Help students read about social studies content and build their historical thinking skills! This 2nd edition resource was created to support College and Career Readiness Standards, and provides an in-depth research base about content-area literacy instruction, including key strategies to help students read and comprehend historical content. Each strategy includes classroom examples by grade ranges (1-2, 3-5, 6-8 and 9-12) and necessary support materials, such as graphic organizers, templates, or digital resources to help teachers implement quickly and easily. Specific suggestions for differentiating instruction are also provided to help English language learners, gifted students, and students reading below grade level.
Another useful graphic organizer, the I-Chart (Hoffman, 1992), also helps students understand that authors vary in how they present information and interpret events. Hoffman developed the I-Chart when he became upset that his daughter ...
Content-area Reading Strategies For Social Studies: Grade 7-9
Prepare middle school and high school students to read, write, and think like social studies experts and historians.
Provides teaching strategies and lessons for helping students with content area reading.
This four-book series, ideal for use in content-specific classrooms, teaches middle and high school students the strategies they need to comprehend their content-area textbooks and to succeed on tests in language arts, social studies, ...
This 2nd edition resource was created to support College and Career Readiness Standards, and provides an in-depth research base about content-area literacy instruction, including key strategies to help students write about and comprehend ...
"Offers reading strategies and student activities for: world history, American history, geography, government & civics."--Cover.
Teaching Reading in Social Studies: A Supplement to Teaching Reading in the Content Areas Teacher's Manual (2nd Edition)
The accompanying DVD-ROM includes: Modifiable Blackline Masters All graphics, photographs, and illustrations from the text Additional teaching support Order Information: All International Based Customers (School, University and Consumer): ...
This publication examines reading instruction techniques that can be used by teachers to diagnose and remedy students' weaknesses in reading social studies materials. There are four chapters. Chapter one discusses...