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 Reading and Social Studies!

As teachers of reading in the Social Studies we often cite our most critical need as simply attempting to get our students to meaningfully interface with our text.  If we can support students in this pursuit, then we can "win" as content area instructors.  We can do much more meaningful "frontload" before we begin with a piece of text, and have a lot of fun with some summarization techniques after the reading.  However, the process we use to support readers during the
reading needs to be both meaningful and consistent. 

The "Hold Your Thinking" document is a "go-to" for during reading instruction and can be adapted to your reading selection by just changing the labels in the four squares.  Students should be able to consistently have something to go to in order to organize their thoughts and the important
aspects of the reading. 

See the attached reading tools with this philosophy in mind!

Thanks to former social studies teacher, Wendy Hodgson, currently a Collier County  Reading Specialist. 

For a very comprehensive list of graphic organizers and other helps, click on Literacy Tips at

http://www.collier.k12.fl.us/candi/langarts/index.html... 

The “Hold Your Thinking” documents are also located below!

Hold Your Thinking – Historical Reading

Title of Text: _____________________________________

Chapter: _____________________

Key People or Events	One Memorable Part
Two Sentence Summary (Retell what you read)	Connections You Made – at least one Text to Self: Text to Text: Text to World:

Historical Reading Guide Sheet

Title of Micro-Chapter: _____________________________________

Page ______ to page ______ = ________ pages

Summary – Retell what you read	Key People or Events In The Reading
Two Major Concepts/Ideas In The Reading	Quotables / Golden Lines