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Promoting Literacy through the Integration of Reading and History
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Promoting Literacy through the Integration of Reading and History
| Title: | Promoting Literacy through the Integration of Reading and History |
| Author: | Matthews, Allison |
| Abstract: | This paper provides the rationale underlying the integrated reading-history unit I have created in fulfillment of my Capstone requirements. I begin by calling for the incorporation of any of the content areas into the literacy program, drawing primarily from schema theory. Then, I explain why history is a particularly apt candidate for this sort of cross-disciplinary study. Next, I highlight the key features of the Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI) model (Guthrie, Wigfield, and Perencevich, 2004), the inspiration for my unit plan, and describe how I adapted it to fit my purposes. Finally, I describe three instructional principles that guided the design of my unit: clear purpose, constructive assessment, and authentic inquiry. Contains two major components: an essay providing a research-based rationale for the integration of reading and history, and a unit plan that demonstrates how that integration might occur. |
| Description: | Teaching and Learning Department capstone project |
| Subject: |
literacy instruction
cross-curricular integration schema theory |
| LCSH Subject: |
History -- Study and teaching (Elementary)
Reading (Elementary) -- Study and teaching |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1803/4208 |
| Date: | 2010-06-14 |
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| Files | Size | Format | View | Description |
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| Capstone Paper.docx | 96.87Kb | Microsoft Word |
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Rationale for unit |
| Unit Plan.docx | 225.7Kb | Microsoft Word |
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Unit plan |
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