ELM 460

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Integrating Literacy in Social Studies

Social Studies and The Curriculum Skills

Kindergarten Self and Family/Families Around The World First Grade Neighborhoods and Communities Around The World

http://www.ncpublicschools.org/docs/curriculum/socialstudies/elementary/transitionalmaterialsk1.pdf

Second Grade Regions: Local, State, United States, and World Third Grade Citizenship: People Making A Difference Fourth Grade North Carolina: Geography and History

http://www.ncpublicschools.org/docs/curriculum/socialstudies/elementary/transitionalmaterials23.pdf

Fifth Grade United States History, Canada, Mexico, and Central America

http://www.ncpublicschools.org/docs/curriculum/socialstudies/elementary/transitionalmaterials5.pdf

Places to Visit: Kindergarten: Fire Station Neighborhood Stores Neighborhood/Community Festivals Bank Public Library Local History Museums Farms City Park Invite Community Guests

1st Grade: Police Station Amtrak Trip to neighboring cities Local History Museums Post Office City Park Public Library Local Businesses Voting Polls Include Community Service Project

2nd Grade: Art Museums Local History Museum Local Businesses Historic Communities Historic Landmarks/Monuments Cultural Fairs/Festivals Voting Polls Include Community Service Project

3rd Grade: Local Businesses Historic Landmarks/Monuments Local Newspaper Cultural Fairs/Festivals Voting Polls Include Community Service Project

4th Grade: NC State Capital Buildings NC Museum of History Local Museums of History Local Museums of Art Governor’s Executive Mansion Native American Museum African American Museum Historic Landmarks in Regions of NC Diverse Ethnic Restaurants Cultural Fairs/Festivals Mayor’s Office Voting Polls Include Community Service Project

5th Grade: Virtual Field Trips Art Museum History Museum Symphony Cultural Fairs/Festivals Voting Polls Include Community Service Project

Skills Developed in Elementary School

http://www.ncpublicschools.org/docs/curriculum/socialstudies/elementary/nicky.pdf

Using Textbooks in Social Studies

Using Textbooks in Social Studies: Jennifer, Allison, Marsha, Emily textbooks play a central role in all classroom instruction. There are several ways to incorporate textbooks into elem. social studies instruction, incl. using the textbook for background reading as well as reading for analytical and skills based purposes. Textbooks can be useful, but also have significant limitations. Textbooks typically have little narrative value and they often lack the coherience of historical fiction and other single author works

Reading and Social Studies

Approaches to reading can be categorized by answer the following three questions:

How would a written source benefit students when learning about a certain subject? What are the conditions for the reading activity? How should the reading resource be adapted and contextualized?

Teachers need to consider background knowledge when planning instruction. There are three types of forms of reading that teachers can incorporate, silent reading, group reading, and teacher directed reading. Time is the most important factor to consider, and the teacher should give students about 10 to 15 minutes. There are four specific approaches to reading; these are pop-up reading, reading buddies, reading festival, and shadow reading. Pop-up reading is when one students reads and calls on another student to read. This helps students to following along while their peers have turns reading. Reading buddies allow students to use cooperative methods to strengthen reading skills. A reading festival is when one book is taken, for example on Chinese culture and students to and create activities that relate to the book. Shadow reading is when the students read silently and then explain what they just read to a group or another individual. This helps students with reading comprehension.

Authentic Learning Materials

-Trade books: Are typically in limited curriculum and have a very specific audiences. -Historical Documents: Use of these has dramatically increased in the last two decades and has enhanced students' ability to learn. -Artifacts: Authentic resource created through human work; tools, weapons, ornaments. -Newspapers and Magazines: Provide valuable subject matter for learning as well as opportunities for students to learn how to engage resources. -Web Sites and Web Logs: Quality can sometimes be questionable. Enables teachers to present and teach critical media skills that will enable students to make effective use of these resources.

Authentic Texts John Dewey believed authentic learning was a necessary learning experience that combined real life situations every social studies class should partake in. Students should be interested in the subject matter at hand in order for the curriculum to be successful. Recently, Fred Newmann develop authentic intellectual work. This includes three criteria: construction of knowledge, disciplined inquiry, and value beyond school. Literacy skills are necessary in social studies and should be used in questioning when developing higher level thinking skills.

Writing in Social Studies

- Most common form of expression when conveying knowledge

- Social studies is most important class to develop student writing skills besides language arts.

- 3 basic processes

  + Prewriting - Pick topic, gather/organize ideas
  + Drafting - Write ideas in a composition, grammar is not strssed at this phase
  + Revising - Take a 2nd look @ initial draft
             - Refine content, organization, and word choice
             - Focus on spelling/grammar

- Encourage all forms of writing: helps children understand S.S. content

- Approaches to encourage writing

  + Writing Aloud – write emerging thoughts after a presentation
  + Concept Writing – Write what you know 
                    - Write 2nd version of understanding 
                    - Share with class	
  + Writing It Out – Write 3-5 solutions to problem

- Explore all solutions - Figure out BEST solution

Notable trade books for young people:

1. 50 American Heroes Every Kid Should Meet- 50 people come from all parts of society and show that everyday individuals can become heroes. 2. Theories of Relativity- about a 16 year old who struggles to find a safe place to sleep and enough food to eat. Shows what life is like on the streets for teenagers. 3. Recess at 20 Below- it's about recess in an elementary school in Alaska, and shows children can enjoy the same activities regardless of the temperature. 4. A Sweet Smell of Roses- Civil Rights movement through the eyes of 2 sisters. 5. Under the Persimmon Tree- story about a girl and a teacher living under the Taliban in Afghanistan. 6. Hidden Child- the author tells about how he hid as a young Jew in Europe during WWII. 7. Not Exactly Normal- a bunch of random historical events about people and how they’re connected.