Studies Weekly

JUNE 3, 2024

Take some time for yourself to be outdoors, read that book you have been waiting to pick up, or catch up on some much-needed sleep. Are you taking time for self-care? Are you collaborating to help you be efficient and effective? Who can you talk to if you feel overwhelmed?

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Studies Weekly

JULY 9, 2024

One school in Connecticut reported that many of their teachers had to start the 2022 school year with the basics — showing students how to hold a book, or reviewing the ABCs and letter sounds, according to a 2022 New York Times article by Dana Goldstein. Help your students improve their reading scores! Get a Studies Weekly free trial today!

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Studies Weekly

JUNE 6, 2024

Engaging Learning Materials Learning Resources Stock the classroom with books, games, and learning materials that cater to different interests and reading levels. Start searching now in the early summer for new finds to add to your centers and class library!

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

The visual geography of paper has memory-linking effects that help students connect what they have read with where they saw it on a page or how far into a book it was. Don’t throw away your printed books: A meta-analysis on the effects of reading media on reading comprehension. Mayo Clinic Health System. Delgado, P., Wammes, J.

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4QM Teaching

MARCH 19, 2023

Contrast this approach with two widely available descriptions of historical thinking skills that we address in an appendix in our book : the College Board’s Advanced Placement (AP) historical thinking skills, and the Common Core Standards’ social studies thinking skills. If we total them up, it’s twenty-seven intellectual tasks.

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Studies Weekly

AUGUST 26, 2024

The stories and characters we meet within the pages of books teach us about our world, ourselves, and others. The Science of Reading: Phonemic and Phonological Awareness Aug 26, 2024 • By Studies Weekly Reading has the wondrous power to transport us across time and space. Onset Rime Strategies — PreK/Kindergarten. Voyager Sopris Learning.

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

Saun also wrote the book My Mother India , where he criticized British imperialism in India and narrated his experiences at his homeland. Start a 60 day FREE trial for Studies Weekly Online to gain access to K-6 social studies curriculum, primary source videos, and more.

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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

I had read Clint Smith’s book last year and was blown away by how the history is handled at many of the highlighted locations and his extreme attention to detail. I’ve since used excerpts from Smith’s book in class, but this activity really had the students use the text in a way that required them to interact with the sites, as well.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

Whitaker to talk about his book, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America , a history of the idea of Black criminality in the making of the modern United States. She’s really the first person, and she publishes a book called Southern Horrors. Du Bois’s work on Reconstruction. The second is W.

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