Instructional Strategies for Social Studies
| Reading Strategies for Social Studies - ppt |
"Content Literacy is the ability to use reading and writing for the acquisition of new content in a given discipline" -- McKenna and Robinson, 1990.
The purpose of these activities is to help teachers effectively engage students with difficult content in their classes using reading and writing strategies.
| Word Splash- MS Word Splash- HS |
| Word Splash is a pre-reading strategy that introduces students to key vocabulary and concepts.
| Concept Mastery Routine |
Concept Mastery helps students understand key concepts by following the steps in a graphic organizer.
| Chapter Tour |
| A Chapter Tour is a pre-reading strategy that introduces students through visual representation and organization to the overall theme of the reading, such as progress, change, or crisis.
| Graphic Notes |
| Graphic organizers that help students manage large amounts of text with a visual.
| Graphic Notes Sample |
| This Graphic Notes Sample (Muslims in the Modern World) is an example of taking key ideas from a large amount of text.
| Column Notes |
| Easy method for students to take notes based on the old Cornell Notes System.
| Discussion Web |
| A graphic organizer that helps students to participate actively in a group discussion.
| Discussion Web Sample |
| Did the Industrial Revolution help working people?
| Frame Routine |
A graphic organizer that helps students to summarize text into a manageable amount of vocabulary and key ideas. Excellent summarizataion tool.
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For more information about the Social Studies curriculum, contact:
Nancy Hester
Social Studies Curriculum Coordinator
Georgetown Independent School District
603 Lakeway Drive, Georgetown, TX 78628
(512) 943-5000 x. 7882
Email: hestern@georgetownisd.org
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