Primary Source Fluency Activities: Expanding & Preserving the Union

Primary Source Fluency Activities: Expanding & Preserving the Union
Author: Wendy Conklin
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2005-07-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1425893759

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

Primary Source Fluency Activities: Expanding & Preserving the Union
Author: Wendy Conklin
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2005-07-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1425803660

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

Primary Source Fluency Activities: My Community Then and Now
Author: Christi E. Parker
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2007-01-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1425893775

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: The 20th Century

Primary Source Fluency Activities: The 20th Century
Author: Wendy Conklin
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2007-11-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1425892957

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: Early America

Primary Source Fluency Activities: Early America
Author: Jennifer Prior
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2004-10-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1425893740

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.

Primary Source Fluency Activities: World Cultures

Primary Source Fluency Activities: World Cultures
Author: Kathleen Knoblock
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2007-02-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1425892949

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: Early America

Primary Source Fluency Activities: Early America
Author: Jennifer Prior
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2004-10-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1425890024

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.

Primary Source Fluency Activities: My Community Then and Now

Primary Source Fluency Activities: My Community Then and Now
Author: Christi E. Parker
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2007-01-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1425890059

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.

Figuring Out Fluency in Mathematics Teaching and Learning, Grades K-8

Figuring Out Fluency in Mathematics Teaching and Learning, Grades K-8
Author: Jennifer M. Bay-Williams
Publisher: Corwin
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2021-03-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1071818430

Because fluency practice is not a worksheet. Fluency in mathematics is more than adeptly using basic facts or implementing algorithms. Real fluency involves reasoning and creativity, and it varies by the situation at hand. Figuring Out Fluency in Mathematics Teaching and Learning offers educators the inspiration to develop a deeper understanding of procedural fluency, along with a plethora of pragmatic tools for shifting classrooms toward a fluency approach. In a friendly and accessible style, this hands-on guide empowers educators to support students in acquiring the repertoire of reasoning strategies necessary to becoming versatile and nimble mathematical thinkers. It includes: "Seven Significant Strategies" to teach to students as they work toward procedural fluency. Activities, fluency routines, and games that encourage learning the efficiency, flexibility, and accuracy essential to real fluency. Reflection questions, connections to mathematical standards, and techniques for assessing all components of fluency. Suggestions for engaging families in understanding and supporting fluency. Fluency is more than a toolbox of strategies to choose from; it’s also a matter of equity and access for all learners. Give your students the knowledge and power to become confident mathematical thinkers.