Kids need engaging texts and resources they can sink their teeth into, and they need and deserve to hear their stories told in history texts. Industrial Age and Immigration (1880-1940) highlights multiple perspectives and diverse voices of this historical time period. The last section of this resource, from the 1960s on, includes articles illustrating present-day perspectives, events, and issues surrounding immigration and innovation.
Anne Goudvis and Steph Harvey include 12 lessons for historical literacy that merge effective, foundational literacy practices with approaches to reading historical articles and primary sources. This volume includes:
- over 75 nonfiction articles across a range of reading levels
- a collection of rich historical images and primary sources that provide an authentic view of and unique insights into each topic
- a full color Digital Companion Resource that includes all of the reproducible texts, primary source documents, and historical images is available online for projecting, group analysis, or to use with remote learning.
In order to engage with history, kids must connect to and see themselves in it. Help students to understand the power and potential of their own thinking and learning so that they can learn to think critically and connect history to their own lives.
About the Author: Anne Goudvis has taught students in grades K-6 over the years, beginning her teaching career in urban schools on the south side of Chicago. She spent many years as a staff developer in the Denver area, working in culturally and linguistically diverse schools. Currently, Anne works with schools and districts around the country to implement progressive literacy practices and comprehension across the curriculum. She is the coauthor with Stephanie Harvey of Strategies That Work and The Comprehension Toolkit series, along with resources including Scaffolding the Comprehension Toolkits for English Language Learners. A history buff, she and Stephanie also coauthored the Short Nonfiction for Teaching American History series, which includes strategies for teaching historical literacy and student articles about often overlooked voices and people in history. With Inquiry Illuminated, Anne, Steph, and Brad Burhow show how curiosity and student agency thrive as kids engage in Researcher's Workshop across the curriculum.
Stephanie Harvey has spent her career teaching and learning about reading and writing. After fifteen years of public school teaching, both in regular education and special education classrooms, Stephanie worked for twelve years as a staff developer for the Denver based Public Education and Business Coalition (PEBC), a partnership of leaders from education and business, who support innovation in public schools. Insatiably curious about student thinking, she is a teacher first and foremost and currently serves as a private literacy consultant to schools and school districts. In that role, she conducts keynote speeches, presentations, workshops, demonstration lessons, coaching sessions and ongoing consultation to teachers, reading specialists, literacy coaches, principals and district administrators. With a focus on K-12 literacy, her specialties include comprehension instruction, inquiry-based learning, content area reading and writing, nonfiction literacy, and the role of passion, wonder and engagement in teaching and learning. Stephanie has written many articles, books and resources; her Heinemann publications include the title Comprehension and Collaboration which she co-authored with Smokey Daniels, and The Comprehension Toolkit series which is an in-depth Curricular Resource for comprehension instruction co-authored with Anne Goudvis. Click here to read recent Heinemann Blogs from Steph. Connect with Steph at @StephHarvey49 >> Listen to an interview with Stephanie Harvey on Education Talk Radio - 2/29/2012 (30:35)
