Overview
This series was developed by Teacher Created Materials to provide teachers with the perfect mix of social studies content to help students comprehend historical events while building social studies literacy.
- Leveled readers feature primary sources, high-interest content, and visually appealing layouts
- Compelling nonfiction text develops academic vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency
- Each reader has a teacher-designed lesson which addresses reading, writing, and social studies objectives and serves as a crucial bridge between literacy and social studies
- Different assessment types provide multiple opportunities to check for understanding and develop students' document-based assessment skills
- Increase student engagement by integrating technology into instruction with Interactiv-eBooks (not included in all levels), audio recordings of books, and additional digital resources
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Interactiv-eBooks
- Guide students toward independent reading while exploring core concepts with the included Interactiv-eBooks.
- Benefit student learning in a variety of instructional settings, support English language acquisition, and extend content and literacy learning.
- Includes text-to-audio highlighting, professional audio recordings, interactive activities and response to literature prompts, whiteboard tools, and writing activities for multi-modal instruction and assessment.
Audio Recordings
- Professional audio recordings for each book serve as a model of fluent reading and support English language learners.
Digital Primary Sources
- Additional digital Primary Sources support the text and encourage inquiry-based learning environments.
- Prepare students for state and national tests that use document-based assessments.
- Provides teacher with background information and activity on the primary source to engage students in the content.
Teacher's Guide
- Primary Source Readers offers multiple opportunities to foster curiosity, study relationships, and reflect on new learning.
- Includes standards-based lessons to serve as bridge between reading and writing and content-area material to enhance cross-curricular learning opportunities.
- Focused lessons on one nonfiction reading skill and one writing skill. Provides lesson plans for each book, activity sheets, multiple-choice quizzes, and document-based assessments for easy teacher implementation.
Books
- Each leveled reader motivates students to want to read with high-interest content and engaging illustrations and photographs.The authentic reading experiences help students develop vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency skills.
- 16-18 titles, 6 copies each, 24-32 pages per book, all designed around primary sources that tell about the subject.
- Build conceptual social studies knowledge with leveled informational texts.
- Books are designed around primary sources to offer key information and support the subject.
Student Engagement
- Engages students and extends the reading experience beyond ELA class.
- Helps students develop skills, knowledge, and analytical abilities as they ask questions, think critically, make inferences, and develop reasoned explanations.
- Fosters a deeper understanding of events of the past to learn from as they plan and prepare for a better tomorrow.
- Builds literacy and social studies content knowledge with high-interest, appropriately-leveled nonfiction books.
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Primary Source Readers Sample Pages
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Building Knowledge and Vocabulary: Reading Complex Text Across the Content Areas
Students need to access rich, challenging text to develop knowledge, build vocabulary, and improve comprehension across the content areas.
As students tackle difficult text, a wide breadth of effective strategies are needed to uncover meaning and build students’ skillset.
In this workshop, educators will:
- Discover nuances within text that make it difficult
- Uncover student-centered ways to support knowledge and vocabulary development
- Encounter and practice strategies to empower students to conquer challenging text
Training Options
Workshop
On-Site Coaching
Best Practices Webinar
Get the Picture: Visual Literacy in Content-Area Instruction
Literacy learning is no longer limited to reading, writing, listening, and speaking; we must include visual communication and expand our definition of what it means to be literate.
This professional development workshop will provide teachers with new and engaging strategies to help students learn how to analyze and create through visual communication.
Based on practical research, this workshop offers concrete tools and techniques and a wide range of suggested visual texts to effectively use in the classroom from primary sources, to digital media and the visual-heavy world of 21st century learning.
Attendees will:
- Examine ways to incorporate visual texts into instruction, including what visual literacy lessons look like in the primary grades
- Practice instructional strategies and develop sample lessons for teaching students to read visual texts for understanding
- Practice and discover instructional strategies for guiding students to visually illustrate understanding, specifically targeting support for improving reading and writing
Training Options
Keynote Presentations and Webinars
Workshop
On-Site Coaching
Best Practices Webinar
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Related links
Correlations to National, State, and Province Standards
Primary Source Readers WIDA Correlations
AEP Golden Lamp Award
Teacher Raves from Scholastic Instructor® Magazine