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The Common Core Learning Standards describe the importance of teaching students how to comprehend informational text. They are asked to read closely, make inferences, cite evidence, analyze arguments
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Beth Dichter's insight:
There are great websites available for primary source documents and this post looks at six of them.
* The National Archives
* Docs Teach (a part of the National Archives but geared to teachers organized into periods of history)
* Spartacus Educational - a resource for global history
* Fordham University - another resource for global history which is organied by periods of history
* The Avalon Project - located at Yale this is also geared to global history and includes a database (starting with ancient and midieval documents) as well as links to human rights documents
* 'Life Magazine' Photo Archive- through a project with Google and Life you may now search millions of images published in 'Life' by key words or by decades (1860s - 1970s)
Additional resources are listed for the iPad (as in free apps)
Informational text is an important component of the Common Core. These resources will provide students with the opportunity to look at many great primary source documents, be they text or visual!
Always looking for these!
How do you determine your primary sources of information?
Resources for educators trying to find primary sources