Humanizing History: Using Historical Fiction Texts to Develop Disciplinary and Racial Literacies
This article highlights how we, as teacher educators, use historical fiction to engage teacher candidates in inquiry-based social studies lessons to develop their disciplinary and racial literacy skills and practices. Then, we offer an example of how to integrate the C3 inquiry approach usingFinding Langston (Cline-Ransome, 2018), a historical fiction text set during the Great Migration, to engage elementary-aged readers in explorations of history, sparking children ’s agency and engagement in their own learning.
Source: Reading Teacher - Category: Child Development Authors: Leslie La Croix,
Colleen K. Vesely,
Bweikia F. Steen Tags: Teaching and Learning in Action Source Type: research
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