Primary Source Fluency Activities: Expanding & Preserving the Union

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Teacher Created Materials, Jul 1, 2005 - Education - 192 pages
Featuring 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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By Dr Timothy Rasinski 58
5
Lewis and Clark
9
Fluency Strategy Descriptions 1314
13
The War of 1812
23
Pioneer Trails
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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Wendy Conklin, M.A. Ed., is an award-winning author, editor, educational consultant, and teacher. She trains teachers in staff development workshops across the country, writes curriculum, and teaches diverse groups of children.

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