World History
One of the teachers in my department correctly pointed out that while I had a good post on judging reading levels, I did not have a way to help solve the problem since most of us cannot just send a student to a reading specialist without missing the content in our classroom.
So Pearson has a succinct description of how to improve reading many of which you might know such as pre-reading, reading groups, organizers (I love this one) and more. If you want more details here is a longer description of how to integrate reading strategies in your classroom go here.
- Content Area Textbooks: Friends Or Foes?
I have not had many teaching history related posts lately. As such, I am happy to have chanced upon an older ERIC Digest post from 1989 that deals with the topic of textbooks. It is Content Area Textbooks: Friends or Foes? It was written by Patricia Tefft...
- The Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution - Introduction to the principal players in the revolution. It also has a reading list, sections about relevant topics and links to useful websites. From the site: The purpose of this website is to provide biographies of the main...
- Study Notes For Outlines
Mary Ward is going to be posting some ideas on my government blog and so from here I learned about Study Notes which has outlines for each chapter of world history. Obviously it is getting harder and harder for students to be assigned the traditional...
- Reading Comprehension & Learning Styles
At my school we are working on Tier 1, 2 and 3 learning which essentially asks the teacher to differentiate learning with your students who are not meeting all of your objectives. Two main items that we are looking at are learning styles and reading comprehension....
- Reading Like A Historian: Stanford University
This Stanford University site has some great resources on teaching history with primary resources. Here is a description of a new part of the site that I coped directly: Reading Like a Historian, a project developed in tandem with the San Francisco Unified...
World History
Reading Strategies
So Pearson has a succinct description of how to improve reading many of which you might know such as pre-reading, reading groups, organizers (I love this one) and more. If you want more details here is a longer description of how to integrate reading strategies in your classroom go here.
- Content Area Textbooks: Friends Or Foes?
I have not had many teaching history related posts lately. As such, I am happy to have chanced upon an older ERIC Digest post from 1989 that deals with the topic of textbooks. It is Content Area Textbooks: Friends or Foes? It was written by Patricia Tefft...
- The Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution - Introduction to the principal players in the revolution. It also has a reading list, sections about relevant topics and links to useful websites. From the site: The purpose of this website is to provide biographies of the main...
- Study Notes For Outlines
Mary Ward is going to be posting some ideas on my government blog and so from here I learned about Study Notes which has outlines for each chapter of world history. Obviously it is getting harder and harder for students to be assigned the traditional...
- Reading Comprehension & Learning Styles
At my school we are working on Tier 1, 2 and 3 learning which essentially asks the teacher to differentiate learning with your students who are not meeting all of your objectives. Two main items that we are looking at are learning styles and reading comprehension....
- Reading Like A Historian: Stanford University
This Stanford University site has some great resources on teaching history with primary resources. Here is a description of a new part of the site that I coped directly: Reading Like a Historian, a project developed in tandem with the San Francisco Unified...