Journal Club posting

Integrating Literacy with Social Studies Education: A Review of Popular Texts for Social Studies Teacher Educators

Written by Andrea M. Hawkman and Antonio Castro

This Journal that I found was an excellent resource for finding and giving a review of widely used and great resources for the integration of literacy in Social Studies. The authors gave brief overviews of the resources and gave their importance and uses for the sources. They laid them out in the way that they related, with a grouping like strategy. For example, putting the two sources that related to the integration of literacy in social studies improving people citizenship and the student’s ability to participate in our society. An interesting thing that I found was one of the articles, “Teaching Like a Historian”, me and Haley have read excerpts of in our SS methods class. Another connection was the mention of the C3 framework, something we are working on currently in our class for our final project. I thought this was an extremely useful article for us, as upcoming SS teachers, in finding useful texts that improve and change our teaching strategies. I see this best used as picking and choosing portions from these sources that best works for us as we see ourselves as teachers, and how we wish to teach and implement these other educators frameworks.
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