In my experience of working with teachers and conducting workshops on how to integrate picture
books into the social studies curriculum, Jenna's initial response to using picture books is a common reaction.
Not exact matches
With this
book, you and your staff will learn: approaches to help poor readers develop good reading habits; ways to increase student interest in reading for pleasure; how to effectively incorporate reading
into subject areas such as
social studies, science, and math; examples of what works according to school personnel in regard to reading instruction; and how to motivate students to become engaged readers.
In that spirit, I kept looking for a
book that had a year's worth of meaningful and creative
social studies activities that I could incorporate
into my curriculum,» Peppercorn says.
It's evolved, of course, in the years since; unlike our list now, which is divided
into sections by curriculum use (mathematics, language arts,
social studies, and science), that first list was simply split
into picture
books, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
It consists of an intervention
into 126
books on the
social sciences: Marxism, psychoanalysis, linguistics, anthropology, philosophy, literary and art criticism, cultural
studies, and literature.
This
study into the reading patterns and choices of three - to six - year - old Aboriginal children revealed that children chose
books that promoted
social interactions between family members and wider
social networks.