Young learners will be introduced to an important stage in history when they read Battle At The Alamo. This book is filled with photographs, interesting facts, discussion questions, and more, to effectively engage young learners in such a significant re-telling of events. Each 48-page title in The History Of America Collection delves into complex narratives in history. Concise, but comprehensive, these titles are very approachable for transitioning readers and learners beginning to recognize detail orientation and how to analyze text. Each book in this series features photographs, timelines, discussion questions, and more, to fully engage transitioning readers. The History Of America Collection engages students in major historical events with fascinating facts, photographs, and more. Readers are able to gauge their own understanding with before-reading questions that help build background knowledge and end-of-book comprehension and extension activities.
Lil' Tex Visits the Alamo
Santa Anna entered the city of San Antonio with a part of his army . ... accompanied the Curate , Don Refugio de la Garza , who , by Santa Anna's orders , had assembled during the night at a temporary fortification erected in Potrero ...
As a fourteen-year-old boy involved in the Texas Revolution, the reader makes decisions determining how the story leads up to the Battle of the Alamo.
Are you going to the Alamo? Read this book first, then take it with you to see and remember it all. Most visitors just see the Alamo compound, where it ended, but the 1836 siege and battle took place all over the city.
Many men fought--and many men died--in the Texas Revolution of 1836. This is the story of John Apple. A man who not only fought in the battle of the Alamo, he lived to avenge it . . . THE ROAD TO THE ALAMO John Apple is a simple man.
One of America's best-known folk heroes, Crockett served as a frontiersman, a scout, a soldier and a politician in the U.S. Congress. He died defending the Alamo, a steadfast citizen and heroic leader to the very end.
"It is 1836 in the large country of Mexico, which includes the land of Texas.
Having moved from Kentucky to Texas, young Jessie finds her life in a state of chaos as her father and brother set off to fight the Mexicans while she and the rest of her kin are forced to live within the safety of the fort.
A collection of family legends from the descendants of the men who fought to protect the Alamo on March 6, 1836.
The story of the March 5, 1836, battle at the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, when only 182 Texans fought thousands of Mexican soldiers in an unsuccessful attempt to gain independence from Mexico.