Much More Social Studies Through Children's Literature

2007-04-30
Much More Social Studies Through Children's Literature

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  • Author: Anthony D. Fredericks
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • ISBN: 0313094667
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 277

Fredericks presents hundreds of hands-on, minds-on projects that actively engage students in positive learning experiences. Each of the units offers book summaries, social studies topic areas, critical thinking questions, classroom resources, and lots of easy-to-do activities for every grade level. The author also provides practical guidelines for collaborative ventures with school librarians, tips for integrating literature across the curriculum, lists of relevant web sites useful in social studies curriculum. Everything is linked to the social studies standards.

More Social Studies Through Childrens Literature

2000-02-15
More Social Studies Through Childrens Literature

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  • Author: Anthony D. Fredericks
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • ISBN: 0313078408
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 247

These dynamic literature-based activities will help you energize the social studies curriculum and implement national (and many of state) standards. Fredericks presents hundreds of hands-on, minds-on projects to stimulate actively and engage students in positive learning. Each of these 33 units offers book summaries, social studies topic areas, critical thinking questions, and dozens of easy-to-do activities for every grade level. The author also gives practical guidelines for integrating literature across the curriculum, lists of web sites useful in social studies classes, and annotated bibliographies of related resources.

Social Studies Through Children's Literature

1991-10-15
Social Studies Through Children's Literature

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  • Author: Anthony D. Fredericks
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • ISBN: 0313078424
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 210

Use this activity-centered, literature-based approach to get students excited about social studies. These 32 units have summaries of books, social studies topic areas, lists of content-related words, curricular perspectives, and critical-thinking questions, as well as myriad activities. Fredericks also gives you an excellent annotated bibliography of children's literature and a list of social studies resources.

Children's Literature in Social Studies

1998
Children's Literature in Social Studies

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  • Author: DeAn M. Krey
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Children
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 204

Manual aids teachers in selecting children's books that correlate with one or more of the ten thematic strands of social studies and provides sample social studies literature response activities. Annotated book lists given. Elementary.

Multicultural Children’s Literature

2010-04-22
Multicultural Children’s Literature

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  • Author: Ambika Gopalakrishnan
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications
  • ISBN: 1452212902
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 289

This book is designed to prepare K-12 preservice and inservice teachers to address the social, cultural, and critical issues of our times through the use of multicultural children's books. It will be used as a core textbook in courses on multicultural children's literature and as a supplement in courses on children's literature and social studies teaching methods. It can also be used as a supplement in courses on literacy, reading, language arts, and multicultural education.

Literature-Based Social Studies

1991
Literature-Based Social Studies

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  • Author: Mildred Knight Laughlin
  • Publisher: Greenwood
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 166

Grade level: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, k, p, e, i, t.

U.S. History Through Children's Literature

1997-03-15
U.S. History Through Children's Literature

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  • Author: Wanda Miller
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • ISBN: 0313079463
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 245

Allow students to step back in time to experience the thoughts, feelings, dilemmas, and actions of people from history. For each history topic, Miller suggests two titles-one for use with the entire class and one for use with small reading groups. Summaries of the books, author information, activities, and topics for discussion are supplemented with vocabulary lists and ideas for research topics and further reading. This integrated approach makes history meaningful to students and helps them retain historical details and facts.

Social Studies Discoveries on the Net

2000-10-15
Social Studies Discoveries on the Net

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  • Author: Anthony D. Fredericks
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • ISBN: 0313009635
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 289

Tap into the budding investigators within youngsters and help them connect to the incredible array of social studies knowledge and resources on the Internet. The 75 lessons in this book guide you and your students in exciting Internet projects that target specific content objectives for specific social studies concepts. Each unit includes activities, questions, and lists of relevant Web sites and related literature. A great way to motivate students, build online technology skills, and increase knowledge.

Multicultural American History

2003-09-08
Multicultural American History

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  • Author: Kay Chick
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • ISBN: 0313078025
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 161

This integrated teacher resource provides lesson ideas for the instruction of social studies and history concepts within the context of quality multicultural children's books and picture books. Each chapter focuses on three picture books related to various multicultural themes in American history. Chapters are organized chronologically, and by theme, and include book summaries, materials lists, student-centered activities, related books and poetry, and links to national history standards. Multicultural themes include: Old West American Revolution Slavery Civil War World War II and the Holocaust Vietnam Native Americans

Social Studies and Me!

2011
Social Studies and Me!

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  • Author: Sally Anderson
  • Publisher: Gryphon House Incorporated
  • ISBN: 9780876593318
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

Young children are naturally interested in their world. They are learning to understand who they are, who their family members are, and what it means to have friends. They are curious about their communities, who lives and works there, how things are made, and what they cost. They are beginning to ask questions about their environment and the greater world. With Social Studies and Me! teachers can support children's curiosity by using storybooks to engage them in social studies and literacy learning and deepen their understanding of skills and concepts. Themes include: I Am a Person; Families, Friends, Communities; and The Big World.