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Adams, Kelli – Insights into Open Education, 1992
Teachers have allowed the social studies and science areas of instruction to become isolated from vibrant language arts skills, resulting in deficiencies in reading and writing skills within the different content areas. An 8- to 10-week biography unit was developed for a fourth-grade social studies course in an attempt to give students a stronger…
Descriptors: Biographies, Classroom Techniques, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing