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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... Students will find the texts in this book interesting and sometimes challenging. Students will especially want to ... Read them with your students and read them again. Be assured that if you regularly have your students read and perform ...
... Students will find the texts in this book interesting and sometimes challenging. Students will especially want to ... Read them with your students and read them again. Be assured that if you regularly have your students read and perform ...
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... read on chart paper and/or put it on an overhead transparency. Have the students read the text several times each day. They should read it a couple times at the beginning of each day; read it several times during various breaks in the day; ...
... read on chart paper and/or put it on an overhead transparency. Have the students read the text several times each day. They should read it a couple times at the beginning of each day; read it several times during various breaks in the day; ...
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... students to perform the text, as well as other ones practiced from previous days. This performance time can range ... read the texts repeatedly. Reading requires students to actually see the words in the texts. Thus, it is important that ...
... students to perform the text, as well as other ones practiced from previous days. This performance time can range ... read the texts repeatedly. Reading requires students to actually see the words in the texts. Thus, it is important that ...
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... students is that they often have to decipher very difficult and complex writing just to read a primary source document. This book is set up to help your students be successful as they tackle writings from the past. Instead of just reading ...
... students is that they often have to decipher very difficult and complex writing just to read a primary source document. This book is set up to help your students be successful as they tackle writings from the past. Instead of just reading ...
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... students read historical poetry. Remember, your students' fluency will only improve if you make the performances important and authentic. Reader's. Theater. Throughout the lessons in this book, you will find numerous reader's theater ...
... students read historical poetry. Remember, your students' fluency will only improve if you make the performances important and authentic. Reader's. Theater. Throughout the lessons in this book, you will find numerous 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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