free online tools for high school and college classes!
Welcome Guest!
Teachers are welcome to read and post on Teachers.Net.
Login to access to these free features:
| • Relaxed spam filters • Post pics, links & comments • Get notified of responses |
• Join teacher groups • Apply to teacher jobs • Post a resume |
| LOGIN |
Welcome Guest!
You must login to comment on posts.
Login to access to these free features:
| • Relaxed spam filters • Post links & upload pics • Get notified of responses |
• Join teacher groups • Apply to teacher jobs • Post a resume |
| LOGIN |
Welcome Guest!
Your account must login to post.
Login to access to these free features:
| • Relaxed spam filters • Post, comment, & upload pics • Get notified of responses |
• Join teacher groups • Apply to teacher jobs • Post a resume |
| LOGIN |
I teach 8th grade social studies (U.S. History). Our district will be giving formal assessments related to primary sources.
Many of our students are at-risk students and vocabulary - in general - is limited, let alone vocabulary contained in documents from the 1800s.
Does anyone have suggestions for how you have taught students to learn these vocabulary words in context. In other words, when I use primary documents, I either have the original version with side margin notes to help them understand the vocabulary, or I use a word bank. However, they won't have those things available on their assessment.
Many of our students are at-risk students and vocabulary - in general - is limited, let alone vocabulary contained in documents from the 1800s.
Does anyone have suggestions for how you have taught students to learn these vocabulary words in context. In other words, when I use primary documents, I either have the original version with side margin notes to help them understand the vocabulary, or I use a word bank. However, they won't have those things available on their assessment.
More discussions on the Social Studies Teachers Chatboard...
Teaching virtually suggestions
Question about a new resource
Government Course
US history, social studies - HS
Teacher Chatboards
Let's hope the District chooses a primary source with reasonable vocabulary. It would make no sense to choose a primary source that uses obscure words. Of course, it really makes no sense to test at-risk students with primary sources from the past but those are the times we live in.
There's no solution t...See More