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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462765203321

Autore

Nokes Jeffery D.

Titolo

Building students' historical literacies : learning to read and reason with historical texts and evidence / / Jeffery D. Nokes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-283-91927-3

0-203-13732-9

1-136-48908-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (230 p.)

Disciplina

907.1/073

Soggetti

History - Study and teaching - United States

Language arts - United States

Literacy - Study and teaching - United States

Electronic books.

United States History Sources

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Historical literacies -- pt. 2. Fluency with strategies and evidence -- pt. 3. Putting it all together.

Sommario/riassunto

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? 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. It is unique in its focus on the discipline-specific literacies of historical inquiry. Addressing literacy from a historian's rather than a a literacy specialist's point of view, this book surveys a broad range of texts including