Building Students' Historical Literacies: Learning to Read and Reason with Historical Texts and Evidence

How can teachers incorporate the richness of historical resources into classrooms in ways that are true to the discipline of history and are pedagogically sound? This book explores the notion of historical literacy, adopts a research-supported stance on literacy processes, and promotes the integration of content-area literacy instruction into history content teaching. It is unique in its focus on the discipline-specific literacies of historical inquiry. Addressing literacy from a historian’s rather than a a literacy specialist’s point of view, this book surveys a broad range of texts including those that historians and non-historians both use and produce in understanding history; and includes a wide variety of practical instructional strategies immediately available to teachers. History teachers who read this book will receive the practical tools they need in order to help their students reach the national standards for history teaching. With the recent inclusion of a historical literacy component of the English Language Arts Common Core Standards Initiative, this book is also highly relevant to English, language arts, and reading teachers, who are expected, under the new guidelines, to engage their students in historical reading and writing. Visit historicalliteracies.byu.edu for additional information and resources on teaching historical literacies.

History

Nokes, Jeffery D.

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Routledge

Learn how to design history lessons that foster students’ knowledge, skills, and dispositions for civic engagement. Each section of this practical resource introduces a key element of civic engagement, such as defending the rights of others, advocating for change, taking action when problems are observed, compromising to promote reform, and working with others to achieve common goals. Primary and secondary sources are provided for lessons on diverse topics such as Alice Paul and the Silent Sentinels, Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor, Harriet Tubman, Reagan and Gorbachev’s unlikely friendship, and Lincoln’s plan for reconstructing the Union. With Teaching History, Learning Citizenship, teachers can show students how to apply historical thinking skills to real-world problems and to act on civic dispositions to make positive changes in their communities. Book Features: <ul>
<li>Ready-to-use lessons on important historical topics that are likely already part of the history curriculum. </li> <li>Materials that allow teachers flexibility in the way lessons are designed. </li> <li>Lessons aligned with important civic engagement themes, including ideas for additional historical topics that are useful to teach similar material. </li> <li>Strategies to help teachers facilitate the transfer of thinking skills and concepts (such as empathy, corroboration, and historiography) into the realm of civic engagement. </li> <li>Background knowledge customized for use with the documents included in the book.</li>
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Teaching History, Learning Citizenship: Tools for Civic Engagement

Americas

Teachers' College Press

Learn how to design history lessons that foster students' knowledge, skills, and dispositions for civic engagement. Each section of this practical resource introduces a key element of civic engagement, such as defending the rights of others, advocating for change, taking action when problems are observed, compromising to promote reform, and working with others to achieve common goals. Primary and secondary sources are provided for lessons on diverse topics such as the Alice Paul and the Silent Sentinels, Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor, Harriet Tubman, Reagan and Gorbachev's unlikely friendship, and Lincoln's plan for Reconstructing the Union. With Teaching History, Learning Citizenship, teachers can show students how to apply historical thinking skills to real world problems and to act on civic dispositions to make positive changes in their communities. Book Features:   Ready-to-use lessons on important historical topics that are likely already part of the history curriculum.  Materials that allow teachers flexibility in the way lessons are designed.  Lessons aligned with important civic engagement themes, including ideas for additional historical topics that are useful to teach similar themes.  Strategies to help teachers facilitate the transfer of thinking skills and concepts (such as empathy, corroboration, and historiography) into the realm of civic engagement.  Background knowledge customized for use with the documents included in the book.

Building Students' Historical Literacies

Product Description How can teachers incorporate the richness of historical resources into classrooms in ways that are true to the discipline of history and are pedagogically sound? Now in its second edition, this book explores the notion of historical literacy, adopts a research-supported stance on literacy processes, and promotes the integration of content-area literacy instruction into history content teaching. Providing an original focus on the discipline-specific literacies of historical inquiry, the new edition presents a deeper examination of difficult histories and offers new strategies that can be applied to all genres of historical inquiry. Nokes surveys a broad range of texts, including those that historians and nonhistorians both use and produce in understanding history, and provides a wide variety of practical instructional strategies immediately available to teachers. Featuring new examples and practical resources, the new edition highlights the connection between historical literacies and the critical reading and communication skills that are necessary for informed civic engagement.Equipped with study guides, graphic organizers, and scoring guides for classroom use, this text is an essential resource for preservice and practicing teachers in literacy and social studies education. About the Author Jeffery D. Nokes is a professor in the History Department at Brigham Young University, where he helps direct the history teaching and social science teaching programs.

Building Students' Historical Literacies: Learning to Read and Reason With Historical Texts and Evidence

How can teachers incorporate the richness of historical resources into classrooms in ways that are true to the discipline of history and are pedagogically sound? Now in its second edition, this book explores the notion of historical literacy, adopts a research-supported stance on literacy processes, and promotes the integration of content-area literacy instruction into history content teaching. Providing an original focus on the discipline-specific literacies of historical inquiry, the new edition presents a deeper examination of difficult histories and offers new strategies that can be applied to all genres of historical inquiry. Nokes surveys a broad range of texts, including those that historians and nonhistorians both use and produce in understanding history, and provides a wide variety of practical instructional strategies immediately available to teachers. Featuring new examples and practical resources, the new edition highlights the connection between historical literacies and the critical reading and communication skills that are necessary for informed civic engagement. 
Equipped with study guides, graphic organizers, and scoring guides for classroom use, this text is an essential resource for preservice and practicing teachers in literacy and social studies education.

Great Plains Forts (Discover the Great Plains)

Buckley, Jay H.

Bison Books

With original primary source documents, this anthology brings readers into the vast unknown 19th-century American West―through the eyes of the explorers who saw it for the first time.
 • Collects primary source materials such as journal entries, book excerpts, and maps from various 19th-century American explorers, enabling readers to "discover" the vast unknown American West, as seen for the first time by those of European descent
• Includes a topical guide to aid readers in cross-referencing entries
• Presents illustrations and photographs as well as original textual documents and maps

Explorers of the American West: Mapping the World through Primary Documents

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

ABC-CLIO

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Building Students' Historical Literacies: Learning to Read and Reason with Historical Texts and Evidence

Building Students' Historical Literacies: Learning to Read and Reason with Historical Texts and Evidence

Teaching History, Learning Citizenship: Tools for Civic Engagement

Teaching History, Learning Citizenship: Tools for Civic Engagement

Building Students' Historical Literacies: Learning to Read and Reason With Historical Texts and Evidence

Building Students' Historical Literacies

Great Plains Forts (Discover the Great Plains)

Explorers of the American West: Mapping the World through Primary Documents