Full Description
How can teachers incorporate the richness of historical resources into classrooms in ways that are true to the discipline of history and are pedagogically sound? Now in its second edition, this book explores the notion of historical literacy, adopts a research-supported stance on literacy processes, and promotes the integration of content-area literacy instruction into history content teaching. Providing an original focus on the discipline-specific literacies of historical inquiry, the new edition presents a deeper examination of difficult histories and offers new strategies that can be applied to all genres of historical inquiry. Nokes surveys a broad range of texts, including those that historians and nonhistorians both use and produce in understanding history, and provides a wide variety of practical instructional strategies immediately available to teachers. Featuring new examples and practical resources, the new edition highlights the connection between historical literacies and the critical reading and communication skills that are necessary for informed civic engagement.
Equipped with study guides, graphic organizers, and scoring guides for classroom use, this text is an essential resource for preservice and practicing teachers in literacy and social studies education.
Contents
Foreword by Tina Haefner
Acknowledgements
Part I Exploring the Critical Literacies used in Historical Inquiry
Chapter 1 Why Teach Historical Literacies: Evaluating the Source and Context of this Book
Chapter 2 Building Historical Literacies: A New Purpose for History Teaching
Chapter 3 Defining Historical Literacies: What and How do Historians Read and Write?
Chapter 4 Teaching Historical Literacies: Supporting Students as Active Readers and Writers
Chapter 5 What is History? Establishing the Need for Historical Literacies in Historical Inquiry
Chapter 6 Expanding Historical Literacies: Critically Reading Many Genres of Evidence
Part II Strategies, Habits of Mind, Concepts, and Texts
Chapter 7 Using Critical Reading Strategies with Primary Sources
Chapter 8 Helping Students Make Inferences with Artifacts
Chapter 9 Teaching Historical Concepts with Visual Texts
Chapter 10 Seeing Others' Perspectives Through Historical Fiction
Chapter 11 Fostering Healthy Skepticism Using Textbooks and Secondary Sources
Chapter 12 Exploring Historical Complexity With Audio and Video Texts
Chapter 13 Building an Argument with Historical Numbers
Chapter 14 Finding Patterns and Overcoming Barriers in Teaching Through Inquiry
Index
