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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... Write the text you are going to 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 ...
... Write the text you are going to 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 ...
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... write words from the word wall or bank. Then, the teacher calls out words or sentences that contain the target words or definitions of the target words. Students find the words on their cards and cover them with markers. Once a ...
... write words from the word wall or bank. Then, the teacher calls out words or sentences that contain the target words or definitions of the target words. Students find the words on their cards and cover them with markers. Once a ...
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... write differently now than the people of the past. What that means for our 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 ...
... write differently now than the people of the past. What that means for our 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 ...
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... write these words as a poem. By 1814, the poem had been put to music. JL. Vocabulary. Connection. Discuss unfamiliar vocabulary encountered in the text. Some possible words are listed below. After identifying the difficult words, discuss ...
... write these words as a poem. By 1814, the poem had been put to music. JL. Vocabulary. Connection. Discuss unfamiliar vocabulary encountered in the text. Some possible words are listed below. After identifying the difficult words, discuss ...
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... write another verse to go with this song. Does it fit with the story? Does the verse address a hardship that pioneers faced? Have students vote on the new verses and allow them to add the winning verse to their performance. Ji_. ' HaVe ...
... write another verse to go with this song. Does it fit with the story? Does the verse address a hardship that pioneers faced? Have students vote on the new verses and allow them to add the winning verse to their performance. Ji_. ' HaVe ...
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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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