Building students' historical literacies : learning to read and reason with historical texts and evidence / Jeffery D. Nokes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nokes, Jeffery D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History--Study and teaching--United States.

History.

History--Study and teaching.

Literacy--Study and teaching.

Literacy.

United States.

United States--History--Sources.

Language arts--United States.

Language arts.

Literacy--Study and teaching--United States.

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

xvii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2013.

Summary:

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 content teaching. It is unique in its focus on the discipline-specific literacies of historical inquiry. Literacy is addressed from a historian's rather than a literacy specialist's point of view. A broad range of texts is surveyed, including those that historians and non-historians both use and produce in understanding history. The book features a wide variety of practical instructional strategies immediately available to teachers. History teachers who read this book will receive the practical tools they need in order to help their students reach the national standards for history teaching. With the recent inclusion of a historical literacy component of the English Language Arts Common Core Standards Initiative, this book is also highly relevant to English, language arts, and reading teachers, who are expected, under the new guidelines, to engage their students in historical reading and writing. Visit historicalliteracies.byu.edu for additional information and resources on teaching historical literacies. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Historical Literacies 1

1 Building Historical Literacies 3

2 Defining Historical Literacies 15

3 Teaching Historical Literacies 30

4 Developing an Appropriate Epistemic Stance for Working with Multiple Texts 49

Part II Fluency with Strategies and Evidence 63

5 Using Historians' Heuristics for Working with Primary Sources 65

6 Helping Students Make Inferences with Artifacts 82

7 Developing Metaconceptual Understanding with Visual Texts 98

8 Developing Historical Empathy and Perspective Taking through Historical Fiction 118

9 Fostering Healthy Skepticism Using Textbooks and Secondary Sources 133

10 Avoiding Reductionist Thinking with Audio and Video Texts 145

11 Building an Argument with Quantitative Historical Evidence 161

Part III Putting It All Together 177

12 Engaging in Critical Intertextual Analysis with Multimodal Texts 179

13 Finding a Pattern in Building Historical Literacies 194.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415808972

0415808979

9780415808989

0415808987

9780203137321

0203137329

OCLC:

772112285