First, I want to identify the topics that are associated with 5th grade in my school district (Changing Face of North America AKA Colonial America, American Revolution, United States Constitution).
With that in mind, I've created a document that includes the links/synopsis of all issues of Cobblestone that are connected to 5th grade social studies. As teachers look to maximize learning time and connect learning across contents, there is a growing need to use content-rich non-fiction within reading instruction. I feel that Cobblestone, a history magazine for ages 9-14, delivers wonderful non-fiction that is short enough to use with guided reading groups or for jigsaw reading activities around a topic/theme/concept.
In a student's world of growing facts and information, we can't expect them to learn more and more and more. We have to help them connect the facts to more enduring concepts and "understandings." By elevating concepts, we give them the conceptual lens for making sense of their world. When we allow them to do this type of thinking, that's when the learning begins to make sense.
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