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Effectively Integrating Literature and Social Studies

A Quarterly for Creative Teaching in Grades K- Volume 26 Number 1 September/October 2013

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93RD NCSS Annual Conference St. Louis, MO November 2224, 2013

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100+ sessions addressing Common Core ELA Standards for History/Social Studies Introduction of the new C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards, featuring practical sessions on how to use it Keynote speakers Rep. John Lewis, Taylor Branch, and Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick Visits to popular St. Louis sites, including Busch Stadium, a premier St. Louis blues club, the Old Courthouse, Forest Park, Cahokia Mounds and more! Film screenings of The Graduates/Los Graduados, Jerusalem, and the making of Steven Spielbergs Lincoln
Oliver Stone, legendary lm director and co-writer and director of the book and documentary series The Untold History of the United States Lara Setrakian, former TV correspondent in the Middle East and founder of the website Syria Deeply Peter Kuznick, professor of history and co-writer of The Untold History of the United States Taylor Branch, author of the award-winning, three-volume biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. Joy Hakim, author of the acclaimed 10-volume A History of US John Lewis, U.S. House of Representatives (GA-5) and civil rights veteran.

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EDITORS NOTES

Our conversation with you about Eectively Integrating Literature and Social Studies
We would recommend using literature in the service of social studies,1 even if the time allotted to social studies were not shrinking at the elementary level.2 But, because language arts and math have been getting the lions share of instructional time since the advent of No Child Left Behind, we believe that the integration of literature and social studies is an option worthy of consideration. There are dangers in using literature for the dual purposes of teaching social studies and language arts; integration often results in language arts being the focal point of lessons, while less valuable, even trivial, aspects of social studies get addressed, often in a scattershot way.3 On the other hand, literature can offer young readers visual images that make social studies concepts more concrete. Literature-based accounts presented from multiple perspectives allow students to extend their understanding of the personalities and events that have shaped our world. Integrating literature into lessons can be a positive way to teach social studies, but only if it is done with social studies concepts at the center of curriculum and instruction. The authors in this issue have done just that. An article at the early childhood level by Victoria B. Fantozzi, Elizabeth Cottino, and Cindy Gennarelli, Mapping Their Place: Preschoolers Explore Space, Place, and Literacy, highlights a mapmaking activity that fosters emergent literacy in our youngest students. Monica Zenyuhs article, Crisis = Opportunity: Civic Literacy in the Wake of a Hurricane, describes how using the newspaper as a text not only increased students awareness of the world around them, but propelled them into a humanitarian cause. An article and Pullout by Ellen Ballock and Ashley Lucas, Going Beyond Maps and Globes: Exploring Childrens Literature Using the Five Geographic Themes, illustrates that geography can be used to add depth to childrens experiences in reading and writing and that every book can be a geography book.

Andrea S. Libresco

Jeannette Balantic

Theres nothing better than discovering a wonderful book.

In Immigration, Any Small Goodness, and Integrated Social Studies, Michelle Bauml, Sherry L. Field, and Mary Ledbetter show how the rich, descriptive language of a novel on immigration can help students empathize with people in circumstances that may be different from their own, and give them the tools to participate capably in our multicultural democracy. In Social Studies is a Story: Developing Critical Analysis Skills Through Childrens Literature, Ann T. Ackerman, Patricia H. Howson, and Betty C. Mulrey share a checklist to assist teachers in assessing, selecting, and critically analyzing appropriate texts. The checklist can remind teachers and students, alike, to examine texts through a social studies lens, attending to setting, accuracy, and perspective. Andrea S. Librescos book review, A Powerful Biography of a Powerful Partnership, of Penny Colmans Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: A Friendship that Changed the World reminds us that highly procient children in upper grades deserve to have engaging, thoughtful, and challenging works to read. These articles provide examples of classrooms where literature is integrated with social studies in ways that do not treat social studies as the poorer cousin of English/Language Arts. Sohow do YOU try to integrate literature and social studies? To what extent do you believe that any piece of literature can be used in the service of social studies? What books do you already use that have social studies concepts embedded in them? How do you select texts that will do double dutyas both social studies and literature? How important is it to select books that will foster empathy in your students? To what extent do you use literature to jump-start a social studies unit?
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SOCIAL STUDIES AND THE YOUNG LEARNER (ISSN 1056-0300) is published by National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) four times a year: Sept/ Oct, Nov/Dec, Jan/Feb, and May/June. Logotype is an NCSS trademark. Contents 2013. ONLINE: Visit us at www.socialstudies.org/publications/ssyl and ncss. metapress.com. READERS: The editors welcome suggestions, letters to the editor, and manuscripts to our peer-reviewed journal. Guidelines and services at www.socialstudies.org/ publications/ssyl; ssyl@ncss.org; 301-850-2498. Contributors express their own views, reecting divergent opinions. Send manuscripts to ssyl@ncss.org. DELIVERY AND CHANGE OF ADDRESS: View and update your record, www.socialstudies.org/membership; send new address to membership@ncss. org; or call 800-298-7840 ext. 111. Callers outside the U.S. and Canada use 301588-1800 ext. 111. PERMISSION to reproduce articles for academic use, contact Copyright Clearance Center, Academic Permissions Service, 222 Rosewood Dr., Danvers, MA 01923; 978-750-8400 (phone), 978-750-4470 (fax).

co-editors Andrea S. Libresco

Hofstra University (Hempstead, NY)

Jeannette Balantic
Garden City Public Schools (Garden City, NY)

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contents
September/October 2013
Volume 26 Number 1

National Council for the Social Studies

Founded 1921 NCSS OfficErs Stephen Armstrong, President William H. Hall High School and King Phillip Middle School, West Hartford, CT Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT Michelle Herczog, President-Elect Los Angeles County Ofce of Education, Downey, CA Kim ONeil, Vice President Liverpool Elementary School, Liverpool, NY BOarD Of DirEctOrs Karen Burgard Franklin College, Franklin, IN (2015) Terry Cherry Naaman Forest High School, Garland, TX (2014) Andrew Demko Rainier Jr/Sr. High School, Rainier, OR (2015) Diane Hart Menlo Park, CA (2014) Kimberly Heckart Prairie Ridge Elementary, Cedar Rapids, IA (2016) Elizabeth Hinde Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ (2016) Mary McCullagh Christopher Columbus High School, Miami, FL (2015) India Meissel Lakeland High School, Suffolk, VA (2015) John Moore, Past President Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY (2014) Elyse Poller Manseld Middle School, Manseld, CT (2014) Anton Schulzki William J. Palmer High School, Colorado Spring, CO (2016) Loraine Stewart Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA (2014) Charles Vaughan Richland Northeast High School, Columbia, SC (2016) EX OFFICIO William R. Daniel Chair, House of Delegates Steering Committee (2013) Jefferson County Public Schools, Louisville, KY Executive Director Susan Grifn Department Directors Timothy Daly Administration Brenda Luper Finance David Bailor Meetings and Exhibitions Ana Chiquillo Post External Relations and Council Communication Cassandra Roberts Membership Processing Michael Simpson Publications
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Mapping Their Place: Preschoolers Explore Space, Place, and Literacy

Victoria B. Fantozzi, Elizabeth Cottino, and Cindy Gennarelli 11

Crisis = Opportunity: Civic Literacy in the Wake of a Hurricane

Monica Zenyuh 15

Going Beyond Maps and Globes: Exploring Childrens Literature Using the Five Geographic Themes
Ellen Ballock and Ashley Lucas PULLOUT

Handouts for Going Beyond Maps and Globes

Ellen Ballock and Ashley Lucas 17

Immigration, Any Small Goodness, and Integrated Social Studies

Michelle Bauml, Sherry L. Field, and Mary Ledbetter 22

Getting the Story Right: Developing Critical Analysis Skills Through Childrens Literature
Ann T. Ackerman, Patricia H. Howson, and Betty C. Mulrey 29

A Powerful Biography of a Powerful Partnership: Stanton and Anthony

Andrea S. Libresco

ON THE COVER: Children from three to ve years old can assist in making a threedimensional map of a place that they know. See the article "Mapping their Place" on pages 510. Courtesy of the WP Child Development Center

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ToP StorY from page 1 What books do you use in the service of geography? economics? civic action? Are there any pieces of literature that you have shared with your students that you believe had a powerful effect on their thinking on a social studies issue? How do you handle a book that is a beautiful piece of literature but has historical inaccuracies? In addition to literature, what other sources do you use (songs, artwork, plays, storytelling, puppetry, etc.) in the service of social studies? Which of these strategies that serve both literature and social studies do you employ? What other strategies do you employ? Create a sociogram of the characters in the book. Make a timeline of the events in the story. Sketch a map of the storys setting. Generate a list of questions sparked by events or characters choices in the book. Re-write parts of the book from different characters points of view. Craft different endings for the book to explore what is either possible or desirable.

Discuss the authors motive for writing the book what the author says about how we should behave, relate to one another, and make difcult choices. We look forward to the thoughtful conversation at NCSS Connections about how to use literature most effectively in the service of social studies. Please join us! Andrea and Jeannette
Notes 1. Andrea S. Libresco, Jeannette Balantic, and Jonie Kipling, Every Book is a Social Studies Book: How to Meet Standards K-6 (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011). 2. James S. Leming, Lucien Ellington, and Mark Schug, The State of Social Studies: A National Random Survey of Elementary and Middle School Social Studies Teachers, Social Education 70, no.5 (2006): 322-327; Jennifer McMurrer, Choices, Changes, and Challenges: Curriculum and Instruction in the NCLB Era, Center on Education Policy (2007), www.cepdc.org; Katherine A. OConnor, Tina L. Heafner, and Eric Groce, Advocating for Social Studies: Documenting the Decline and Doing Something About It, Social Education 71, no. 5 (2007): 255- 260; Jeff Passe, Tracy C. Rock, Tina L. Heafner, Katherine A. OConnor, Sandra Oldendorf, Amy J. Good, and Sandra Byrd, One State Closer to a National Crisis: A Report on Elementary Social Studies in North Carolina Schools, Theory and Research in Social Education 34, no. 4 (2006): 455483; Phillip J. VanFossen, Reading and Math Take So Much of the Time An Overview of Social Studies Instruction in Elementary Classrooms in Indiana, Theory and Research in Social Education 33, no. 3 (2005): 376-403. 3. Janet Alleman and Jere Brophy, Is Curriculum Integration a Boon or a Threat to Studies? Social Education 57, no. 6 (1993): 287-291; Janet Alleman and Jere Brophy, Trade-Offs Embedded in the Literary Approach to Early Elementary Social Studies, Social Studies and the Young Learner 6, no. 3 (1994): 68.

Teaching Reading with the Social Studies Standards: Elementary Units that Integrate Great Books, Social Studies, and the Common Core Standards
Edited by Syd Golston and Peggy Altoff
NCSS Bulletin 112, 118 pp., 2012 This book has been designed for elementary teachers who want to meet the Common Core Standards for Reading Literature as they teach social studies. The class activities recommended in this book for each grade level allow teachers to accomplish the following objectives: 1. Achieve specic learning expectations outlined in the National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies. 2. Achieve specic objectives outlined in the Common Core Standards for Reading Literature (as well as selected other Common Core Standards) This books opening chapters lay the groundwork for the eective teaching of standards-based social studies through the use of literature. Most of the volume consists of reviews and annotations of outstanding childrens books for the elementary grades. The contributors examine seven outstanding childrens books in depth (one for each grade from pre-K through 5) and recommend scores of other suitable books. Item 120112 Price: $29.95/NCSS Members: $19.95
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