Sentences with phrase «social studies textbooks»

This article describes a set of reading comprehension strategies designed for informational texts in social studies textbooks.

Studies showed that an average social studies textbook in junior high schools are as much as 11 years old.

What, besides the reading level, makes social studies textbooks hard to read?

Teachers can use these lesson plans to supplement social studies textbooks and academic articles.

When the Oakland, Calif., school board voted last spring to reject a set of social studies textbooks sanctioned by the state of California, most members probably knew they were taking a «road less traveled.»

Schools have typically exacerbated the problem by relying on a single - source curriculum design — purchasing multiple copies of the same science and social studies textbooks for every student.

In addition, Kathy served as a differentiation consultant for Pearson Learning's social studies textbook series for K — 5 (2013).

Harcourt Brace & Co. won a temporary injunction from a state court last month to postpone the district's purchase of English - language social studies textbooks.

A battle is raging in Dallas over which social studies textbooks should be used in the district's classrooms next year.

Posted on November 21, 2014 · From the Texas State Board of Education approving new social studies textbooks this week, to a brief Ebola scare at a Houston emergency room, to legal wrangling over a technicality in Governor Perry's criminal case: we discuss The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of this week's Houston news.

Learning from social studies textbooks.

Isabel L. Beck and Margaret G. McKeown («Questioning the Author: Making Sense of Social Studies») assert that social studies textbooks often lack explanations and connections among ideas and events.

«Climate change will be a key issue that future citizens of Texas will need to understand and confront, and they deserve social studies textbooks that reinforce good science and prepare them for the challenges ahead,» she said in a statement.

Another more realistic option is to increase the influence of NCSS on the publishers of social studies textbooks.

A news brief in the Nov. 20 issue of Education Week may have implied that Texas officials adopted one social studies textbook series.

Males dominate the curriculum in social studies textbooks.

I might not finish the social studies textbook, but... theres always next year!

A social studies textbook was attacked because a full - page photograph showed a large family gathered around a dinner table.

Written in a prose style by turns reminiscent of a government white paper (e.g., «while achieving the goal of free, standardized education is commendable») and a social studies textbook (e.g., «in 1907, Qatar's resources consisted of 1,430 camels, 240 horses, and 817 pearl boats»), this slender book is nonetheless packed with interesting information.

A kid doesn't have to run to his locker to get his social studies textbook if a geography question comes up during math class.

It's no wonder, writes James Loewen in Teaching What Really Happened, that the overwhelming majority of high school students rely on their social studies textbooks almost exclusively.

It's not unusual for a teacher to have a social studies textbook that is 10 - 15 years old.

Students often have a hard time making sense of their social studies textbooks — partly because these texts commonly lack explanation and connection among ideas and events.

The board was meeting with publishers to discuss revisions to social studies textbooks, in preparation for the final adoption vote on November 21.

Students may use this feature while reading literature or poetry as well as when studying from a science or social studies textbook.

In the final units of this module students stop using the example text provided in the Content Reader and begin working with their actual science and social studies textbooks!

In the 2016 - 17 school year, none of the social studies textbooks listed for use in the state's fourth grade classroom were published after 2005.

As a publisher of a social studies textbook for our state's history, in addition to the challenges described in this article, one of the biggest challenges we face is there is no standard way to do business with K - 12 schools because they vary in their technology deployment, how students access the ebooks (e.g. whether each student receives an account) and selling enhanced ebooks, note: not ePub3 or iBooks, in the App Store.

In Alabama, for example, where the state board of education adopts textbooks on a ten - year rotation in each subject due to the high costs of examining materials and purchasing new textbooks, social studies textbooks were approved in 2009 and will not be approved again until 2019; science books will not be adopted again until 2020.