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Reading NonfictionHow to read your Social Studies textbook
Mrs. Roopchan, 2012
Reading Social Studies
What pops into your head when somebody mentions social studies?
Social Studies
Social studies can be pretty exciting, IF YOU READ IT THE RIGHT WAY!!!!
Helps you pictures the world in the past.
Many resources—words, maps, diagrams, timelines, drawings, and photographs.
Your job is to pull together those pieces into and overall pictures of the time period.
Social Studies
Before ReadingSet a Purpose
What is your reason or purpose for reading?
PreviewLook for key information that you are about to read.
PlanWhat did you learn from your preview?
What graphic organizer will help you to meet your reading purpose?
Social Studies
During ReadingRead with a Purpose
Look for information related to your reading purpose.
Write down important details on STICKY NOTES or on your GRAPHIC ORGANIZER.
ConnectActive readers make connections with what they read.
T-T (Text to Text)
T-S (Text to Self)
T-W (Text to World)
Graphic OrganizersTimeline
Helps you to remember the important dates and events in the lesson.
WebsHelps you keep related details and ideas together.
5 W’s and H OrganizerHelps you to make sure that you ask questions about all the key facts.
K-W-L ChartHelps you connect the information to questions you have about the subject.
How Are Textbooks Organized
Time OrderThe order in which things happen.
Timeline Graphic Organizer
Topic OrderFacts and Ideas by topic
Webs Graphic Organizer
5 W’s and H Graphic Organizer
Social StudiesAfter Reading
Pause and ReflectThink again about why you are reading.
What were you trying to find out?
Did anything confuse you?
RereadGood readers reread all the time.
Use a different reading strategy. Cause and EffectCause is the original event.
Effect is the result of the event.
This organizer helps to tell what happened and why it happened.
RememberThink about how what you’re reading about connects with what you know already and with your own life.
