Building Students' Historical Literacies Learning to Read and Reason with Historical Texts and Evidence

Name: Building Students' Historical Literacies Learning to Read and Reason with Historical Texts and Evidence
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ISBN: 9780415808989

ISBN-10: 0415808987

ISBN-13: 9780415808989

Edition: 2013

Authors: Jeffery Nokes

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How can teachers incorporate the richness of historical resources into classrooms in ways that are true to the discipline of history and are pedagogically sound? This book explores the notion of historical literacy, adopts a research-supported stance on literacy processes, and promotes the integration of content-area literacy instruction into history content teaching. It is unique in its focus on the discipline-specific literacies of historical inquiry. Addressing literacy from a historian’s rather than a a literacy specialist’s point of view, this book surveys a broad range of texts including those that historians and non-historians both use and produce in understanding history; and …

Book details

List price: $56.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 11/28/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



Foreword


Preface


Acknowledgements



Historical Literacies



Building Historical Literacies



Defining Historical Literacies



Teaching Historical Literacies



Developing an Appropriate Epistemic Stance for Working with Multiple Texts



Fluency with Strategies and Evidence



Using Historians' Heuristics for Working with Primary Sources



Helping Students Make Inferences with Artifacts



Developing Metaconceptual Understanding with Visual Texts



Developing Historical Empathy and Perspective Taking through Historical Fiction



Fostering Healthy Skepticism Using Textbooks and Secondary Sources



Avoiding Reductionist Thinking with Audio and Video Texts



Building an Argument with Quantitative Historical Evidence



Putting It All Together



Engaging in Critical Intertextual Analysis with Multimodal Texts



Finding a Pattern in Building Historical Literacies


References


Index