Building Fluency Through Practice and Performance: American History

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Teacher Created Materials, 2007 M12 21 - 176 páginas
Building Fluency Through Practice and Performance: American History sets the stage for teaching fluency with this collection of reading texts coauthored and compiled by fluency expert Timothy Rasinski. Featuring various genres of texts including poems, songs, scripts, documents, and other material, this resource will help develop proficient and fluent readers. As readers regularly read and perform these American history related texts or passages, they improve decoding, fluency, interpretation, and comprehension. Students will revisit the past through the voices of history including James W.C. Pennington, former slave, Carl Sandburg, and John F. Kennedy. Background information, performance suggestions, a section on how to use the texts, and a Teacher Resource CD including digital copies of the fluency texts are included.

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Foreword By Dr Timothy Rasinski
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AmericaAn Overview
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A Time of Thanks and Remembrance
24
Francis Scott Keys The StarSpangled Banner
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Americas Voices for Equality
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Excerpts from John F Kennedys Civil Rights Address June 13 1963
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Excerpts of Remarks by Robert F Kennedy on the Day of
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A Nation Bereaved
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Landing on the Moon
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An Interview with Six American First Ladies
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Brother Can You Spare a Dime?
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Timothy Rasinski, Ph.D., is a Professor of Literacy Education at Kent State University. He is the author of several best-selling books and numerous articles on reading education, word study, and reading fluency. He is a popular and frequent presenter at reading and literacy conferences nationwide. His research is cited by the National Reading Panel in the development of Reading First, and he is currently coeditor of the Journal of Literacy Research.

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