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Reading Like a Historian Teaching Literacy in Middle and High School History Classrooms

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ISBN-10: 0807752134

ISBN-13: 9780807752135

Edition: 2011

Authors: Sam Wineburg, Daisy Martin, Chauncey Monte-Sano

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This practical resource shows you how to apply Sam Wineburg's highly acclaimed approach to teaching, Reading Like a Historian, in your middle and high school classroom to increase academic literacy and spark students' curiosity. Each chapter begins with an introductory essay that sets the stage of a key moment in American history, beginning with exploration and colonization and the events at Jamestown and ending with the Cuban Missile Crisis. Following each essay are all the materials you'll need to teach this topic, primary documents, charts, graphic organizers, visual images, and political cartoons, as well as suggestions for where to find additional resources on the Internet and guidance…    
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Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University
Publication date: 6/10/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 8.25" wide x 10.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.880

Professor of Educational Psychology and Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Washington, Sam Wineburg is author of the forthcoming Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts.