Writing in the Social Studies - by Aaron Pribble (Paperback)

About the Book

On each page are strategies, tips, and takeaways for teachers to implement in their social studies classroom, while every chapter concludes with helpful handouts to distribute directly to students.

Book Synopsis

On each page are strategies, tips, and takeaways for teachers to implement in their social studies classroom, while every chapter concludes with helpful handouts to distribute directly to students.

Review Quotes

Aaron Pribble connects all the dots in Writing in the Social Studies: A Practical Guide for Teachers. He lays out why writing is critical within the disciplines of social studies and provides a practical and classroom-ready set of tools for teachers to use to support student writing.

Inevitably, the best advice about teaching comes from a fellow teacher. Such is the case here. Focusing on the particular writing skills required in social studies, Pribble offers a step-by-step plan for mastering summary, analysis, and research. Whether you are new to the history classroom or glimpse retirement on the horizon, I guarantee you will find ideas here for improving your students' writing skills. And as night follows day, so will their learning.

Working with Aaron Pribble over many years, I have watched him work to develop, vet and implement strategies to teach these skills to his students. I have borrowed many of his ideas for use with my own students. Now he has gone a step further and compiled his ideas and strategies into a must-have, user-friendly book that provides lessons that are sure to help any social studies teacher transform their approach to teaching their students how to write.

Writing is one of the most important, yet least taught skills in American schools today. Aaron Pribble to the rescue! Writing in the Social Studies, which might also be called Writing for the Rest of Us, is, hands down, the best book on teaching writing I've read in many years. An essential resource for every secondary school and college teacher and an invaluable guide for new teachers.

About the Author

Aaron Pribble is the author of Teacherland: Inside the Myth of the American Educator and Pitching in the Promised Land: A Story of the First and Only Season in the Israel Baseball League. An award-winning educator, Aaron teaches social studies at Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley, California