Teaching Materials

Educators are all too familiar with the unfortunate truth that what is tested drives a teacher’s instructional focus, energy, and time. Unfortunately, because …

Introduction Classroom discussions provide important learning opportunities for students in history classrooms, helping learners to articulate central ideas, …

Academic language is used in specific ways in history textbooks. A lot of complex information is often packed within a single paragraph. History teachers may …

The classes at the urban San Diego charter school where I teach are not tracked. As a result, 100% of the juniors on campus are enrolled in AP U.S. History. …

One of the difficulties of teaching history to English language learners is that their thinking is very often far ahead of their ability to express themselves …

Google Translate is a web based tool which allows its users to instantly translate between 57 different languages. The page can translate words, sentences, web …

Overview

Integrating English Language Development (ELD) standards and objectives into your lesson planning can strengthen both your students’ understanding of history …

Summarizing and paraphrasing is a useful practice for English Language Learners (ELLs) who struggle with understanding history text. By learning how to …

Teaching history to English Language Learners poses special challenges owing to its conceptual density and assumed cultural knowledge. It seems obvious that …

As we ask students to become more sophisticated in their historical thinking, we expect them to move from reporting historical events to explaining and …

The qualities that make a piece of history writing “good” or “effective” vary, depending on the purpose and genre. For students, this can feel like a moving …

SQ3R is an effective note-taking system that helps English Language Learners self-monitor their comprehension before, during, and after reading a passage in a …

Quick Overview This tried and true lesson, a blend of history and civics, guides students through a process of evaluating John Locke’s theory of “living in the …

We history teachers who teach English language learners face a dilemma: how can we teach our students a rigorous history curriculum rich with opportunities to …

The Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History project offers teaching resources and guidance for conducting document-centered inquiry in middle and high …

The Bracero History Archive—a collaborative project of George Mason University, the Smithsonian, Brown University, and the University of Texas, El Paso—is an …

Hispano Music & Culture of the Northern Rio Grande, housed at the Library of Congress’s digital archive America Memory, is a collection of religious and secular …

The Electronic Schoolhouse / La Escuela Electrónica is a bilingual educational resource of historical resources developed by the New York State Archives, a …

America’s Heritage: An Adventure in Liberty is a curriculum designed to teach students about the roots of our heritage and the responsibilities of American …

The World Digital Library, a collaborative project of the Library of Congress, UNESCO, and other partners, is a collection of primary documents from around the …

Graphic organizers can be effective scaffolds for all history students, but they can be especially helpful for students with limited English proficiency. They …

Finding creative ways to include English Language Learners in classroom activities can be challenging regardless of the teacher’s dedication. One activity that …

Historical Thinking Matters contains sets of primary documents in both English and Spanish that can be used to create lessons that will allow students to …