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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... poems using the rhyming words. These composed poems can be used for further practice and performance. No matter how you do it, make the opportunity to examine selected words from the passages part of your regular instructional routine ...
... poems using the rhyming words. These composed poems can be used for further practice and performance. No matter how you do it, make the opportunity to examine selected words from the passages part of your regular instructional routine ...
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... poems, letters, government documents, newspaper articles, and songs. Each of these primary sources is from America in the 1800s (i.e., the Louisiana Purchase through the Civil War and into the Indian conflicts in the 1880s). Activities ...
... poems, letters, government documents, newspaper articles, and songs. Each of these primary sources is from America in the 1800s (i.e., the Louisiana Purchase through the Civil War and into the Indian conflicts in the 1880s). Activities ...
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... poems, letters, etc. They can be performed directly from the original material or adapted specifically for the reader's theater performance. . Musical accompaniment or soundtracks may be used but are not necessary. Very simple props may ...
... poems, letters, etc. They can be performed directly from the original material or adapted specifically for the reader's theater performance. . Musical accompaniment or soundtracks may be used but are not necessary. Very simple props may ...
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... poem' below that headin . he next line is under the '0' ing Voice 2. on: lines the poem ' These steps in the lesson plan describe how to 4. Encourage students to focus on voice tone, timing. and facial expressionsas they read. Discuss ...
... poem' below that headin . he next line is under the '0' ing Voice 2. on: lines the poem ' These steps in the lesson plan describe how to 4. Encourage students to focus on voice tone, timing. and facial expressionsas they read. Discuss ...
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... Poem or Song for Two Voices This type of poem or song has been written (or rewritten) so that it can be read by two readers. The readers alternate between lines while sometimes reading lines together. Reader's Theater Reader's theater ...
... Poem or Song for Two Voices This type of poem or song has been written (or rewritten) so that it can be read by two readers. The readers alternate between lines while sometimes reading lines together. Reader's Theater Reader's theater ...
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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