Empowering ESOL Social Studies Students with Historical Based Children's Literature
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https://doi.org/10.52242/gatesol.31Keywords:
Children's Literature, ESOL Social Studies, Historical Based Children's Literature, Culturally Relevant, Linguistically RelevantAbstract
In this self-reflective essay, an experienced secondary social studies speaks for the use of historical based children’s literature in the high school ESOL social studies classroom. The teacher, who is certified to teach social studies and ESOL, explains the activities and books she uses with her Untied States history students to make her classroom more culturally and linguistically relevant to her students.References
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Bernhardt, E. B. (2011). Understanding Advanced Second- Language Reading. Taylor &Francis.
Dunne, K. and Martell, C. (2013). Teaching America’s past to newest Americans: immigrant students and United States history. Social Education 77(4), 192–195
Ladson-Billings,G. (2009). The dreamkeepers. (2nd anniversary ed.) San Francisco: Jossey- Bass Publishers
Nieto, S. (1999). The light in their eyes, creating multicultural learning communities. Teachers College Press
Southall, A.B and Bohan, C. H. (2014) Helping ESOL students find their voice in social studies. The Georgia Social Studies Journal. Spring 2014, Volume 4, Number 1, pp. 1-9
Suárez-Orozco, C., Suárez-Orozco, M. M., & Todorova, I. (2008). Learning a new land, immigrant students in American society. Belknap Press.
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12/13/2015
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Empowering ESOL Social Studies Students with Historical Based Children’s Literature. (2015). GATESOL Journal, 25(1). https://doi.org/10.52242/gatesol.31