Reading Thematically: History Stories

Reading Thematically: History Stories helps students develop a love for reading as they experience history though a good book. The unit focuses on essential reading skills such as selecting a book, skimming, summarizing, and evaluating while giving students opportunities to apply literary terms such as setting, plot, characters, and theme. In each lesson, students read, write, discuss, think, or create. The final activities give them choices and flexibility and allow for creativity—three things junior high students strongly desire. Above all, the unit will make them think. With this unit’s concepts and skills as basic building blocks, students develop a solid foundation to become lifelong readers, independent researchers, and critical thinkers.

About the Series:
English & Language Arts curriculum units contain complete lesson plans with preliminary and follow-up work, teacher notes with background and rationale, ready-to-use worksheets, and suggested answers for student questions. These materials encourage the development of thinking , reading, speaking, research, and writing skills as well as critical thinking skills such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.