Primary Source Fluency Activities: Early AmericaTeacher Created Materials, 2004 M10 30 - 192 pages From speeches to poems and letters including The Wedding of Pocahontas and an excerpt from The Federalist Papers, this book provides primary sources and activities to help teach important fluency strategies. While discovering historical people and events from the early American period, 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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Abigail Adams aloud Amendment analyze and read and/or vocabulary activities Ask the students Bald Eagle Benjamin Franklin Boston class to practice colonists Columbus committee complete the history Connection Discuss unfamiliar context and vocabulary copies of Analyzing Declaration of Independence difficult words Discuss unfamiliar vocabulary Distribute copies Divide the students Excerpt Explain Extension Idea Federalist Papers fluency activity help students analyze historical context history and/or vocabulary identifying the difficult Jefferson John Adams John Rolfe Liberty Tree oral reading Paul Revere perform Phillis Wheatley piece fluently Pocahontas poem possible words practice reading R1 and R2 read the piece read the text Reader reader's theater reading activity reading rate repeated readings sail song stanza students copies students Fluency Suggestions students into groups students read Suggestions and Activities unfamiliar vocabulary encountered Vocabulary Connection Discuss vocabulary will help voice want to complete words are listed Yankee doodle dandy