Building students' historical literacies : learning to read and reason with historical texts and evidence /
Nokes, Jeffery D.
Building students' historical literacies : learning to read and reason with historical texts and evidence / by Jeffery D. Nokes. - New York : Routledge, 2013 - xvii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-211) and index.
1. Building historical literacies -- 2. Defining historical literacies -- 3. Teaching historical literacies -- 4. Developing an appropriate epistemic stance for working with multiple texts -- 5. Using historians' heuristics for working with primary sources -- 6. Helping students make inferences with artifacts -- 7. Developing metaconceptual understanding with visual texts -- 8. Developing historical empathy and perspective taking through historical fiction -- 9. Fostering healthy skepticism using textbooks and secondary sources -- 10. Avoiding reductionist thinking with audio and video texts -- 11. Building an argument with quantitative historical evidence -- 12. Engaging in critical intertextual analysis with multimodal texts -- 13. Finding a pattern in building historical literacies
"How can teachers incorporate the richness of historical resources into classrooms in ways that are true to the discipline of history and are pedagogically sound? This book explores the notion of historical literacy, adopts a research-supported stance on literacy processes, and promotes the integration of content-area literacy instruction into history of content teaching. Literacy is addressed from a historian's rather than a literacy specialist's point of view."--Back cover.
9780415808989 (pbk.)
History--Study and teaching--United States
Language arts--United States
Literacy--Study and teaching--United States
United States--History -- Sources
D16.3 / N69 2013
Building students' historical literacies : learning to read and reason with historical texts and evidence / by Jeffery D. Nokes. - New York : Routledge, 2013 - xvii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-211) and index.
1. Building historical literacies -- 2. Defining historical literacies -- 3. Teaching historical literacies -- 4. Developing an appropriate epistemic stance for working with multiple texts -- 5. Using historians' heuristics for working with primary sources -- 6. Helping students make inferences with artifacts -- 7. Developing metaconceptual understanding with visual texts -- 8. Developing historical empathy and perspective taking through historical fiction -- 9. Fostering healthy skepticism using textbooks and secondary sources -- 10. Avoiding reductionist thinking with audio and video texts -- 11. Building an argument with quantitative historical evidence -- 12. Engaging in critical intertextual analysis with multimodal texts -- 13. Finding a pattern in building historical literacies
"How can teachers incorporate the richness of historical resources into classrooms in ways that are true to the discipline of history and are pedagogically sound? This book explores the notion of historical literacy, adopts a research-supported stance on literacy processes, and promotes the integration of content-area literacy instruction into history of content teaching. Literacy is addressed from a historian's rather than a literacy specialist's point of view."--Back cover.
9780415808989 (pbk.)
History--Study and teaching--United States
Language arts--United States
Literacy--Study and teaching--United States
United States--History -- Sources
D16.3 / N69 2013