Integrating Social Studies

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Integrating Social Studies Reading/Writing

• Kathy Cassioppi,
• Social Studies (K-12)
• Curriculum Coordinator
• November 13, 2009

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Essential Questions

• What does the structure of Social Studies
  curriculum in Rockford Public Schools look like
  and how does one grade level connect with the
  next?
• How can Social Studies serve as the value-added
  component to Reading Writing instruction?

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Social Studies Articulation K-9
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District Social Studies Framework

• District Website Social Studies Scope and
  Sequence (http//webs.rps205.com/curriculum/ssandv
  oc/SSArticulation.html)
• "We can not always build the future for our
  youth,
• but we can build our youth for the future.
• Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Best Practices for Social Studies

• Increase the in-depth study of topics or content
  in each social studies discipline and decrease
  cursory coverage of a lock step curriculum.
  Deeper understandings help student learn, retain,
  and apply skills and knowledge. Select the most
  important content and concepts, the most
  representative case studies, the most
  precedent-setting events that students must know
  and apply to their lives outside of school.

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Best Practices for Social Studies

• Increase activities that engage students in
  inquiry and problem solving about significant
  human issues.
• Increase student decision making and
  participation opportunities in school and in
  wider social, political, and economic affairs.
  Students need opportunities to practice
  participation skills to carry on our
  democratic republican form of government.

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Best Practices for Social Studies

• Integrate social studies disciplines within the
  field as well as with other areas of the
  curriculum.
• Help elementary students build on their prior
  knowledge from their experiences, television and
  the Internet by providing content moving beyond
  the traditional curriculum focus on family,
  neighborhood, and community.

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Best Practices for Social Studies

• Increase knowledge and awareness of global
  issues, ethnic groups and religious groups to
  help students understand the environment that
  surrounds them locally, nationally and
  internationally.
• Using multiple kinds of measures to assess
  student understandings and skills should happen
  throughout instruction. The spotlight is now on
  "what the student has learned" not on "what the
  teacher has taught."

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Best Practices for Social Studies

• Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
  (http//dpi.wi.gov/cal/ss-bestpract.html )

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Elementary Teachers Edition

• Unit Planner with Core Extend Lessons and Skill
  Lessons
• Core Lessons incorporate State Standards,
  included targeted reading skills with graphic
  organizers
• Extend Lessons dig deeper and enrichment
• Skill Lessons charts, graphs,
  maps, study skills,
  reading/thinking skills, etc.

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Elementary Teachers Edition

• Social Studies Independent Books
• Information about these is contained in the
  teacher manual at the start of the unit
• Three levels Extra Support (circle), On Level
  (triangle), and Challenge (square)
• Each teacher should have these in his/her
  classroom
• All centered around unit theme

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Elementary Teachers Edition

• Unit Bibliography recommendations of materials
  that would support the content of the unit
• Picture books
• Read alouds
• Reference books
• Independent readers

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Elementary Teachers Edition

• Reaching All Learners Extra Support, Challenge,
  ELL
• Center Activities/Cross-Curricular Activities
  Language Arts, Math, Science ,Music, Drama, Art,
  Physical Education
• Grades K-2 TEs have Opening Routines Daily
  Message, Look at a Map, Calendar and Holidays,
  and Daily Writing Prompts

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Elementary Teachers Edition

• Big Ideas Essential Questions for the Units
• Kindergarten What are some things that have
  changed over time?
• Grade 1 What choices do people make to get the
  things they want?
• Grade 2 Why is the world around you important in
  your life?
• Grade 3 In what ways are people all the same?
• Grade 4 What do you like most about the place
  where you live?
• Grade 5 What does freedom mean to you?

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Elementary Teachers Edition

• Critical Thinking for each Core Lesson,
  identifies skills and assists with Think Aloud
• Analyze
• Cause Effect
• Compare
• Draw Conclusions
• Evaluate
• Fact Opinion
• Infer
• Synthesize

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Elementary Teachers Edition

• Performance Rubrics
• Writing Rubrics
• Reaching All Learners
• Background, Extra Support, On Level, Challenge,
  ELL, Literature suggestions
• Additional Language Arts, Math, Science, Art,
  Music, Physical Education, Drama suggestions as
  to how to integrate Social Studies concepts
  within other areas

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Elementary Teachers Edition

• Using Videotapes
• Family Newsletters
• Graphic Organizers
• Outline Maps
• Vocabulary Cards

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Student Edition

• Unit Vocabulary Preview 4 words with actual
  photographs when possible (you are there for
  the students)
• Can include
• Character Traits
• Geographic Terms
• Gazetteer
• Atlas
• Picture Glossary
• Holidays
• Historical Documents
• United States Presidents
• Biographical Dictionary
• Facts to Know State Databank / The 50 United
  States

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Student Edition

• Grades K-3 Main ideas are underlined in blue
  with a blue icon labeled main idea
• Grades 4-5 Main ideas are stated under large red
  headings in the lessons
• Illuminates a very
  important reading skill

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Social Studies Read Aloud

• Houghton Mifflin has included a Teacher Read
  Aloud for each unit in order for teachers to
  model fluency, pronunciation, etc.
• Activate Prior Knowledge
• Preview the Chapter
• Read-Aloud Vocabulary
• Preview the Reading Strategy for Grades 1-5 only

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Social Studies Read Aloud

• Using Social Studies materials provides many
  opportunities for the teacher to teach expository
  text
• The teacher can guide students to apply
  comprehension
  strategies when
  reading Social Studies
  
  materials

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Social Studies Shared Reading

• Big Books (Grades K-1)
• Skill Lessons
• Map Globe
• Chart Graph
• Study Skills
• Reading Thinking
• Citizenship
• Reading Skills / Graphic Organizer
• Extend Lessons include poems, songs, literature,
  Readers Theater and connect to the lesson

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Social Studies Guided Reading

• Social Studies Independent Books sets are in
  the classroom (3 levels Extra Support, On
  Level, and Challenge)
• Leveled Readers sets are in the Book Room (4
  levels Language Support (diamond) added), Irene
  Fountas, consulting author
• Both types focus on the theme of the unit

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Social Studies Reading Workshop

• Within the text, students have direct connections
  to reading strategies
• Core Lessons offer opportunities to answer the
  Essential Questions
• Extend Lessons provide opportunities for
  discussions on literature

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Social Studies Independent Reading

• Social Studies Independent Books in each
  classroom
• Extend Lessons offer additional avenues to
  enrich and
  extend the lesson

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Social Studies Writing

• Opportunities abound in Social Studies!
• Critical Thinking within lesson and in the Lesson
  Review lends itself to Extended Response
• Cross-Curricular Activities Write a Letter
  (Grade 4 Ask students to write a letter to
  a friend or family member in which they describe
  their feelings about their new homes. In their
  letters, they should refer to the land, climate,
  plants, animals, economy, and history of the
  area.)

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Social Studies Writing

• Write a Journal Entry (Grade 3 Have students
  think about what it would be like to be travelers
  passing through Navajo land 200 years ago. Ask
  them to write a journal entry describing the
  traditional way of life. Suggest that they
  include facts about Navajo farming, herding,
  weaving, building homes, and
  holding ceremonies.

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Social Studies Writing

• Write a Newspaper Article
• Create Math Word Problems
• Write a Questionnaire
• Make a Comic Strip
• Write a Poem
• Prepare an Oral Report
• And more!

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Middle School Social Studies

• Grade 6 Glencoes Journey Across Time The
  Early Ages
• Grades 7 8 Glencoes
  The American Journey

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Middle School Social Studies

• Textbooks have similar features to facilitate
  understanding the structure of the text (SQ3R)
• Reading Strategies are built into the text
• Use of Foldables Graphic Organizers as reading
  and vocabulary strategies and study guides

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Middle School Social Studies

• Consult Social Studies Coordinator for more
  details!
  [phone] or
  CassioK_at_rps205.com

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District Social Studies Website

• Your source for Social Studies information
• http//webs.rps205.com/curriculum/ssandvoc/

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Questions, Comments?

• Thank you!