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.

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.

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.

Three books containing a variety of reading strategies that will help increase comprehension. Some strategies include purpose questions, predicting, previewing, anticipation guides, webbing, writing before reading, etc.

Three books containing a variety of reading strategies that will help increase comprehension. Some strategies include purpose questions, predicting, previewing, anticipation guides, webbing, writing before reading, etc.

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.

When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, 11-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan. By a Newbery Medal-winning author.