Reading History: A Practical Guide to Improving Literacy

Having trouble interesting your students in history or the history textbook? Concerned about the ability of your students to actually read the textbook? Learn ways to tie reading strategies to the learning of history, and discover sources that will help history come alive for your students.

Nationally known literacy advocate Janet Allen discusses strategies for teaching nonfiction reading using Joy Hakim's award winning A History of US series as the center of a blossoming campaign among educators to integrate literacy and history. Classroom tested at a variety of grade levels, real
student samples are interspersed throughout the book providing clearer understanding of the strategies in action.


Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 01/01/2005
ISBN: 9780195165968
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 9.26h x 7.50w x 0.52d