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Reading Quest: Making Sense of Social Studies WebsiteReading Quest: Making Sense of Social Studies Website
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9th - 10th
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English Language Arts
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Reading Quest: Making Sense of Social Studies

Curated by ACT

Teaching students to read well in areas other than language arts requires teaching and reinforcing the kinds of reading strategies taught here. There are 27 strategies, ranging from brainstorming to word mapping. The site includes PDF documents of graphic organizers and overheads, as well as concise instructions for teaching each strategy. Click on Strategies.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

brainstorming, reading strategies, story maps, summarizing

Additional Tags

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Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

Common Core

RI.4.10 RH.6-8.10 RH.9-10.3 RH.9-10.10 RH.11-12.10 RI.6.3 RI.7.2 RI.8.2 RH.11-12.4 RI.11-12.2 RI.5.2 RH.9-10.4 RI.6.9 W.4.2.c W.7.2.a W.4.1.a W.5.1.a RI.6.2 W.6.2.a RL.11-12.2 RH.9-10.5

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