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Teaching U.S. History Thematically: Document-Based Lessons for the Secondary Classroom. Second Edition
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Metro, Rosalie – Teachers College Press, 2023
Get started with an innovative approach to teaching history that develops literacy and higher-order thinking skills, connects the past to students' lives, and meets state and national standards (grades 7-12). Now in a second edition, this popular book provides an introductory unit to help teachers build a trustful classroom climate; over 70…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Instructional Innovation, Literacy
"From Coursework to Classroom": Learning to Teach History to Bilingual Students
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Schall-Leckrone, Laura – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This qualitative research study examined how student teachers and novice history teachers learn to teach adolescent bilingual learners (BLs) from coursework to the classroom. The purpose of the study was to investigate to what extent five participants drew upon social justice-oriented pre-service preparation when they taught history to bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Student Teachers
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects. Appendix B: Text Exemplars and Sample Performance Tasks
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Common Core State Standards Initiative, 2010
The text samples presented in this document primarily serve to exemplify the level of complexity and quality that the Standards require all students in a given grade band to engage with. Additionally, they are suggestive of the breadth of texts that students should encounter in the text types required by the Standards. The choices should serve as…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Poetry, Fiction, Oral Reading
Kamishibai: A Vehicle to Multiple Literacies.
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Lee, Gretchen – Voices from the Middle, 2003
Outlines how the author and her fellow history teacher used kamishibai storyboards (a type of folk art common in Japan before World War II) in an integrated unit on Egypt to make textbook reading more meaningful to students. Notes that in order to complete the unit, students had to use multiple literacy skills as they combined textbook reading…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Integrated Activities
Service Learning Reinforces Language Arts Skills.
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Graff, Pat S. – English Journal, 2001
Discusses the many benefits of service learning, and offers examples from the author's high school students. Notes literacy and language arts service learning projects; the importance of integrating service learning into a regular program of instruction; programs and resource materials that support service learning at the K-12 level; and students'…
Descriptors: Class Activities, English Instruction, High Schools, History Instruction
More Children's Literature to Promote Citizenship in the Upper and Middle Grades.
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Sandmann, Alexa L.; Ahern, John F. – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 1997
Focuses on using an integrated approach to furthering both literacy and social studies goals. Provides an annotated bibliography of children's literature that helps students become informed citizens. Includes suggested activities and discussion questions with each entry and links these activities to goals listed in the national standards. (DSK)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Childrens Literature, Citizenship Education, Civics