Social+Studies-Informational+Text+Resources

"Part of the motivation behind the interdisciplinary approach to literacy promulgated by the Standards is extensive research establishing the need for college and career ready students to be proficient in reading complex informational text independently in a variety of content areas. Most of the required reading in college and workforce training programs is informational in structure and challenging in content; postsecondary education programs typically provide students with both a higher volume of such reading than is generally required in K–12 schools and comparatively little scaffolding..."

From the introduction of "The Common Core Standards"

=Informational Texts for Social Studies and English Language Arts=

The New York Times Learning Network
===The New York Times has professional educators who create weekly lesson plans incorporating news articles from the paper. [|This page]provides teaching and learning strategies you can use before, during, and after instruction.===

Reading Like a Historian
===A curriculum that engages students in historical inquiry. The Standford History Education Group produced over 75 Lesson Plans based on primary documents and activities to engage your students in the study of United States History. Asks students to form an opinion, and debate primary source materials: meaningful historical inquiry.===

The Library of Congress section on American Memory
===An indispensable archive from the Library of Congress section on American Memory. Download historical pamphlets from the African American pamphlet collection, or three centuries of broadsides, including invitations to pioneers to get their land grants. Look at photographs from the Depression, or from the American West. Subheadings lead you to the archives of collections. You can print from the online image.===

The United States Memorial Holocaust Museum
===One of the greatest and most accessible resources for any study of the Holocaust. Print photographs, letters, diary entries. Access historical summaries. Don’t miss the Education department, which provides resources for teachers.===

EDSITEment
===From the National Endowment from the Humanities. This website offers free resources and over 393 history lessons for teachers. These lessons stress primary source documents, critical thinking, and other common core skills. The website is extremely easy to navigate and it has a plethora of valuable and easy to implement lessons.===