Sentences with phrase «school social studies text»

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Are you an elementary school teacher who took that ABC book to a new level or a social studies teacher who has made oral histories of local old - timers part of the community collection of text in the school and local libraries?

One of only two social - studies series approved by the California state school board last fall, Houghton Mifflin Company's new K - 8 social - studies texts have been praised by educators for the engaging style in which they are written and for including discussion of world religions and non-Western cultures.

Ann and Jeanette's colleague Jeffrey Bernadt (@JeffreyBernadt) elaborated on the concept and shared how he leveraged blended learning to provide his high school social studies students with multiple options for acquiring content knowledge — video, digital text, paper or e-books, or face - to - face conversation.

Alcott Elementary School, Concord This project will develop text sets and a variety of other more updated and relevant media resources for a third grade social studies unit to support the content so that all students can access the content and demonstrate their understanding of the values, beliefs and customs of indigenous peoples of the Northeast.

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As students progress from elementary school through high school, they need to rely on reading comprehension not only for their literature classes, but also for solving mathematical word problems and understanding texts in science, social studies, and other subjects.

In a grade - level high school science or social studies text, then, students will misread 10 — 25 words on every page!

Textbooks In middle school and high school, the most common text that students must read in their social studies courses is a textbook.

Most of those were selective - enrollment schools in CPS, including Skinner North Classical School, where, on a recent day this month, fifth - graders were working on sixth - grade material in social studies, weaving in the literacy goals and nonfiction text of the Common Core standards.

Preparing students for success in social studies courses and for civic competence beyond high school means preparing students to read and write these texts.

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Her research interests revolve around the intersection between the literacies and texts youth are asked to learn in the disciplines (particularly in science and social studies) and the literacies and texts they experience outside of school.

Literacy and text reading in middle and high school social studies and English language arts classrooms.

A recent study by University of California, Dominguez Hills, of middle school, high school, and university age students, «found that the average student studied for fewer than six minutes before switching tasks, often distracted by technology including social media or texting.»

An expectation for second - graders is that, by the end of the school year, they should be able to «read and comprehend informational texts, including history / social studies, science, and technical texts, in the grades 2 — 3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range» (RI.2.10.).