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Ascd: Building Literacy in Social Studies: Ch 1: Reading Social Studies Texts ArticleAscd: Building Literacy in Social Studies: Ch 1: Reading Social Studies Texts Article
Publisher
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
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6th - 8th
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Lexile Measures
1070L
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Ascd: Building Literacy in Social Studies: Ch 1: Reading Social Studies Texts

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Article provides excellent tips and strategies for building comprehension and critical thinking skills in Social Studies. It describes some of the challenges students have with reading and understanding their textbooks.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

critical thinking, reading comprehension

Additional Tags

fluent readers, struggling readers, association for supervision and curriculum development, by the end of grade 8, read and comprehend history/social studies texts in the grades 6-8 text complexity band independently and proficiently., ccss.ela-literacy.rh.6-8.10, common core literacy in social studies, literacy in history

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

Common Core

RH.6-8.10 RI.7.2 CCRA.R.2 RH.6-8.4 RI.6.5 CCRA.W.2 RI.7.5 RI.8.2 RI.6.6 RI.6.3 RST.6-8.10 CCRA.R.10 RI.6.2 RL.8.10 RI.8.5 RL.7.2 RI.7.6 RST.6-8.5

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