Building Fluency Through Practice & Performance Grade 6 ebook

Lorraine Griffith, Timothy Rasinski

• Publisher: Shell Education
• Year: 2008
• eBook ISBN: 9781425893538
• Edition: 0

Increase students' fluency levels through repeated reading of traditional poems, rhymes, song lyrics, reader's theater, and monologues. Based on Dr. Timothy Rasinski's important fluency research, these books build reading skills for all students, including English language learners. Improve grade 6 fluency by performing and reciting these pieces individually, in pairs, and whole group with the provided reading strategies. Two CD's are included: an Audio CD with recordings of the songs to model fluent reading, and a Teacher Resource CD with the songs presented in PowerPoint for whole class participation.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Credits
• Page 3 - Table of Contents
• Page 4 - Table of Contents Cont.
• Page 5 - Foreword
• Page 7 - Introduction
• Page 12 - Standard Correlations
• Page 13 - Poems and Rhymes
• Page 14 - There Is a Lady Sweet and Kind
• Page 15 - Home Sweet Home
• Page 17 - The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
• Page 18 - To Flush, My Dog
• Page 20 - A Pinch of Salt
• Page 21 - I Remember, I Remember
• Page 23 - Letty’s Globe
• Page 24 - Charge of the Light Brigade
• Page 27 - Annabel Lee
• Page 29 - Casabianca
• Page 32 - The Frost
• Page 34 - The Brook
• Page 37 - Eliza Crossing the River
• Page 40 - Song Lyrics
• Page 41 - Shady Grove
• Page 43 - Shenandoah
• Page 45 - The Ship That Never Returned
• Page 48 - Stewball
• Page 49 - Streets of Laredo
• Page 50 - Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis
• Page 52 - The Abolitionist Hymn
• Page 53 - An Irish Blessing
• Page 54 - The Cruel War
• Page 55 - Dink’s Song
• Page 56 - Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill
• Page 58 - Alabama Jubilee
• Page 59 - Ezekiel Saw a Wheel
• Page 62 - Wayfaring Stranger
• Page 63 - Monologues
• Page 64 - Quotes by Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
• Page 65 - The Right to Vote
• Page 66 - Speech by Napoleon Bonaparte
• Page 67 - Quotes by Marie Curie
• Page 68 - A Letter from Narcissa Whitman
• Page 70 - The Trail fo Tears Begins
• Page 72 - Reader’s Theater Scripts
• Page 73 - Landing on the Moon
• Page 79 - Adventures of Leif Eriksson
• Page 85 - Being a Good Citizen
• Page 94 - “We Still Read”: Fictional Genres
• Page 103 - The Pied Piper of Hamelin
• Page 113 - The Saving of “Old Ironsides
• Page 116 - July 2nd or July 4th?
• Page 118 - Echo and Narcissus
• Page 124 - Kindness
• Page 127 - Appendices
• Page 127 - Appendix A: Works Cited
• Page 128 - Appendix B: Index
• Thank You Page