Integrated Learning: Social Studies and Literacy
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Integrated Units - Social Studies/Literacy
Grade Levels: K-5th
In the summer of 2020, the Office of Equity and Social Studies Department worked with teachers to create 30 three-day units that integrate social studies and literacy.
All units….
- are written specifically for K-5 distance learning
- include activities on SeeSaw, Schoology and Google docs
- are built around a children’s book with diverse representation - all books available as multi-user e-books
- integrate standards from social studies, literacy and other content areas
- Identify culturally responsive instructional strategies and Teaching Tolerance social justice standards
- include Courageous Conversations Classrooms, tools teachers can use to develop themselves and their classrooms to engage in meaningful conversations with students
Click here for an overview of the units, including links to digital bookshelves, e-books and a 10 minute how-to video
Questions? Contact Sherry Kempf at sherry.kempf@spps.org or Chong Xiong at chongvang.xiong@spps.org
Not SPPS staff? Contact Sherry Kempf for access.
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CEC books with Literacy and Social Studies Alignment
The CEC partnered with SPPS Social Studies and Elementary Literacy Departments to develop a data base of high quality children's literature that represent diverse groups of people, and connect grade level social studies topics with literacy instruction. They are intended to be used on Day One of the Mondo cycle as a read aloud that also provides an entry point into social studies content and writers workshop topics. At this point we have books suggested for grades 2-5.
The following data bases are intended to be works in progress - most of the books have been vetted by SPPS teachers, but there are always multiple perspectives that may not have been considered. There are always great new children's literatrue books being published as well!
All of the following books can be checked out from the CEC by filling out our resource request form. If you have any comments, questions, ideas or suggestions for new books, please contact us at cec@spps.org.
