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KnowledgeBases > The Adolescent Literacy KnowledgeBase > Element 4 > Activity 1 > Task 6: Integrate with Social Sciences

Guideline:

Literacy plays an important part in social sciences. Fourth and fifth grade teachers can improve adolescent literacy through incorporating vocabulary instruction and comprehension strategy instruction in their lesson planning.  Possessing such an awareness enables fourth and fifth grade teachers to enhance instruction to facilitate student comprehension of social science concepts and build background knowledge for future learning.

Tools Adolescent Literacy Toolkit _EXTERNAL_LINK

This link to the Council of Chief State School Officers' Adolescent Literacy Toolkit provides resources for states and high school content area teachers.

Tools Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People _EXTERNAL_LINK

As noted at its website, "Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People is a reading list of exceptional books for use in social studies classrooms, selected by twelve social studies educators. This is an annual project of the National Council for the Social Studies and the Children's Book Council."

Practical Tips Integrating Literacy and History _EXTERNAL_LINK

This link to the Becoming Historians website offers strategies for integrating literacy with history in the elementary grades. As noted at its website, "the Becoming Historians Project is a collaboration between the New York City Department of Education and New York University."

References Bringing Literacy Strategies into Content Instruction _EXTERNAL_LINK

As noted in its introduction, this Center on Instruction document "provides research-based guidance on academic literacy instruction in the content areas." The vignettes offered provide examples of how literacy instruction can be integrated into content area instruction. 

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