Primary Source Fluency Activities: My Community Then and Now – Teacher Resource Provides Primary Sources to Build Reading Fluency and Comprehension (Social Studies Classroom Resource)

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. 176pp.