Supporting Elementary Students' Sourcing of Historical Texts

Sourcing involves interrogating historical documents, asking questions about their attributes to determine their relation to the historical event or time period under study. In this article, a university researcher and a sixth‐grade teacher describe a set of heuristics that the teacher developed for...

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Published inThe Reading teacher Vol. 72; no. 3; pp. 301 - 311
Main Authors Popp, Jacquelynn S., Hoard, Jodi
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Newark Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.11.2018
Wiley-Blackwell
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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ISSN0034-0561
1936-2714
DOI10.1002/trtr.1715

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Summary:Sourcing involves interrogating historical documents, asking questions about their attributes to determine their relation to the historical event or time period under study. In this article, a university researcher and a sixth‐grade teacher describe a set of heuristics that the teacher developed for supporting her students’ sourcing of historical texts. The heuristics derive from findings of a longitudinal case study that the researcher conducted about the teacher's learning to shift to a disciplinary literacy approach in her social studies classroom, as well as the teacher's insights about her own process of learning to scaffold her students’ sourcing. Considering the limited resources for addressing elementary teachers’ sourcing instruction, these heuristics are offered so other teachers can adopt and adapt them to their own teaching contexts to meet the specific, diverse needs of their students.
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ISSN:0034-0561
1936-2714
DOI:10.1002/trtr.1715