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Coteaching Reading Comprehension Strategies in Elementary School Libraries: Maximizing Your Impact

Chapter 9: Synthesizing: Advancing Lesson


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Additional Resources for a Civil Rights Text Set:
The Beatitudes: From Slavery to Civil Rights by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Tim Ladwig (Eerdman’s Books for Young Readers, 2010)

The Civil Rights Movement by Jennifer Zeiger (Children’s Press, 2012)

Delivering Justice: WW Law and the Right for Civil Rights by Jim Haskins, illustrated by Benny Andrews (Candlewick, 2005)

Heroes for Civil Rights by David A. Adler, illustrated by Bill Farnsworth (Holiday House, 2008)

Nobody Gonna Turn Me ‘Round: Stories and Songs of the Civil Rights Movement by Doreen Rapport, illustrated by Shane W. Evans (Candlewick, 2006)

Sit-in: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Brian Pinkney (Little, Brown, 2010)

We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March by Cynthia Levinson (Peachtree, 2012)

AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Learner:

  • Read, view, and listen for information presented in any format (e.g., textual, visual, media, digital) in order to make inferences and gather meaning. (1.1.6)
  • Collaborate with others to broaden and deepen understanding. (1.1.9)
  • Continue an inquiry-based research process by applying critical-thinking skills (analysis, synthesis, evaluation, organization) to information and knowledge in order to construct new understandings, draw conclusions, and create new knowledge. (2.1.1)
  • Organize knowledge so it is useful. (2.1.2)
  • Assess the quality and effectiveness of the learning product. (3.4.2)
  • Respond to literature and creative expressions of ideas in various formats and genres. (4.1.)

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