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Welcome to :Using Children’s Literature
in Social Studies
• Please review the book at your table
• Take 3 minutes to discuss– Social studies themes
– Relevance to state standards
– Student interest level
SOCIAL STUDIES THROUGH CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
Jolene Ethridge, NCDPI
Social Studies Consultant
http://ssnces.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/home
Using Literature inSocial Studies
• Read and share the Highlights of using Literature in Social Studies
The Benefits of UsingLiterature in Social Studies• Helps students understand the human experience across time and place.
• Extends the social studies curriculum beyond any textbook constraints.
• Assists students in understanding figurative language, style, irony, point of view, and theme.
Fredericks, Anthony D.
• Helps children understand their cultural, ethnic and religious heritage in both fiction and nonfiction.
• Provides students with new information and knowledge unobtainable in any other format.
• Help students make a personal connection and build background.
• Stimulates creative thinking and problem‐solving abilities in a variety of contexts.
Fredericks, Anthony D.
The Benefits of Using Literature in Social Studies
• Reading increases vocabulary, including content‐specific terms
• Literature is often more up‐to‐date than textbooks
• Trade books may be more appealing than textbooks
• Literature goes beyond the facts
• Literature allows readers to experience other times, other places, other people, and other cultures with empathy
• Literature can be a powerful catalyst for thoughtful analysis and critical thinking
Alverman and Phelps (1998)
Benefits of Using Literaturein Social Studies
‘Literature can become the lens throughwhich content is viewed. This lens holds the young reader’s attention while connectingcontent with the variety of humanexperiences. ’
(Smith & Johnson, 1994)
Literary Texts
• Fiction can help bring historical figures alive 2.H.1.2, 3.H.1.2
• Fiction allows students to explore the reality of life, culture and society in a given historical period. 2.C.1, 3.C.1.3
• Fiction helps to nurture student creativity and imagination, leading to higher level thinking skills.
How to Use Literature in Social Studies
• Reflect strands for Social Studies
• Understand how to identify Social Studies concepts
• Develop student‐centered activities to teach social studies
5 Strands of Social Studies
Economics & Financial
Literacy
CultureGeography & Environmental
Literacy
Civics & Government
History
Example:Economics Strand
• Students present a budget that Uncle Jed could use (5.E.2.1)
• Students identify exchanges other than money (2.E.1.4)
• Students develop a business plan to expand productivity (4.E.1.1)
• Students rewrite the end of the story so they can reflect on their own goals and dreams of owning a business. (entrepreneurship) (3.E.2.1)
• Students explain how they meet their needs and wants. (K.E.1.1, 2.E.1.1., 4.E.2.2)
Uncle Jed’s Barbershop by Margaree King Mitchell
Clarifying Objectives fromEssential Standards
5.E.2.1
• Explain the importance of developing a basic budget for spending and saving.
2.E.1.4
• Explain why people and countries around the world trade for goods and services.
4.E.1.1
• Understand the basic concepts of a market economy: price, supply, demand, scarcity, productivity and entrepreneurship.
Clarifying Objectives fromEssential Standards
3.E.2.1
• Explain why people become entrepreneurs.
• K.E.1.1
• Explain how families have needs and wants.
2.E.1.1
• Give examples of ways in which businesses in the community meet the needs and wants of consumers.
4.E.2.2
• Explain how scarcity of personal financial resources affect the choices people make based on their wants and needs.
ACTIVITY DIRECTIONS
1. Read the selected book(s) and identify a corresponding Social Studies Strand (s).
2. Draw a large “hand print” on chart paper or sheet of paper and write the identified Social Studies Strand(s) on the palm of your hand.
3. On each fingertip list a way you could use the book to further student knowledge in Social Studies Strand(s) .
4. One person from team share with group.
CULTURE, GEOGRAPHY, ECONOMICS
• Show ways in which families provide the basic needs of love, food, shelter, clothing, companionship and protection.
• Demonstrate how geographic features, climatic conditions and natural resources influence how people live.
• Categorize items of information that are similar from those that are different. Ideas about cultural diversity, transportation, families, schools, neighborhoods, etc.
A Country Far Away by Nigel Gray
HISTORY, CULTURE
• Show that every individual is unique and has dignity and worth .
• Identify talents of self and others.
• Show ways in which the talents of others have influenced the community.
Tacky the Penguin by Helen Lester
HISTORY, CULTURE, ECONOMICS
• Compare similarities and differences among families, schools and neighborhoods
• Individuals have unlimited wants but limited resources
• Define and identify wants and needs
• Identify resources that are used to make the things people
need or want
• Identify cultural traits and values that are inherited and acquired; e.g., family, religious and cultural traditions, physical characteristics, etc.
The Rag Coat by Lauren Mills
CIVICS AND GOVERNMENT
• Understand the meaning of citizenship
• Understand that citizens have rights and responsibilities
• Explain the relationship between rights and responsibilities
• Recognize that rules, laws and constitutional mandates protect the rights and responsibilities of citizens
• Understand the consequences of breaking rules, laws and constitutional mandates is punishment.
Yertle the Turtle by Dr. Seuss
Horton Hatches the Egg by Dr. Suess
In Summary
• Interdisciplinary
• Strands in Social Studies
• Teach SS with Literature as the vehicle
Social Studies Consultants:
Section ChiefK-12 Social Studies& Middle GradesFay [email protected]
ElementaryJolene [email protected]
High SchoolMichelle [email protected]
RESOURCES
• http://blog.richmond.edu/openwidelookinside/archives/22
• http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/umits/byrnes‐literature/alleman.html
• Social Studies Through Children’s Literature by Anthony D. Fredericks