Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ482449
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1993
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ISSN: ISSN-0889-0293
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Natural Partners: Using Reading and Writing to Promote Social Studies Understanding.
McGuire, Margit E.; Noe, Katherine L. Schlick
International Journal of Social Education, v8 n2 p1-11 Fall 1993
Asserts that social studies is an integrated field of study that calls for organizing the curriculum in a holistic manner. Maintains that the whole-language movement, which involves thinking about reading and writing as integrated, reciprocal processes, forms a natural partnership with social studies instruction. (CFR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cooperative Learning, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Folk Culture, Integrated Curriculum, Interdisciplinary Approach, Multicultural Education, Reading Writing Relationship, Social Studies, Student Behavior, Teacher Behavior, Teaching Methods, Thinking Skills, Whole Language Approach, Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Exercises, Writing Instruction, Writing Strategies
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles
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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
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