Build literacy skills and social studies content-area knowledge while cultivating students' curiosity about the world around them and their connections to it. This non-textbook social studies curriculum offers an integrated ELA approach to specifically address Kentucky content standards for social studies, English language arts, and English language development.
This series features dynamic student texts, creative lesson plans, inquiry-based analysis of primary sources, interactive student engagement, and integrated technology. Seamlessly integrate social studies instruction into the ELA block with everything needed to support instruction and the flexibility of multiple instructional settings. Take the guesswork out of what materials to use with historically accurate content that fully aligns to Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS) for Social Studies.
Exploring Social Studies: Kentucky: Grade 1 Kit includes:
Cultivate students’ curiosity about historical events with dynamic primary source readers and leveled reader’s theater scripts.
Equip teachers with the tools they need to become social studies experts with easy-to-use lesson plans. Exploring Social Studies uses an integrated ELA approach to specifically address state content standards for history-social science, English language arts, and English language development.
Breathe life into the pages of history with firsthand accounts of historical events! Students will learn history hands-on by diving deeper into the content instead of through rote memorization.
The student handbook provides opportunities for meaningful application of literacy skills and social studies concepts through engaging activities.
Facilitate implementation with a standards alignment, a scope and sequence, and pacing plans.
Digital resources support small- and whole-group instruction with an emphasis on interactive student engagement and integrated technology. Instruction is enhanced and supported with audio files of each book that model fluent reading, PDF eBooks, student reproducibles, and additional digital resources.
