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Literature and Social Studies

Literature and Social Studies. The Benefits of Using Literature in Social Studies. Helps students understand the human experience across time and place. Extends the social studies curriculum beyond any textbook constraints.

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Literature and Social Studies

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  1. Literature and Social Studies

  2. The Benefits of Using Literature in Social Studies • Helps students understand the human experience across time and place. • Extends the social studies curriculum beyond any textbook constraints. • Assists students in understanding figurative language, style, irony, point of view, and theme.

  3. Helps children understand their cultural, ethnic and religious heritage in both fiction and nonfiction. • Provides students with new information and knowledge unobtainable in any other format. • Help students make a personal connection and build background. • Stimulates creative thinking and problem solving abilities in a variety of contexts.

  4. Sites to Help • http://www.carolhurst.com/index.html • http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/ • http://www.udel.edu/dssep/literature.html • http://edsitement.neh.gov/subject/history-social-studies

  5. Additional Materials • Exploring Social Studies Through Children’s Literature http://www.naeyc.org/files/yc/file/200509/SocialStudiesBooksBTJ905.pdf • A Bibliography of Books with Children’s Social Studies Themes http://www.michigan.gov/documents/Social_Studies_Trade_Books_42259_7.pdf • Connecting Social Studies and Children’s Literature http://blog.richmond.edu/openwidelookinside/archives/22

  6. Finance in the Classroomhttp://financeintheclassroom.org/passport/first/social_studies.shtmlAnd……Lesson Planshttp://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/LPview.cgi?core=4

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