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Direct linkFordham, Nancy W.; Wellman, Debra; Sandmann, Alexa – Social Studies, 2002
In this article, the authors offer a selection of strategies that teachers can regularly use to help students tame the difficulties they often encounter with social studies texts for the middle grades. They have taken a thematic approach to the strategies, basing all of them on the topic of Civil War. Furthermore, because the authors are convinced…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Printed Materials, War, Thematic Approach
