History Where You Live

History Where You Live: Connecting Students to the Past Through Local Archives. Guest post by Vicki Tobias Imagine your students gently flipping through a century-old

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Winning at STAAR

Year-Long Preparation For Texas teachers, preparing students for the U.S. History STAAR exam means more than covering content—it means teaching students to analyze, evaluate, and apply

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Reading Challenges

Getting kids to read informational text is always a challenge. Why not turn the challenge back on them? I have recently started writing a series

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Primary Source Practice

Primary Source Practice This spring, I had an epiphany! I was sitting down with a friend, planning out a new workshop on how to analyze

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Manipulatives and More!

Manipulatives can be an exciting tool to add to your teacher toolbox for Social Studies, they provide you many opportunities to both teach and practice

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Vocabulary Instruction

                Abolitionist, expedition, alliance, excerpt – all of these are words your students are expected to read and understand

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