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Title: Integrating Social Studies


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Integrating Social Studies Reading/Writing
  • Kathy Cassioppi,
  • Social Studies (K-12)
  • Curriculum Coordinator
  • November 13, 2009

2
Essential Questions
  • What does the structure of Social Studies
    curriculum in Rockford Public Schools look like
    and how does one grade level connect with the
    next?
  • How can Social Studies serve as the value-added
    component to Reading Writing instruction?

3
Social Studies Articulation K-9
4
District Social Studies Framework
  • District Website Social Studies Scope and
    Sequence (http//webs.rps205.com/curriculum/ssandv
    oc/SSArticulation.html)
  • "We can not always build the future for our
    youth,
  • but we can build our youth for the future.
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

5
Best Practices for Social Studies
  • Increase the in-depth study of topics or content
    in each social studies discipline and decrease
    cursory coverage of a lock step curriculum.
    Deeper understandings help student learn, retain,
    and apply skills and knowledge. Select the most
    important content and concepts, the most
    representative case studies, the most
    precedent-setting events that students must know
    and apply to their lives outside of school.

6
Best Practices for Social Studies
  • Increase activities that engage students in
    inquiry and problem solving about significant
    human issues.
  • Increase student decision making and
    participation opportunities in school and in
    wider social, political, and economic affairs.
    Students need opportunities to practice
    participation skills to carry on our
    democratic republican form of government.

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Best Practices for Social Studies
  • Integrate social studies disciplines within the
    field as well as with other areas of the
    curriculum.
  • Help elementary students build on their prior
    knowledge from their experiences, television and
    the Internet by providing content moving beyond
    the traditional curriculum focus on family,
    neighborhood, and community.

8
Best Practices for Social Studies
  • Increase knowledge and awareness of global
    issues, ethnic groups and religious groups to
    help students understand the environment that
    surrounds them locally, nationally and
    internationally.
  • Using multiple kinds of measures to assess
    student understandings and skills should happen
    throughout instruction. The spotlight is now on
    "what the student has learned" not on "what the
    teacher has taught."

9
Best Practices for Social Studies
  • Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
    (http//dpi.wi.gov/cal/ss-bestpract.html )

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Elementary Teachers Edition
  • Unit Planner with Core Extend Lessons and Skill
    Lessons
  • Core Lessons incorporate State Standards,
    included targeted reading skills with graphic
    organizers
  • Extend Lessons dig deeper and enrichment
  • Skill Lessons charts, graphs,
    maps, study skills,
    reading/thinking skills, etc.

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Elementary Teachers Edition
  • Social Studies Independent Books
  • Information about these is contained in the
    teacher manual at the start of the unit
  • Three levels Extra Support (circle), On Level
    (triangle), and Challenge (square)
  • Each teacher should have these in his/her
    classroom
  • All centered around unit theme

12
Elementary Teachers Edition
  • Unit Bibliography recommendations of materials
    that would support the content of the unit
  • Picture books
  • Read alouds
  • Reference books
  • Independent readers

13
Elementary Teachers Edition
  • Reaching All Learners Extra Support, Challenge,
    ELL
  • Center Activities/Cross-Curricular Activities
    Language Arts, Math, Science ,Music, Drama, Art,
    Physical Education
  • Grades K-2 TEs have Opening Routines Daily
    Message, Look at a Map, Calendar and Holidays,
    and Daily Writing Prompts

14
Elementary Teachers Edition
  • Big Ideas Essential Questions for the Units
  • Kindergarten What are some things that have
    changed over time?
  • Grade 1 What choices do people make to get the
    things they want?
  • Grade 2 Why is the world around you important in
    your life?
  • Grade 3 In what ways are people all the same?
  • Grade 4 What do you like most about the place
    where you live?
  • Grade 5 What does freedom mean to you?

15
Elementary Teachers Edition
  • Critical Thinking for each Core Lesson,
    identifies skills and assists with Think Aloud
  • Analyze
  • Cause Effect
  • Compare
  • Draw Conclusions
  • Evaluate
  • Fact Opinion
  • Infer
  • Synthesize

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Elementary Teachers Edition
  • Performance Rubrics
  • Writing Rubrics
  • Reaching All Learners
  • Background, Extra Support, On Level, Challenge,
    ELL, Literature suggestions
  • Additional Language Arts, Math, Science, Art,
    Music, Physical Education, Drama suggestions as
    to how to integrate Social Studies concepts
    within other areas

17
Elementary Teachers Edition
  • Using Videotapes
  • Family Newsletters
  • Graphic Organizers
  • Outline Maps
  • Vocabulary Cards

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Student Edition
  • Unit Vocabulary Preview 4 words with actual
    photographs when possible (you are there for
    the students)
  • Can include
  • Character Traits
  • Geographic Terms
  • Gazetteer
  • Atlas
  • Picture Glossary
  • Holidays
  • Historical Documents
  • United States Presidents
  • Biographical Dictionary
  • Facts to Know State Databank / The 50 United
    States

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Student Edition
  • Grades K-3 Main ideas are underlined in blue
    with a blue icon labeled main idea
  • Grades 4-5 Main ideas are stated under large red
    headings in the lessons
  • Illuminates a very
    important reading skill

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Social Studies Read Aloud
  • Houghton Mifflin has included a Teacher Read
    Aloud for each unit in order for teachers to
    model fluency, pronunciation, etc.
  • Activate Prior Knowledge
  • Preview the Chapter
  • Read-Aloud Vocabulary
  • Preview the Reading Strategy for Grades 1-5 only

21
Social Studies Read Aloud
  • Using Social Studies materials provides many
    opportunities for the teacher to teach expository
    text
  • The teacher can guide students to apply
    comprehension
    strategies when
    reading Social Studies

    materials

22
Social Studies Shared Reading
  • Big Books (Grades K-1)
  • Skill Lessons
  • Map Globe
  • Chart Graph
  • Study Skills
  • Reading Thinking
  • Citizenship
  • Reading Skills / Graphic Organizer
  • Extend Lessons include poems, songs, literature,
    Readers Theater and connect to the lesson

23
Social Studies Guided Reading
  • Social Studies Independent Books sets are in
    the classroom (3 levels Extra Support, On
    Level, and Challenge)
  • Leveled Readers sets are in the Book Room (4
    levels Language Support (diamond) added), Irene
    Fountas, consulting author
  • Both types focus on the theme of the unit

24
Social Studies Reading Workshop
  • Within the text, students have direct connections
    to reading strategies
  • Core Lessons offer opportunities to answer the
    Essential Questions
  • Extend Lessons provide opportunities for
    discussions on literature

25
Social Studies Independent Reading
  • Social Studies Independent Books in each
    classroom
  • Extend Lessons offer additional avenues to
    enrich and
    extend the lesson

26
Social Studies Writing
  • Opportunities abound in Social Studies!
  • Critical Thinking within lesson and in the Lesson
    Review lends itself to Extended Response
  • Cross-Curricular Activities Write a Letter
    (Grade 4 Ask students to write a letter to
    a friend or family member in which they describe
    their feelings about their new homes. In their
    letters, they should refer to the land, climate,
    plants, animals, economy, and history of the
    area.)

27
Social Studies Writing
  • Write a Journal Entry (Grade 3 Have students
    think about what it would be like to be travelers
    passing through Navajo land 200 years ago. Ask
    them to write a journal entry describing the
    traditional way of life. Suggest that they
    include facts about Navajo farming, herding,
    weaving, building homes, and
    holding ceremonies.

28
Social Studies Writing
  • Write a Newspaper Article
  • Create Math Word Problems
  • Write a Questionnaire
  • Make a Comic Strip
  • Write a Poem
  • Prepare an Oral Report
  • And more!

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Middle School Social Studies
  • Grade 6 Glencoes Journey Across Time The
    Early Ages
  • Grades 7 8 Glencoes
    The American Journey

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Middle School Social Studies
  • Textbooks have similar features to facilitate
    understanding the structure of the text (SQ3R)
  • Reading Strategies are built into the text
  • Use of Foldables Graphic Organizers as reading
    and vocabulary strategies and study guides

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Middle School Social Studies
  • Consult Social Studies Coordinator for more
    details!
    (815) 966-8918 or
    CassioK_at_rps205.com

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District Social Studies Website
  • Your source for Social Studies information
  • http//webs.rps205.com/curriculum/ssandvoc/

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