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Standard 6.0 Social Studies Skills and Processes: Students shall use reading, writing, and thinking processes and skills to gain knowledge and understanding of political, historical, and current events using chronological and spatial thinking, economic reasoning, and historical interpretation, by framing and evaluating questions from primary and secondary sources.
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A. Read to Learn and Construct Meaning about Social Studies
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1. Use appropriate strategies and opportunities to increase understandings of social studies vocabulary
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a. Acquire and apply new vocabulary through investigating, listening, independent reading and discussing a variety of print and non-print sources
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b. Identify and use new vocabulary acquired through study of relationships to prior knowledge and experiences
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c. Use context clues to understand new social studies vocabulary
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d. Use new vocabulary in speaking and writing to gain and extend content knowledge and clarify expression
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2. Use strategies to prepare for reading (before reading)
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a. Identify the characteristics of informational texts, such as print features, graphic aids, informational aids, organizational aids, and online features
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b. Preview the text by examining features, such as the title, pictures, maps, illustrations, photographs, charts, timelines, graphs, and icons
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c. Set a purpose for reading the text
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d. Ask questions and make predictions about the text
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e. Make connections to the text using prior knowledge and experiences
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3. Use strategies to monitor understanding and derive meaning from text and portions of text (during reading)
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a. Identify and use knowledge of organizational structures, such as chronological order, cause/effect, main ideas and details, description, similarities/differences, and problem/solution to gain meaning
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b. Reread slowly and carefully, restate, or read on and revisit difficult parts
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c. Use a graphic organizer or another note-taking technique to record important ideas or information
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d. Look back through the text to search for connections between and among ideas
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e. Make, confirm, or adjust predictions about the text
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f. Periodically summarize or paraphrase important ideas while reading
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g. Visualize what was read for deeper meaning
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h. Explain personal connections to the ideas or information in the text
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4. Use strategies to demonstrate understanding of the text (after reading)
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a. Identify and explain what is directly stated in the text
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b. Identify, paraphrase, or summarize the main idea of the text
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c. Determine and explain the author's purpose
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d. Distinguish between facts and opinions
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e. Explain whether or not the author's opinion is presented fairly
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f. Explain what is not directly stated in the text by drawing inferences
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g. Confirm or refute predictions made about the text to form new ideas
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h. Connect the text to prior knowledge or personal experiences
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i. Draw conclusions and make generalizations based on the text, multiple texts, and/or prior knowledge
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B. Write to Learn and Communicate Social Studies Understandings
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1. Use informal writing strategies, such as journal writing, note taking, quick writes, and graphic organizers to clarify, organize, remember and/or express new understandings
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a. Identify key ideas
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b. Connect key ideas to prior knowledge (personal experience, text, and world)
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2. Use formal writing, such as multi-paragraph essays, historical investigations, research reports, letters and summaries to inform
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a. Identify form, audience, topic, and purpose before writing
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b. Organize facts and/or data to support a topic
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c. Provide introduction, body, and conclusion
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d. Cite sources of information
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3. Use formal writing, such as multi-paragraph essays, historical investigations, editorials, and letters to persuade
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a. Identify form audience, topic and purpose
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b. State a clear opinion or position
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c. Support the opinion or position with facts and/or data
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4. Use timed, on-demand writing to demonstrate understanding on assessments (Constructed Responses)
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a. Address the topic
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b. Provide accurate information
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c. Support topic with appropriate details
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d. Incorporate social studies knowledge
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C. Ask Social Studies Questions
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1. Identify a topic that requires further study
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a. Identify prior knowledge about the topic
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b. Pose questions the about the topic
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c. Formulate research questions
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d. Develop a plan for how to answer questions about the topic
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2. Identify a problem/situation that requires further study
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a. Define the problem/situation
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b. Identify prior knowledge about the problem/situation
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c. Pose questions about the problem/ situation from a variety of perspectives
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d. Pose questions that elicit higher order thinking responses
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e. Formulate simple research questions
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f. Develop a plan for how to answer questions about the problem/situation
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D. Acquire Social Studies Information
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1. Identify primary and secondary sources of information that relate to the topic/situation/problem being studied
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a. Gather and read appropriate print sources, such as textbooks, government documents, timelines, trade books, and web sites
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b. Read and obtain information from texts representing diversity in content, culture, authorship, and perspective
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c. Locate and gather data and information from appropriate non-print sources, such as music, artifacts, charts, maps, graphs, photographs, video clips, illustrations, paintings, political cartoons, interviews, and oral histories
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2. Engage in field work that relates to the topic/ situation/ problem being studied
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a. Gather data
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b. Make and record observations
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c. Design and conduct surveys and oral histories
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E. Organize Social Studies Information
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1. Organize information from non-print sources
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a. Prioritize information gathered according to importance and relevance
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b. Distinguish factual from fictional information
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c. Find relationships between gathered information
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d. Display information on various types of graphic organizers, maps, and charts
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e. Categorize information obtained from surveys and field work
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2. Organize information from print sources
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a. Prioritize information gathered according to importance and relevance
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b. Distinguish factual from fictional information
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c. Find relationships between gathered information
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d. Construct various types of graphic organizers, maps, and charts to display information
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F. Analyze Social Studies Information
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1. Interpret information from primary and secondary sources
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a. Interpret information in maps, charts and graphs
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b. Interpret information from field studies and surveys
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c. Analyze a document to determine point of view
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d. Analyze the perspective of the author
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e. Identify the bias and prejudice
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2. Evaluate information from a variety of sources
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a. Compare information from a variety of sources
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b. Compare information to prior knowledge
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c. Determine the reliability of the document
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3. Synthesize information from a variety of sources
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a. Recognize relationships in and among ideas or events, such as cause and effect, sequential order, main idea, and details
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G. Answer Social Studies Questions
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1. Describe how the country has changed over time and how people have contributed to its change, drawing from maps, photographs, newspapers, and other sources
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a. Present social studies information in a variety ways, such as mock trials, simulations, debates, and skits
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b. Engage in civic participation and public discourse
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2. Use historic contexts to answer questions
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a. Use historically accurate resources to answer questions, make predictions, and support ideas
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b. Explain why historic interpretations vary and are subject to change
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c. Construct a sound historical interpretation
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3. Use current events/issues to answer questions
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a. Summarize the main points of an issue explaining different viewpoints
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b. Make a decision based on the analysis of issues and evaluate the consequences of these decisions
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c. Identify and formulate a position on a course of action or an issue
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d. Propose and justify solutions to social studies problems
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