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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... reading fluency within the content areas. Within the past several years, reading fluency has become recognized as an essential element in elementary and middle grade reading programs (National Reading Panel, 2001). Readers who are ...
... reading fluency within the content areas. Within the past several years, reading fluency has become recognized as an essential element in elementary and middle grade reading programs (National Reading Panel, 2001). Readers who are ...
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... reading the text in such a way that it conveys the meaning that the author attempts to convey or the meaning that the reader may wish to convey. Through oral interpretation of a text, readers can express joy, sadness, anger, surprise ...
... reading the text in such a way that it conveys the meaning that the author attempts to convey or the meaning that the reader may wish to convey. Through oral interpretation of a text, readers can express joy, sadness, anger, surprise ...
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... reading, the practicing of passages should also provide opportunities to develop students' vocabulary and word decoding skills. Students may practice a passage repeatedly to the point where it is largely memorized. At this point ...
... reading, the practicing of passages should also provide opportunities to develop students' vocabulary and word decoding skills. Students may practice a passage repeatedly to the point where it is largely memorized. At this point ...
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... reading practice. Students become more fluent when they read the texts repeatedly. Reading requires students to actually see the words in the texts. Thus, it is important that you do not require students to memorize the texts they are ...
... reading practice. Students become more fluent when they read the texts repeatedly. Reading requires students to actually see the words in the texts. Thus, it is important that you do not require students to memorize the texts they are ...
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... reading levels of your students, you may find some of these pieces too difficult to use at the beginning of the year. Instead, focus on the pieces that are rewritten or pieces where the original reading level is lower. Unfortunately for ...
... reading levels of your students, you may find some of these pieces too difficult to use at the beginning of the year. Instead, focus on the pieces that are rewritten or pieces where the original reading level is lower. Unfortunately for ...
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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