Primary Source Fluency Activities

World Cultures ebook

Kathleen Knoblock

• Publisher: Shell Education
• Year: 2007
• eBook ISBN: 9781425892944
• Edition: 0

Grab your passport and discover primary sources related to eight different world cultures including Egypt, India, Rome, Greece, China, Africa, Mesopotamia, Mayas, Incas, and Aztecs. This book includes activities to help teach important fluency strategies, while learning about people and cultures from around the world. Students will 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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Credits
• Page 3 - Table of Contents
• Page 4 - Table of Contents (cont.)
• Page 5-8 - Introduction to Teaching Fluency By Dr. Timothy Rasinski
• Page 9-12 - How to Use This Product
• Page 13-14 - Fluency Strategy Descriptions
• Page 15-16 - Fluency Strategy Chart
• Page 17-20 - A Sumerian Poem
• Page 17 - Lesson Plans
• Page 19 - Reproducibles
• Page 21-25 - A Description of Mesopotamia
• Page 21 - Lesson Plans
• Page 23 - Reproducibles
• Page 26-31 - The Code of Hammurabi
• Page 26 - Lesson Plans
• Page 28 - Reproducibles
• Page 32-37 - Ten Babylonian Proverbs
• Page 32 - Lesson Plans
• Page 34 - Reproducibles
• Page 38-43 - The Shipwrecked Sailor
• Page 38 - Lesson Plans
• Page 40 - Reproducibles
• Page 44-51 - Hymn to the Nile
• Page 44 - Lesson Plans
• Page 46 - Reproducibles
• Page 52-55 - Herodotus’s Description of Mummification
• Page 52 - Lesson Plans
• Page 54 - Reproducibles
• Page 56-63 - Exodus from Egypt
• Page 56 - Lesson Plans
• Page 58 - Reproducibles
• Page 64-68 - Ancient Greek Olympics
• Page 64 - Lesson Plans
• Page 66 - Reproducibles
• Page 69-73 - Aesop’s Fables
• Page 69 - Lesson Plans
• Page 71 - Reproducibles
• Page 74-77 - Plato and Socrates
• Page 74 - Lesson Plans
• Page 76 - Reproducibles
• Page 78-83 - Alexander the Great
• Page 78 - Lesson Plans
• Page 80 - Reproducibles
• Page 84-89 - Arrian’s Description of India
• Page 84 - Lesson Plans
• Page 86 - Reproducibles
• Page 90-94 - One Law There Is
• Page 90 - Lesson Plans
• Page 92 - Reproducibles
• Page 95-100 - Buddha and His Teachings
• Page 95 - Lesson Plans
• Page 98 - Reproducibles
• Page 101-107 - Tales from Ancient India
• Page 101 - Lesson Plans
• Page 103 - Reproducibles
• Page 108-122 - San Zi Jing(Three Character Classic)
• Page 108 - Lesson Plans
• Page 110 - Reproducibles
• Page 113-120 - Marco Polo’s City of Heaven
• Page 113 - Lesson Plans
• Page 115 - Reproducibles
• Page 121-129 - An Old Chinese Poem
• Page 121 - Lesson Plans
• Page 123 - Reproducibles
• Page 130-134 - Julius Caesar
• Page 130 - Lesson Plans
• Page 132 - Reproducibles
• Page 135-140 - “The Coliseum” by Edgar Allan Poe
• Page 135 - Lesson Plans
• Page 137 - Reproducibles
• Page 141-149 - The Last Day of Pompeii
• Page 141 - Lesson Plans
• Page 144 - Reproducibles
• Page 151-155 - Ibn Battuta’s Travels to Mali
• Page 151 - Lesson Plans
• Page 153 - Reproducibles
• Page 156-160 - I Was Taken fromMy Village and Sold!
• Page 156 - Lesson Plans
• Page 158 - Reproducibles
• Page 161-168 - The Magic Flyswatter:A Hero Tale of the Congo
• Page 161 - Lesson Plans
• Page 163 - Reproducibles
• Page 169-174 - The Mystery of the Mayas
• Page 169 - Lesson Plans
• Page 171 - Reproducibles
• Page 175-179 - The Incas of Peru
• Page 175 - Lesson Plans
• Page 178 - Reproducibles
• Page 180-187 - Sacred Songs of the Aztecs
• Page 180 - Lesson Plans
• Page 182 - Reproducibles
• Page 188-189 - Appendix A: World Map
• Page 190-192 - Appendix B: Notes
• Thank You Page