Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ419221
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1990
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-1341
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Read Your Way across the U.S.A.
Sisson, Jeanie
Journal of Geography, v89 n4 p175-77 Jul-Aug 1990
Combines independent reading and teacher-directed lessons to teach geographic concepts through picture books and children's literature in a third grade class. Outlines learning activities that emphasize the geographical perspectives of five picture books. Describes the class project in which students develop a puzzlelike map of the United States from the literature they have read. (DB)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Geographic Concepts, Geography Instruction, Grade 3, Instructional Materials, Integrated Activities, Learning Activities, Picture Books, Reading Instruction, Reading Materials, Social Studies, Teaching Experience, Teaching Methods, Units of Study, Writing Exercises
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher
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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
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