imed song of the Confederacy. Civil War Is Coming lesson Plans To Arms in Dixie (Mo ...
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... Give each student a copy of “America the Beautiful ”—Call and Response (page 18) and read it aloud together (choral reading) several times. Model reading lines with changes in pitch, tone, and timing to achieve different effects ...
... Give each student a copy of “America the Beautiful ”—Call and Response (page 18) and read it aloud together (choral reading) several times. Model reading lines with changes in pitch, tone, and timing to achieve different effects ...
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... Give each student a copy of The Pony Express Reader's Theater (pages 35—38). There are 10 parts in this reader's theater. Assign parts to students by having them volunteer or audition. Have students highlight their parts. If you have ...
... Give each student a copy of The Pony Express Reader's Theater (pages 35—38). There are 10 parts in this reader's theater. Assign parts to students by having them volunteer or audition. Have students highlight their parts. If you have ...
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... Give each student a copy of “Sweet Betsy from Pike ”—Call and Response (pages 42—43) and read it aloud together several times. Model reading lines with changes in pitch, tone, and timing to achieve different effects. Although this is a ...
... Give each student a copy of “Sweet Betsy from Pike ”—Call and Response (pages 42—43) and read it aloud together several times. Model reading lines with changes in pitch, tone, and timing to achieve different effects. Although this is a ...
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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