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Using Multimedia to Support Reading in Social Studies

Watch this short video to learn how you can use multimedia to help support your instruction in social studies and history.

Using Think-Pair-Share in the Classroom

Using think-pair-share in the classroom creates a collaborative learning environment where students work together to solve a problem or answer a question about an assigned reading.

Cooperative Learning: The Jigsaw Method

Jigsaw is a cooperative learning strategy that enables each student of a “home” group to specialize in one aspect of a topic and become the “expert.”

Using Concept Sort in the Classroom.

A concept sort is a vocabulary and comprehension strategy used to familiarize students with the vocabulary of a new topic or book.

Classroom Strategy: List-Group-Label

List-group-label is a vocabulary and comprehension strategy that helps develop categorization skills, build background knowledge, activate critical thinking, and grow vocabulary. Watch list-group-label in action.

Poetry and standards

Dr. Sylvia Vardell describes the art of aligning poetry to standards.

Endorphins for the brain

Aronson sees nonfiction as pleasure reading, because it “excites your brain cells, because you’re knowing more, seeing things differently, [and] coming up with a completely new argument.”