Author : Wendy Conklin
Publisher : Teacher Created Materials
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 36,53 MB
Release : 2005-07-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1425893759
Book Description
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.