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Integrating Content and Literacy in Social Studies: Assessing Instructional Materials and Student Work from a Common Core-Aligned Intervention
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Reisman, Abby – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2017
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) call on science and social studies teachers to engage in literacy instruction that prepares students for the academic rigors of college. The Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) designed a framework to address the challenge of literacy-content integration. At the heart of the intervention are fill-in-the-blank…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Course Content, Common Core State Standards, Science Instruction
Assessing Adolescents' Communicative Self-Efficacy to Discuss Controversial Issues: Findings from a Randomized Study of the Word Generation Program
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Lin, Alex R.; Lawrence, Joshua F.; Snow, Catherine E.; Taylor, Karen S. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2016
Communicative self-efficacy serves as an important link between discussing controversial issues and civic engagement because confidence in one's discourse skills is important to managing conflicting perspectives and developing solutions to community-based problems. Freely available to schools, "Word Generation" is a cross-content…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Communication Skills, Content Area Reading, Literacy Education