1. Yes! You Can Teach Social Studies through Literacy
June 7, Darby Media Center 8:00 – 11:00
Deborah Chapman & Jodee Presson, presenters

2. CCSS=Rigor!!
Students require wide-ranging, rigorous academic preparation and approaches to learning.
Standards define what all students are expected to know and be able to do, not how teachers should teach.
Standards leave room for teachers to determine how those goals should be reached and what additional topics should be addressed

3. Key Features of Common Core
Reading: Text complexity and the growth of comprehension
Writing: Text types, responding to reading, and research
Speaking and Listening: Flexible communication and collaboration
Language: Conventions, effective use, and vocabulary

4. Creating Standards-Based Units
Planning Standards-Based Units
takes time and effort
BUT
can result in engaging, grade-level instruction
improved student achievement
applies knowledge and skills to real-world projects
THEREFORE
Students see the connections to day-to-day living through the application of
information.

5. Choose topic Addresses a major issue of your discipline
Fits the standards for which you are responsible
Makes sense as a subject to teach during the weeks you are planning to schedule the task.

6. Choose & Chunk Standards
Several standards can be addressed by a single rich task.
The same ten CCR anchor standards for Reading apply texts in history/social studies, science, and technical subjects.
RESULT: Students can develop mutually reinforcing skills and exhibit mastery of standards for reading and writing across a range of texts and classrooms.

7. TOPIC: Constitution Civics Literacy CCSS
USC.5.C Discuss the meaning of constitution and constitutional government.
USC.5.C Explain the importance of historical documents and events that influenced the structure and development of the United States Constitution: Constitutional Convention –1787
USC.6.C Analyze the consequences of constitutional amendments on citizenship (e.g., voting rights, due process of law, societal changes).
USC.7.C Analyze rights protected by the Bill of Rights that are not specifically stated in the United States Constitution (e.g., right of privacy).
Literacy CCSS
CC.6-8.WHST.1.a Text Types and Purposes: Introduce claim(s) about a topic or issue, acknowledge and distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.
CC.6-8.R.H.4 Craft and Structure: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary specific to domains related to history/social studies.
CC.6-8.R.H.2 Key Ideas and Details: Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.
CC.6-8.R.H.6 Craft and Structure: Identify aspects of a text that reveal an author’s point of view or purpose (e.g., loaded language, inclusion or avoidance of particular facts).

8. Essential Questions Are framed to provoke and sustain student interest
Have no obvious right answer
Engage students in real-life applied problem-solving
Recur through-out one’s learning

9. Essential Questions Civics
How does the development of the constitution reflect our changing times?

10. Task Development
Requires teachers to create an assignment that asks students to
Think, in ways that prepare students for success in college and workplace
Read, analyze, and comprehend texts as specified by Common Core
Write products as specified by Common core
Apply Common Core Literacy Standards to content

11. Resources Textbook Primary Resources Secondary Resources
Digital Resources
Don’t forget….
Art, Photographs, Maps, Graphs, Music & More

12. Literacy Strategies
Help your readers to develop traits of proficient readers in your content area
Focus on 1-2 strategies for student application before moving on