Reading History A Practical Guide to Improving Literacy

Having trouble interesting your students in history or the historytextbook? Concerned about the ability of your students to actually read thetextbook? Learn ways to tie reading strategies to the learning of history andsources that will help history come alive for your students.Nationally known literacy advocate Janet Allen discusses strategies forteaching nonfiction reading using Joy Hakim's award winning A History of USseries as the center of a blossoming campaign among educators to integrateliteracy and history. Classroom tested at a variety of grade levels, realstudent samples are interspersed throughout the book providing clearerunderstanding of the strategies in action.

Janet Allen is one of the most prominent and outspoken literacy advocates in the country. A former elementary school teacher and university instructor, hundreds of teachers attend her seminars each year. Her books Words, Words, Words: Teaching Vocabulary in Grades 4-12 and Yellow Brick Roads: Shared and Guided Paths to Independent Reading have been praised by elementary and secondary school teachers, education professors, adult literacy advocates, and ESL instructors. Dr. Allen lives in Orlando, Florida.
Christine Landaker has been teaching for the last ten years; her first nine were in urban and suburban schools in Orlando, Florida. Her first love is history and the social studies, followed closely by her love of reading and English. She has seemlessly combined the two in her classroom. Christine is currently an 8th grade English teacher at Pierce Middle School in Milton, Massachusetts.