literature and social studies

Literature and

Social Studies

The Benefits of Using Literature in Social Studies

• Helps students understand the human experience across time and place.

• Extends the social studies curriculum beyond any textbook constraints.

• Assists students in understanding figurative language, style, irony, point of view, and theme.

• Helps children understand their cultural, ethnic and religious heritage in both fiction and nonfiction.

• Provides students with new information and knowledge unobtainable in any other format.

• Help students make a personal connection and build background.

• Stimulates creative thinking and problem solving abilities in a variety of contexts.

Sites to Help

• http://www.carolhurst.com/index.html

• http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/

• http://www.udel.edu/dssep/literature.html

• http://edsitement.neh.gov/subject/history-social-studies

Additional Materials• Exploring Social Studies Through Children’s Literature

http://www.naeyc.org/files/yc/file/200509/SocialStudiesBooksBTJ905.pdf

• A Bibliography of Books with Children’s Social Studies Themes http://www.michigan.gov/documents/Social_Studies_Trade_Books_42259_7.pdf

• Connecting Social Studies and Children’s Literature http://blog.richmond.edu/openwidelookinside/archives/22

• Finance in the Classroom http://financeintheclassroom.org/passport/first/social_studies.shtml

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Lesson Planshttp://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/LPview.cgi?core=4