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ELED 436 - Teaching Social Studies to Diverse Learners

Notes from 9/20/24 class on Teaching Lateral Reading to Elementary Level Students

Teaching lateral reading to elementary

Using multiple books on the same topic and compare - information - is the same information mentioned in both books. If the same info is mentioned in both books - is it presented differently

Provide sentence stems with the different sources you give the students - provide students with the websites and books already picked out
 

Use Time for Kids - another kind of news source but Kid appropriate articles 

YouTube Kids - 

Do as a class wide lesson - not individual - students could pick the sources and give to the teacher and then the teacher goes through them source by source to demonstrate the process

Do you have 2 different websites the kids compare? Doing the front end work for the students

Collaborate with the school librarian
 

Additional Lateral Reading / Evidence

https://cor.inquirygroup.org/curriculum/collections/intro-lessons 

https://cor.inquirygroup.org/curriculum/lessons/intro-to-whats-the-evidence-saturday-school?cuid=intro-lessons

Lateral Reading Activity

Open up:

 

Take a look at the 4th Lesson: Lateral Reading with News Stories 

The Civic Online Reasoning Lessons are designed for Grades 6-12.

 

Look at both the student and teacher materials for this lesson.

How would you modify this for use in an elementary school classroom?