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Reading Like a Historian teaches students how to investigate historical questions by employing reading strategies such as sourcing, contextualizing, corroborating, and close reading. Instead of memorizing historical facts, students evaluate the trustworthiness of multiple perspectives on historical issues and learn to make historical claims backed by documentary evidence.
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Kelly Gallagher recognizes that part of the reason his students struggle with reading is because they lack prior knowledge and background. They can decode the words, but the words remain meaningless without a foundation of knowledge. To help build his students’ prior knowledge, he assigns them an Article of the Week every Monday morning.
He keep a running list of articles he has used in the past on his website to share with teachers. Check it out by clicking here! Searching online (article of the week) will link you to a plethora of resources!! A CER (Claim, Evidence, Reasoning) is a format for writing about science. It allows students to think about the data in an organized, thorough manner. Claim: a conclusion about a problem Evidence: scientific data that is appropriate and sufficient to support the claim Reasoning: a justification that shows why the data counts as evidence to support the claim and includes appropriate scientific principles
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