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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... look at the words in the text as closely as they ought. By continually drawing attention to interesting and important words in the text, you can help students maintain their focus and develop an ongoing fascination with words. After ...
... look at the words in the text as closely as they ought. By continually drawing attention to interesting and important words in the text, you can help students maintain their focus and develop an ongoing fascination with words. After ...
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... look for other suggestions that might be suitable. The key is that you have the students practice reading the pieces for authentic reasons. If the end presentations are always just to their own classes, students will quickly lose ...
... look for other suggestions that might be suitable. The key is that you have the students practice reading the pieces for authentic reasons. If the end presentations are always just to their own classes, students will quickly lose ...
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... look at the earliest ' ol the song on the activity “Dixie” by Do men (page 84). Then. have them ' T h ' d l I f h l ... Look away! Look. ©Shell Educational Publishing I I #8187 Fluency Activities: Expanding & Preserving the Union How to ...
... look at the earliest ' ol the song on the activity “Dixie” by Do men (page 84). Then. have them ' T h ' d l I f h l ... Look away! Look. ©Shell Educational Publishing I I #8187 Fluency Activities: Expanding & Preserving the Union How to ...
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... Look away! Look away! a Dixie Land. In Dlxie Land wharf was born . Student Reproducibles These paragraphs describe the fluency strategies taught through the lessons. y on one frosty mornin, k away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land. Dan I ...
... Look away! Look away! a Dixie Land. In Dlxie Land wharf was born . Student Reproducibles These paragraphs describe the fluency strategies taught through the lessons. y on one frosty mornin, k away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land. Dan I ...
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... look for clues in the text that tell them how to read it (e.g., commas or exclamation points). 4. Students should then begin to practice reading their assigned parts aloud. 5. Once the students are comfortable, have them perform their ...
... look for clues in the text that tell them how to read it (e.g., commas or exclamation points). 4. Students should then begin to practice reading their assigned parts aloud. 5. Once the students are comfortable, have them perform their ...
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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