This Issue's Theme: Literacy Integration
This issue provides ideas and strategies for using primary sources to support literacy instruction. Students build literacy through reading and writing across the curriculum, using a number of different media.
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Primary Sources and Literacy
In this feature article, the authors link literacy and primary source-based instruction and share practical information on how to successfully teach literacy using primary sources. -
Research and Current Thinking
Summaries of and links to online resources—articles, research reports, Web sites, and white papers—that provide research and current thinking relating to the issue's theme. -
Teacher Spotlight
Emily Frazier, a middle-school history teacher in Fairfax County, Virginia, uses student writing about primary sources to both promote literacy skills and deepen content knowledge. -
Learning Activity – Elementary Level
In this literacy-based activity, students take a close analytical look at an historical print advertisement for a slave market, and discover what it can tell them about slavery during this era. -
Learning Activity – Secondary Level
Students will continue building their reading skills and develop a richer understanding of the Civil Rights Movement through this activity, which focuses on Jackie Robinson's "This I Believe" speech. 
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