Beyond the Textbook
Using Trade Books and Databases to Teach Our Nation's History, Grades 7â12
- 196 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Beyond the Textbook
Using Trade Books and Databases to Teach Our Nation's History, Grades 7â12
About This Book
This collection of standards-based lessons will guide middle and high school teachers while teaching the nation's history in a user-friendly, ready-made fashion. During a time of standards-based instruction, Beyond the Textbook: Using Trade Books and Databases to Teach Our Nation's History, Grades 7â12 will fill the gap in today's middle and high school classrooms to simultaneously engage students in effective literacy skill exercises and teach our nation's history. Authored by three experienced former public school teachers, these ready-made lesson plans for classroom teachers and school librarians make planning easy for implementation in a social studies, history, or English classroom. The book covers topics from Native Americans to the Louisiana Purchase, offering evidence-based reading strategies throughout that can hold adolescents' attention and develop their vocabulary and comprehension. Each chapter will include bibliographic information; suggested grade level; Information Literacy and National Social Studies Standards; before, during, and after reading strategies; database integration for classroom use; and suggested readalikes. Users will find the standards and evidenced-based research perfectly applicable in today's classrooms.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Introduction
- 1 - Native Americans: An Introduction to Teaching This Time Period
- 2 - Native Americans: Book 1
- 3 - Native Americans: Book 2
- 4 - Spanish and French Explorers/Settlers: An Introduction to Teaching This Time Period
- 5 - Spanish and French Explorers/Settlers: Book 1
- 6 - Spanish and French Explorers/Settlers: Book 2
- 7 - English and Dutch Colonists: An Introduction to Teaching This Time Period
- 8 - English and Dutch Colonists: Book 1
- 9 - English and Dutch Colonists: Book 2
- 10 - The American Revolution: An Introduction to Teaching This Time Period
- 11 - The American Revolution: Book 1
- 12 - The American Revolution: Book 2
- 13 - Acquisition of New LandsâThe Louisiana Purchase: An Introduction to Teaching This Time Period
- 14 - Acquisition of New LandsâThe Louisiana Purchase: Book 1
- 15 - Acquisition of New LandsâThe Louisiana Purchase: Book 2
- Author Index
- Title Index