I have found in my teaching that anytime you can connect multiple subjects together to teach about a concept or topic student learning thrives. For example, if students are reading a historical fiction book in their reading class about the Holocaust such as The Book Thief by Markus Zusak and reading informational books about the Holocaust in their history class they are able to make valuable learning connections. Using historical fiction and informational books together to teach history is a great idea. When researching this topic I found a wonderful lesson example of this on the Scholastic Teachers website. The URL is http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/lessonplans/instructor/social1.htm. Tarry Lindquist, the author of this lesson offers great resources, ideas, and information about this topic. They are as follows:
References:
Lindquist, T. (2011). Why and how / teach with historical fiction. Retrieved June 27, 2011, from Scholastic’s website: http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/lessonplans/instructor/social1.htm
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