Description
Our students are struggling with reading – literacy rates across the country have dropped. Do you have the strategies you need to help students be successful reading Social Studies content?
This 120-page manual gives you more than 50 classroom-tested reading strategies for secondary Social Studies, organized by the three stages of reading, plus 40 pages of ready-to-print templates. No matter your subject, it helps you build content literacy into the lessons you already have—without reinventing your lessons.
What’s Inside:
• Start Here – the Social Studies Success® Framework, a Teacher Planning Guide, and a Quick Start Guide
• Before Reading – 15 strategies for background knowledge, vocabulary, and purpose, including Anticipation Guide, Card Sort, Crop-It, Primary Source Snapshot, and Artifact Examination
• During Reading – 16 strategies that keep students working through the text, including Text Coding, Annolighting, RAP-Q, Question Dice, and Beat the Teacher
• Active Note Making – graphic organizers grouped by Social Studies skill: sequencing, cause and effect, categorization, text dependent, and evidence-based
• After Reading – 12 strategies for processing and review, including Alpha Blocks, Character Maps, Dialogue Detectives, and I Am Poem
• Strategy Templates & Tools – 40 printable pages, including the Crop-It Tool, Doodle Notes™ layouts, photo analysis pages, and discussion sentence-stem cards
Every strategy fits on a single page — purpose, steps, benefits, and a real Social Studies example — with content drawn from actual U.S. History and Texas History lessons. Print what you need and use it with the reading you already assign.
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©Social Studies Success®. This purchase is for you and your classroom. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.
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