Investigate the struggles and triumphs of African Americans in United States history, from the hardships of slavery to the election of the nation's first African American president. The high-interest differentiated books in this kit make it a great resource for differentiating instruction and encouraging content-area literacy.
Focus On: African Americans kit includes:
Content-rich, age-appropriate readers complement social studies and language arts curricula. Each book in Primary Source Readers is designed around primary sources that tell about the subject and help prepare students for state and national tests with document-based questions.
Primary Source Readers offers multiple opportunities to foster curiosity, study relationships, and reflect on new learning. The standards-based lessons serve as a crucial bridge between reading and writing and content-area material. Each pair of readers has one nonfiction reading skill and one writing skill on which the lessons are focused.
Three kits from this series include an Interactiv-eBook for each title. These kits are:
Audio recordings of books model fluent reading and support English language learners.
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