Leveled Texts: Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire

Leveled Texts: Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire

Author: Debra J. Housel

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 9

ISBN-13: 1425870678

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All students can learn about ancient Rome through text written at four reading levels. Symbols on the pages represent reading-level ranges to help differentiate instruction. Provided comprehension questions complement the text.


Leveled Texts: Mighty Roman Empire

Leveled Texts: Mighty Roman Empire

Author: Debra J. Housel

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 9

ISBN-13: 142587066X

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All students can learn about ancient Rome through text written at four reading levels. Symbols on the pages represent reading-level ranges to help differentiate instruction. Provided comprehension questions complement the text.


Leveled Texts for Differentiated Content-Area Literacy: World Cultures Through Time Kit

Leveled Texts for Differentiated Content-Area Literacy: World Cultures Through Time Kit

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Publisher: Teacher Created Materials

Published: 2010-09-24

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9781433320897

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Differentiate content, process, and product and promote content-area literacy with this dynamic kit about world cultures through time. This kit provides leveled informational texts featuring key historical themes and topics embedded within targeted literacy instruction. Teachers can assess comprehension of informational text using the included Culminating Activity. Additionally, teachers can use multimedia activities to engage students and extend learning. The 60 colorful Leveled Text Cards in this kit are written at four distinct reading levels, each card featuring subtle symbols that denote differentiated reading levels, making differentiation strategies easy to implement. Leveled Texts for Differentiated Content-Area Literacy: World Cultures Through Time Complete Kit includes: Leveled Text Cards; digital resources; Lessons; a Culminating Activity; Tiered Graphic Organizers; Assessment Tools; and audio recordings (of thematic raps and leveled texts).


Leveled Texts--Roman Times Text Set

Leveled Texts--Roman Times Text Set

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Publisher: Teacher Created Materials

Published: 2014-08-01

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 148078978X

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This leveled text set allows students to study Roman times through factual texts and fictional tales. Texts are written at four levels to differentiate instruction. Provided comprehension questions complement the texts.


The Rise of the Roman Empire

The Rise of the Roman Empire

Author: Polybius

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2003-08-28

Total Pages: 747

ISBN-13: 0141920505

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The Greek statesman Polybius (c.200–118 BC) wrote his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire in order to help his fellow countrymen understand how their world came to be dominated by Rome. Opening with the Punic War in 264 BC, he vividly records the critical stages of Roman expansion: its campaigns throughout the Mediterranean, the temporary setbacks inflicted by Hannibal and the final destruction of Carthage. An active participant of the politics of his time as well as a friend of many prominent Roman citizens, Polybius drew on many eyewitness accounts in writing this cornerstone work of history.


Leveled Texts for Social Studies: World Cultures through Time

Leveled Texts for Social Studies: World Cultures through Time

Author: Debra J. Housel

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials

Published: 2007-04-16

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1425890822

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Climb aboard a time capsule for a trip around the globe to explore 15 different social studies topics ranging from Mesopotamian empires to the Incas with these engaging texts. Leveled Texts for Social Studies: World Cultures Through Time is an award-winning resource designed to help all students grasp important historical people and events through high-interest social studies material written at four different reading levels ranging from 1.5 to 7.2. Each text is presented in a two-page format and complemented with comprehension questions written at each reading level. Includes a Teacher Resource CD with a modifiable version of each passage plus full-color versions of the text and image files. This resource is aligned to the interdisciplinary themes from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills and supports Common Core State Standards. 144 pages + CD


The Rise of Rome

The Rise of Rome

Author: Anthony Everitt

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2012-08-07

Total Pages: 521

ISBN-13: 0679645160

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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE KANSAS CITY STAR From Anthony Everitt, the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian, comes a riveting, magisterial account of Rome and its remarkable ascent from an obscure agrarian backwater to the greatest empire the world has ever known. Emerging as a market town from a cluster of hill villages in the eighth and seventh centuries B.C., Rome grew to become the ancient world’s preeminent power. Everitt fashions the story of Rome’s rise to glory into an erudite page-turner filled with lasting lessons for our time. He chronicles the clash between patricians and plebeians that defined the politics of the Republic. He shows how Rome’s shrewd strategy of offering citizenship to her defeated subjects was instrumental in expanding the reach of her burgeoning empire. And he outlines the corrosion of constitutional norms that accompanied Rome’s imperial expansion, as old habits of political compromise gave way, leading to violence and civil war. In the end, unimaginable wealth and power corrupted the traditional virtues of the Republic, and Rome was left triumphant everywhere except within its own borders. Everitt paints indelible portraits of the great Romans—and non-Romans—who left their mark on the world out of which the mighty empire grew: Cincinnatus, Rome’s George Washington, the very model of the patrician warrior/aristocrat; the brilliant general Scipio Africanus, who turned back a challenge from the Carthaginian legend Hannibal; and Alexander the Great, the invincible Macedonian conqueror who became a role model for generations of would-be Roman rulers. Here also are the intellectual and philosophical leaders whose observations on the art of government and “the good life” have inspired every Western power from antiquity to the present: Cato the Elder, the famously incorruptible statesman who spoke out against the decadence of his times, and Cicero, the consummate orator whose championing of republican institutions put him on a collision course with Julius Caesar and whose writings on justice and liberty continue to inform our political discourse today. Rome’s decline and fall have long fascinated historians, but the story of how the empire was won is every bit as compelling. With The Rise of Rome, one of our most revered chroniclers of the ancient world tells that tale in a way that will galvanize, inform, and enlighten modern readers. Praise for The Rise of Rome “Fascinating history and a great read.”—Chicago Sun-Times “An engrossing history of a relentlessly pugnacious city’s 500-year rise to empire.”—Kirkus Reviews “Rome’s history abounds with remarkable figures. . . . Everitt writes for the informed and the uninformed general reader alike, in a brisk, conversational style, with a modern attitude of skepticism and realism.”—The Dallas Morning News “[A] lively and readable account . . . Roman history has an uncanny ability to resonate with contemporary events.”—Maclean’s “Elegant, swift and faultless as an introduction to his subject.”—The Spectator “[An] engaging work that will captivate and inform from beginning to end.”—Booklist


Leveled Texts: Mesoamerican Empires

Leveled Texts: Mesoamerican Empires

Author: Debra J. Housel

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 9

ISBN-13: 1425870732

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All students can learn about Mesoamerican empires through text written at four reading levels. Symbols on the pages represent reading-level ranges to help differentiate instruction. Provided comprehension questions complement the text.


How Rome Fell

How Rome Fell

Author: Adrian Goldsworthy

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2009-05-12

Total Pages: 558

ISBN-13: 0300155603

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The author discusses how the Roman Empire--an empire without a serious rival--rotted from within, its rulers and institutions putting short-term ambition and personal survival over the wider good of the state.


Leveled Text-Dependent Question Stems

Leveled Text-Dependent Question Stems

Author: Housel, Debra J.

Publisher: Shell Education

Published: 2017-03-01

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 1618139061

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Create effective text-dependent questions to increase students' understanding of text through in-depth examinations. This teacher resource enables students to study broad concepts, such as text structure and point of view, as well as analyze the overarching themes, concepts, arguments, and claims presented in texts. Written at a variety of grade level ranges, these text-dependent question stems allow teachers to differentiate content so all students can access and understand the concepts explored. Question stems can also be used to correlate to the Common Core and other state standards.