Primary Source Fluency Activities: The 20th Century


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Make difficult primary source materials accessible to today's students. This book provides a wide variety of primary sources from 20th century events with activities that teach important fluency strategies and cover key events and people of the time period. Included with each text is a history connection, a vocabulary connection, and extension ideas. A ZIP file is included containing the primary source photographs shown throughout the book. 192pp.




Primary Source Fluency Activities: Expanding & Preserving the Union


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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.




Primary Source Fluency Activities: Expanding & Preserving the Union


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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.




Primary Source Fluency Activities: My Community Then and Now


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Make it a "community effort" in your classroom to discover primary sources related to various jobs within the community as well as activities to help teach important fluency strategies. While learning about people and their occupations, 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. A Teacher Resource CD is included containing the primary source photographs shown throughout the book. This resource is aligned to the interdisciplinary themes from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills. 176pp.




Primary Source Fluency Activities: World Cultures


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Grab your passport to discover primary sources related to each of eight different cultures with activities to help teach important fluency strategies. While learning about people and cultures from around the world, 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. This resource is aligned to the interdisciplinary themes from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills and supports Common Core State Standards. 192pp.




Primary Source Fluency Activities


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Primary Source Fluency Activities: My Community Then and Now


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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.




Primary Source Fluency Activities: World Cultures


Book Description

Grab your passport to discover primary sources related to each of eight different cultures with activities to help teach important fluency strategies. While learning about people and cultures from around the world, 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. This resource is aligned to the interdisciplinary themes from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills and supports Common Core State Standards. 192pp.




100 Great African Kings and Queens Volume 1 ( Revised Enriched Edition )


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An amazing chronicle of the exploits of ten illustrious African Kings and Queens through the sands of time. From Khufu, the builder of the Pyramid of Giza, to Nzinga the Warrior Queen of Angola.




Teaching with Primary Sources


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