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ReadWorks | Award-Winning, EdTech Nonprofit Organization

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ReadWorks is an edtech nonprofit organization that is committed to helping to solve America’s reading comprehension crisis.

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We have monthly ELA/SS projects that integrate reading and writing skills with SS standards.

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There are plenty of picture books, chapter books, and novels that align with your SS standards. Start a routine where you incorportate them into daily assignments.

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Interested in WW?  Go to my padlet @ https://padlet.com/christy_mcmanus/zh6q7g9g6ttr

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Want to align your ELA and SS standards. Use this template to help.

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After students complete a close read, they are given a sticky note to answer a text-based question.  Once they've completed it, they are grouped.  The group must share their answers, discuss what they want to include in the group answer, and write a group answer.  Text-based question often reflects the writing skill we are covering that week

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Close Reading Social Studies Nonfiction and Literary Texts

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Close Reading Social Studies Nonfiction and Literary Texts

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We close read weekly. A close read is always paired with a collaborative or independent writing task.

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Scholastic has a variety of SS based magazines with literacy-based activities

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Read Skills integrated into Social Studies based articles.
https://www.readworks.org/

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Reading skills integrated into social studies based articles.
https://newsela.com/

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Creating a pacing guide helps you match ELA and SS standards. You can create assignments to merge the two standards.

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Many of our essays students write about correlate with SS standards.

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Go to our google drive to access descriptions, rubrics, and ppts for ELA/SS monthly projects.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B8HBhAgp0CrhcE1EeHEzNlc3UVE

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In our September project, students must write a summary of the contributions of an individual to the Civil War.

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Introduce students to A.C.E. with this ppt.

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Today's standards require students to write more. It's important to provide students with a model of how to best do this.

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Expert Kelly Gallagher recommends using AoWs as a way to incorporate literacy into the content areas.  http://www.kellygallagher.org/article-of-the-week