Primary Source Fluency Activities Expanding Preserving The Union

From speeches to poems and letters, this book provides primary sources from America in the 1800s to enhance the Primary Source Readers. Activities for each primary source teach important fluency strategies while covering key historical people and events.

Featuring 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.

This resource provides grade-appropriate primary sources covering key social studies concepts related to the Community theme. The activities teach important fluency strategies and introduce important analytical skills. Make difficult primary source materials accessible to even your youngest students. Includes Resource CD.

Three books containing a variety of reading strategies that will help increase comprehension. Some strategies include purpose questions, predicting, previewing, anticipation guides, webbing, writing before reading, etc.

Three books containing a variety of reading strategies that will help increase comprehension. Some strategies include purpose questions, predicting, previewing, anticipation guides, webbing, writing before reading, etc.

Learn how to build a daily fluency routine and easily incorporate it into instruction. Discover the step-by-step process of teaching fluency and a continuum of lessons that gradually release responsibility from the teacher to the student through an emphasis on coaching. Support the use of scripts and supplemental materials in an integrated plan for instruction