Building Literacy in Social Studies: Strategies for Improving Comprehension and Critical Thinking - 4 views

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  #1 Kevin Kerbrat on 16 Apr 12

   

  I just came across this website, and this great social studies instructional strategy guide. It talks about the hard time that students have with reading social studies textbooks. They have a teacher start off a usual school year on the first day having the students pull out their books and turning to page 1 chapter 1. Almost all of the students have lost interest or have no ambition to go forward. Instead of doing this "old way", the teacher now uses a new strategy that he learned. He will have the students open up the table of contents and with a partner go through the entire table of contents and come up with questions that hey want. He then passes out a scavenger hunt worksheet. With their partners the students must find the answers to the fifteen questions on the scavenger hunt. He tells them all of the answers are there and by working with their partners it will allow the students to better engage their thought processes and will help them develop better understanding of the material.
  
  http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/106010/chapters/Reading-Social-Studies-Texts.aspx

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I just came across this website, and this great social studies instructional strategy guide. It talks about the hard time that students have with reading social studies textbooks. They have a teacher start off a usual school year on the first day having the students pull out their books and turning to page 1 chapter 1. Almost all of the students have lost interest or have no ambition to go forward. Instead of doing this "old way", the teacher now uses a new strategy that he learned. He will have the students open up the table of contents and with a partner go through the entire table of contents and come up with questions that hey want. He then passes out a scavenger hunt worksheet. With their partners the students must find the answers to the fifteen questions on the scavenger hunt. He tells them all of the answers are there and by working with their partners it will allow the students to better engage their thought processes and will help them develop better understanding of the material. <br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/106010/chapters/Reading-Social-Studies-Texts.aspx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/106010/chapters/Reading-Social-Studies-Texts.aspx</a></div>

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  #2 Linda Clinton on 16 Apr 12

   

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