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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... tone, timing. and facial expressionsas they read. Discuss with studenLs how their tones of voice can affect the mood of ong. Discuss introduce the piece to your students. Suggestions reiterates": i““ili“'.l§22."i ...
... tone, timing. and facial expressionsas they read. Discuss with studenLs how their tones of voice can affect the mood of ong. Discuss introduce the piece to your students. Suggestions reiterates": i““ili“'.l§22."i ...
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... tone, and timing to achieve different effects. Although this is a song, you are treating it like a poem. It'll be hard not to break into song. Feel free to sing if you are musically talented! 4. Tell students that one group of them will ...
... tone, and timing to achieve different effects. Although this is a song, you are treating it like a poem. It'll be hard not to break into song. Feel free to sing if you are musically talented! 4. Tell students that one group of them will ...
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... tone of voice when reading. This might also involve varying the sound of voice when different characters speak. As the student reads, consider the following questions: - Does the student read in monotone? ' Does he or she vary tone of ...
... tone of voice when reading. This might also involve varying the sound of voice when different characters speak. As the student reads, consider the following questions: - Does the student read in monotone? ' Does he or she vary tone of ...
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... tone, and timing to achieve different effects. Ask students to 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 ...
... tone, and timing to achieve different effects. Ask students to 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 ...
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... tone, and timing to achieve different effects. Although this is a song, you are treating it like a poem. 4. Tell students that they will work in groups to perform a reading of this song for the music teacher(s) in your school. Divide ...
... tone, and timing to achieve different effects. Although this is a song, you are treating it like a poem. 4. Tell students that they will work in groups to perform a reading of this song for the music teacher(s) in your school. Divide ...
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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