Chapter 5 - Post 2

Read the section on pp 138-139 about Task, Text, and Talk.  How would your social studies curriculum look if you implemented this?  What needs to "give" in the daily schedule to accommodate it?  Do you believe that some of the literacy block could be effectively used for specific content in social studies and science?

Chapter 5 - Post 1

Do you believe that social studies is best taught with reading and writing at the core? Are the texts you have worthy of this idea:  "...students must be taught to 'argue with the text'...Social studies is the place to learn [this], to 'think and reason in sophistcated ways.'"

Chapter 4 - simple redundant literacy

On p 127, there are 5 bullets for every assignment that starts with reading.  Do you agree or disagree with the bullets, and with the idea that all lessons should look like these?  Why or why not?