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Title: Painless Literacy Strategies for the Social Studies Classroom

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Painless Literacy Strategies for the Social
Studies Classroom

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First up? The easy stuff!

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Lets Do a Movie!

After you have previewed the movie, download
several images that are showcased as important.
Use the Movie Prediction Guide to direct
students during the viewing.
After viewing, students reflect upon what they
learned.

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Survival of the Fittest Strategy

Prepare clusters of 5 (or more) words, all
related except for 1.
Students eliminate one word from the clusters and
title the clusters.
Differentiation a) Higher students must replace
missing word. b) Lower students get shorter lists.

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Portable Word Wall

Use in a variety of ways, including
Place in students journals at the beginning of a
new topic/time period. Students fill in the word
and possibly a picture, definition, and/or
sentence.
Give students a topic to research and have them
create their own Word Walls.
Use it during movies students write words they
have questions about.

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Word Sort

VERY effective strategy!
Encourages higher order thinking.
Ways to use
Provide students with a word bank and have them
sort the words and give a label to each group of
words.
My personal favorite type and print all the
words in the word bank. Cut them apart and place
into envelopes. Students sort by hand and
identify categories.

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Word Sort (Continued)

Easy ways to differentiate
Struggling students get fewer words.
Students needing a challenge can get more words,
and/or have to rationalize ways to fit words into
more than one category.

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Think-Pair-Share

Assign students a word.
Students write about what they understand about
the word.
Students pair up with a partner, they
discuss/compare understandings about the word.
Students then create a nonlinguistic
representation of the word to teach it to the
class. (drawing, skit, etc)

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How to Be Poems

Easy, quick strategy
Students write How to Be a historical figure,
body system, mathematical term, etc.
Great, easy way to teach summarizing and
important details

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Example How to Be Ben Franklin

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Talking Drawings

One of my favorite strategies!
Give students a topic. Ex Jamestown.
Students visualize Jamestown and draw what they
see.
Students read a selection (text, summaries, etc.
History Alive lends itself well to this strategy
because information is chunked.)
Students visualize again and draw new pictures.
Students explain what is different between the
two.

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Knowledge Rating Scale

Great to help the teacher assess understanding.
I use this similarly to a pretest, and we add on
and make changes throughout the unit.
By the end of the unit, the definitions for all
words should be completed.

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Sketching Through Text

Ways I use this
Within a chapter of the text, I have students
sketch the main idea of each chunk or topic and
label it.
Using short informational handouts, students
sketch different aspects of a topic. For
example, for Colonial Life, students might do
school, clothing, jobs, foods, recreation, and
children's roles.

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More ideas for Sketching Through Text

Bill of Rights students read about and sketch
different amendments.
Colonies students research and sketch different
colonies.
Adjust the number of boxes as you wish. I
sometimes just have the students fold paper into
3, 4, or 6 sections and draw in each section
rather than copying the template.

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