Fact and Fiction: Personalizing Social Studies through the Textbook-Tradebook Connection.

Ceprano, Maria; English, Eleanor B.

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Publication Date: 1990

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Fact and Fiction: Personalizing Social Studies through the Textbook-Tradebook Connection.

Ceprano, Maria; English, Eleanor B.

Reading Horizons, v30 n2 p66-77 Jan 1990

Argues that to personalize the social studies for students, textbook units of study should be accompanied by well-chosen, related fictional readings. Argues that teacher-directed activities focusing on the fictional stories can reinforce concepts, attitudes, and skills in the social studies for students at all grade levels. (RS)

Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Fiction, Reading Material Selection, Social Studies, Supplementary Reading Materials, Teaching Methods, Textbooks

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