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Groce, Eric; Groce, Robin; Wells, Cacey; Mize, Carly; Bell, Kirbi; Weschler, Jennie – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2022
In an effort to establish and expand abilities related to perspective, three elementary education professors collaborated with a trio of local fifth-grade teachers to develop and teach a lesson on the topic. In this article, the authors begin with the description and sequencing of the lesson, continue with an explanation of book categories and…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Perspective Taking, Student Attitudes
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Payne, Katherina A.; Green, Erin – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2018
One of the authors, Erin Green, recognized the importance of learning about her students' identities early in the year to support her relationships with students. She also saw an opportunity for an initial inquiry into identity, which would model aspects of her approach to social studies. Her goals for this initial inquiry were to support…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Social Studies, Identification (Psychology)
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Collins, Kathleen M. – Urban Education, 2011
In this article the author draws on the concept of positioning to examine how language is used during one particular fifth-grade writing lesson to construct both the lesson and the participants. The author's analysis of the classroom interactions makes visible how participants colluded to position one student in particular, Larnell, as a "bad, bad…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Perspective Taking, Systems Approach, Theory Practice Relationship
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Whitin, Phyllis; Whitin, David J. – Language Arts, 2008
Being a critical reader of data is an integral part of being fully literate in today's information age. In this article the authors underscore the interdisciplinary importance of this stance by drawing upon theoretical perspectives from both the fields of language and mathematics. They argue that all texts, including statistical ones, must be…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Heuristics, Grade 5, Statistics
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Pantaleo, Sylvia – Language Arts, 2007
This article examines how Grade 5 students read and responded to two wordless picturebooks by Istvan Banyai, "Re-Zoom" (1995) and "Zoom" (1995). Analysis of the students' written responses revealed that they wrote about the books' structure and format, as well as their sense/meaning making processes. (Contains 1 figure, 1 footnote, and a list of…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Evaluation, Picture Books, Children
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Schug, Mark C. – Social Education, 2007
In this article, the author takes a different approach in teaching U.S. history to young people. His approach is derived from economics but not economics as a long list of concepts embalmed in huge textbooks written for use in Econ 101 and 102. Instead, he suggests, history teachers can do much to improve their instruction by drawing upon a…
Descriptors: Economics, Perspective Taking, World Views, United States History