This Steck Vaughn American history curriculum facilitates teaching history to remedial readers.
The America's History Teacher's Guide has been written to accompany the softback student book for this curriculum. You may also purchase both of these items together as a complete set. America's History for remedial readers breaks through reading barriers! Text written at a 5th to 6th grade reading level makes American history easy for struggling readers to grasp. Recommended for students in grades 5 and up.
This text begins thousands of years ago with Native Americans who lived throughout the Americas. It ends with a look at challenges facing America in the 21st century. The curriculum consists of 37 chapters divided into 9 units with chapter and unit review questions.
Each of the 37 chapters include a special one page biography of famous people from America's past. Students are required to keep a journal notebook in which they will complete various writing assignments in each chapter. At the end of each chapter, a summary of the main ideas is provided along with review exercises which include the following:
Vocabulary building "finish the sentence" exercise
Journal writing assignment
Comprehension check where students are asked to "finish the paragraph."
Critical Thinking exercise
Full color illustrations and photographs on almost every page help bring history to life again. Unit titles are listed below to show the content covered.
1. America's Early Years
2. From Colonies to a Nation
3. The Nation Grows and Changes
4. The Civil War and Reconstruction
5. The United States becomes an Industrial Nation
6. The United States as a World Power
The Great Depression and World War 2
8. The Years After World War 2
9. The United States Today and Tomorrow
At the end of the book is a full color map of the world, map of the United States, political map of the world, state capitols, state flags and symbols, images of all of the presidents of the United States, and a 17 page glossary.
Our American history curriculum books for remedial reading students can be used in classroom history textbook or as a home school history curriculum. The U.S. history lesson plans facilitate teaching history.
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