Describes a method of teaching history in which students act as historians, researching documents and primary sources; provides accounts of how this curriculum worked in actual classrooms; and includes sample handouts, and excerpts from student writings.

Aligned with national standards, these strategies and sample lessons turn learners into history detectives as they solve historical mysteries, prepare arguments for famous cases, and more.

This collection of standards-based lessons will guide middle and high school teachers while teaching the nation's history in a user-friendly, ready-made fashion. During a time of standards-based instruction, Beyond the Textbook: Using Trade Books and Databases to Teach Our Nation's History, Grades 7–12 will fill the gap in today's middle and high school classrooms to simultaneously engage students in effective literacy skill exercises and teach our nation's history. Authored by three experienced former public school teachers, these ready-made lesson plans for classroom teachers and school librarians make planning easy for implementation in a social studies, history, or English classroom. The book covers topics from Native Americans to the Louisiana Purchase, offering evidence-based reading strategies throughout that can hold adolescents' attention and develop their vocabulary and comprehension. Each chapter will include bibliographic information; suggested grade level; Information Literacy and National Social Studies Standards; before, during, and after reading strategies; database integration for classroom use; and suggested readalikes. Users will find the standards and evidenced-based research perfectly applicable in today's classrooms.

Aligned with national standards, these strategies and sample lessons turn learners into history detectives as they solve historical mysteries, prepare arguments for famous cases, and more.

Classroom-tested, differentiated lessons that teach students how to comprehend complex nonfiction texts in the content areas!

Reading Beyond Words is a down-to-earth reading textbook structured so that students can understand and use it easily, and to offer complete coverage of study-reading skills using materials from actual textbooks students will encounter. As the title suggests, Reading Beyond Words means not only comprehending what the words are saying, but to interpret, question, compare, and evaluate what a writer says.