Help students write 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base about content-area literacy instruction, including key strategies to help students write about and comprehend historical content.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.
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 ...
This is an essential book for everyone who wants to write clearly about any subject and use writing as a means of learning.
Prepare middle school and high school students to read, write, and think like social studies experts and historians.
This book is a must-read for PhD candidates and supervisors new to the genre, as well as those involved in directing PhD programmes who are interested in the pedagogical implications of the move towards article-based dissertations.
Content-Area Writing Strategies for Social Studies
This book offers invaluable suggestions that will help social studies teachers in grades 7 through 12 to teach the skills of communication and self-expression that will enable students to achieve their college and career goals and become ...
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 ...
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 ...
New to this Edition A list of goals before each chapter presents an overview of the chapter’s content focus, and provides an outline for the chapter review.
5 Assessment and Evaluation Alleman, J., & Brophy, J. (1998, January). Assessment in a social constructivist classroom. Social Education, 62, 32–34. Alleman, J., & Brophy, J. (1999, October). The changing nature and purpose of ...