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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... groups, or as an entire class, be sure to provide positive feedback about their reading. Help them develop a sense for reading the text in such a way that it conveys the meaning that the author attempts to convey or the meaning that the ...
... groups, or as an entire class, be sure to provide positive feedback about their reading. Help them develop a sense for reading the text in such a way that it conveys the meaning that the author attempts to convey or the meaning that the ...
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... group to come to your room to listen to your children perform. Have the children perform the targeted text as a group. Later, you can have individuals or groups of children perform the text again, as well as other texts that have been ...
... group to come to your room to listen to your children perform. Have the children perform the targeted text as a group. Later, you can have individuals or groups of children perform the text again, as well as other texts that have been ...
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... group is reading in unison. Divided Reading Divided reading is used when dealing with a large piece of text like a long speech, short story, or chapters in a book. The text is divided into parts and read over several days by groups of ...
... group is reading in unison. Divided Reading Divided reading is used when dealing with a large piece of text like a long speech, short story, or chapters in a book. The text is divided into parts and read over several days by groups of ...
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... groups feel prepared, have them perform a reading of this song for the class. The class can decide which group of eight students should represent the class on the school intercom. (You may decide that this poem is too long to be read in ...
... groups feel prepared, have them perform a reading of this song for the class. The class can decide which group of eight students should represent the class on the school intercom. (You may decide that this poem is too long to be read in ...
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... group of fellow teachers. They hired a prairie wagon to take them there. Close to the top of the peak, they had to leave the wagon behind and ride the rest of the way on mules. She was so inspired by the beautiful scenery at the top of ...
... group of fellow teachers. They hired a prairie wagon to take them there. Close to the top of the peak, they had to leave the wagon behind and ride the rest of the way on mules. She was so inspired by the beautiful scenery at the top of ...
Contents
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32 | |
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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