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Reading Nonfiction. How to read your Social Studies textbook Mrs. Roopchan , 2012. Reading Social Studies. What pops into your head when somebody mentions social studies?. Social Studies. Social studies can be pretty exciting, IF YOU READ IT THE RIGHT WAY!!!!
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Reading Nonfiction How to read your Social Studies textbook Mrs. Roopchan, 2012
Reading Social Studies What pops into your head when somebody mentions social studies?
Social Studies • Social studies can be pretty exciting, IF YOU READ IT THE RIGHT WAY!!!! • Helps you pictures the world in the past. • Many resources—words, maps, diagrams, timelines, drawings, and photographs. • Your job is to pull together those pieces into and overall pictures of the time period.
Social Studies Before Reading • Set a Purpose • What is your reason or purpose for reading? • Preview • Look for key information that you are about to read. • Plan • What did you learn from your preview? • What graphic organizer will help you to meet your reading purpose?
Social Studies During Reading • Read with a Purpose • Look for information related to your reading purpose. • Write down important details on STICKY NOTES or on your GRAPHIC ORGANIZER. • Connect • Active readers make connections with what they read. • T-T (Text to Text) • T-S (Text to Self) • T-W (Text to World)
Graphic Organizers • Timeline • Helps you to remember the important dates and events in the lesson. • Webs • Helps you keep related details and ideas together. • 5 W’s and H Organizer • Helps you to make sure that you ask questions about all the key facts. • K-W-L Chart • Helps you connect the information to questions you have about the subject.
How Are Textbooks Organized • Time Order • The order in which things happen. • Timeline Graphic Organizer • Topic Order • Facts and Ideas by topic • Webs Graphic Organizer • 5 W’s and H Graphic Organizer
Social Studies After Reading • Pause and Reflect • Think again about why you are reading. • What were you trying to find out? • Did anything confuse you? • Reread • Good readers reread all the time. • Use a different reading strategy. Cause and Effect • Cause is the original event. • Effect is the result of the event. • This organizer helps to tell what happened and why it happened. • Remember • Think about how what you’re reading about connects with what you know already and with your own life.