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Reading Like a Historian: Teaching Literacy in Middle and High School History Classrooms―Aligned with Common Core State Standards 2nd Edition
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Featuring an expanded introduction, this award-winning bestseller has been updated to link curriculum to the Common Core State Standards.
This popular text shows how to apply Wineburg’s highly acclaimed approach to teaching― Reading Like a Historian―to middle and high school classrooms, increasing academic literacy and sparking 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. Primary documents, charts, graphic organizers, visual images, and political cartoons follow each essay, as well as suggestions for where to find additional resources on the Internet and guidance for assessing students’ understanding of core historical ideas.
Reading Like a Historian helps teachers use textbooks creatively and provides a wealth of ideas for how historical instruction can enhance students’ skills in reading comprehension.
- ISBN-10080775403X
- ISBN-13978-0807754030
- Edition2nd
- PublisherTeachers College Press
- Publication dateDecember 15, 2012
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions8.25 x 0.5 x 10.75 inches
- Print length168 pages
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“This is what research dissemination is all about if we ever want to make a positive difference in students’ lives and our own futures.”
―Teaching History: A Journal of Methods
“The Reading Like a Historian program…is getting a new wave of attention as teachers adapt to the Common Core State Standards in English/language arts. Those guidelines, adopted by all but four states, demand that teachers of all subjects help students learn to master challenging nonfiction and build strong arguments based on evidence.”
―Education Week Spotlight (July 30, 2012)
“All educators who want to promote deeper understanding should read and use this wonderful book.”
―Linda Darling-Hammond, Stanford University
“The focusing questions, the teaching tips, and the primary sources make it possible for any teacher of history and social studies to help students become more interested, careful, and effective in handling information.”
―Grant Wiggins, president, Authentic Education
“What a great resource for teachers of history! This book explains how teachers can help students bring a critical eye to history, teaching ways of thinking that they can use in all of their studies.”
―Diane Ravitch, New York University
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“The focusing questions, the teaching tips, and the primary sources make it possible for any teacher of history and social studies to help students become more interested, careful, and effective in handling information.”
―Grant Wiggins, president, Authentic Education
“What a great resource for teachers of history! This book explains how teachers can help students bring a critical eye to history, teaching ways of thinking that they can use in all of their studies.”
―Diane Ravitch, New York University
About the Author
Sam Wineburg is the Margaret Jacks Professor of Education and Professor of History (by courtesy) at Stanford University, and author of Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts. Daisy Martin is the Director of History Education at teachinghistory.org, the National History Education Clearinghouse funded by the U.S. Department of Education and housed at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Chauncey Monte-Sano is associate professor of education at the University of Michigan.
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- Publisher : Teachers College Press; 2nd edition (December 15, 2012)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 168 pages
- ISBN-10 : 080775403X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0807754030
- Item Weight : 13.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 8.25 x 0.5 x 10.75 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #148,210 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #75 in Social Studies Teaching Materials
- #198 in Common Core
- #396 in Reading & Phonics Teaching Materials
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Sam Wineburg (samwineburg.com) is the Margaret Jacks Professor of Education, Emeritus, at Stanford University. In the words of Lee Shulman, past president of the Carnegie Foundation, Wineburg “has not merely contributed to our understanding of how history is created, taught and learned; he has nearly single-handedly forged a distinctive field of research and a new educational literature.” Wineburg's interdisciplinary scholarship sits at the crossroads of three fields: history, cognitive science, and education, and his writing has appeared in such diverse outlets as Cognitive Science, the Journal of American History, the New York Times, TIME Magazine, and the Smithsonian. His work has been featured on C-SPAN, NPR, ABC News, the BBC, and stories about his work have appeared in newspapers throughout the world. Educated at Brown and Berkeley, he earned his PhD at Stanford in Psychological Studies in Education. In 2002, his book, Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past, won the Frederic W. Ness Award from the Association of American Colleges and Universities for scholarship that makes the most important contribution to the “improvement of Liberal Education and understanding the Liberal Arts.” He is the founder of the Stanford History Education Group (sheg.stanford.edu), whose free curriculum has been downloaded more than 14 million times. In 2007, he was awarded the American Historical Association’s “William Gilbert Prize” and in 2008 the “James Harvey Robinson Prize,” for the most important scholarship on the teaching of history and the most important teaching innovation, respectively. In 2013, he was inducted into the National Academy of Education and also named the Obama-Nehru Distinguished Chair by the US-India Fulbright Commission and spent four months crisscrossing India lecturing about his work. In 2018, his research group created a state-of-the-art curriculum on digital literacy (cor.stanford.edu) that has been recognized by UNESCO with its "Global Media and Information Literacy" award and been downloaded by thousands of schools all over the globe.
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