How do you read a primary source document?
Read the primary document like a historian yourself. Make note of contextual clues (author, date, place, audience) and how those impact your understanding of the document. Underline the author’s main argument and supporting evidence. Make notes in the margins about the author’s purpose and the argument’s credibility.
What strategies can a reader use to understand a story?
The key comprehension strategies are described below.
- Using Prior Knowledge/Previewing.
- Predicting.
- Identifying the Main Idea and Summarization.
- Questioning.
- Making Inferences.
- Visualizing.
- Story Maps.
- Retelling.
What other resources can readers use to understand content area words?
Resources are things outside of the text that help a reader determine meaning, such as dictionaries, thesauri, and even asking other people. Teachers can also model these word-solving strategies using technology such as smartphones or computers.
What are the 6 C’s of analyzing primary sources?
6 C’s of Primary Source Analysis
- Content: What is the main idea?
- Conclusions. What contributions does this make to our understanding of history?
- Citation. Who created this?
- Connections. How does this connect to what you already know?
- Communication.
- Historical vs.
- Perspective vs.
- Facts vs.
What defines a good reader?
Good readers continuously evaluate their predictions and revise them as needed. Good readers are selective as they read. Some good readers may also create mental images, or visualize a setting, event, or character to help them understand a passage in a text. Good readers monitor their comprehension as they read.
What are some examples of content area words?
A now-preferred synonym for subject or subject area among educators, content area refers to a defined domain of knowledge and skill in an academic program. The most common content areas in public schools are English (or English language arts), mathematics, science, and social studies (or history and civics).
How do you evaluate primary sources?
Evaluating Primary Sources
- Who is the author or creator?
- What biases or assumptions may have influenced the author or creator?
- Who was the intended audience?
- What is the origin of the primary source?
- What was the significance of the source at the time it was created?
What are 5 examples of a primary source?
Examples of Primary Sources
- archives and manuscript material.
- photographs, audio recordings, video recordings, films.
- journals, letters and diaries.
- speeches.
- scrapbooks.
- published books, newspapers and magazine clippings published at the time.
- government publications.
- oral histories.
What are the 7 types of elaboration?
This time we will look at elaboration methods that you can use to help students understand and remember….Mnemonics
- Keywords. Remember word pairs, either verbal or visual.
- Chains.
- Rhyme.
- Acronyms.
- Word and Picture.
- Sequence.
- Gestures.
- Words to Numbers.
What are the 7 habits of a good reader?
The seven habits are visualizing, activating schema, questioning, inferring, determining importance, monitoring for meaning and synthesizing. Visualizing allows the student to form mental pictures about what they are reading to aid their comprehension of a text.
Who is a poor reader?
In simple terms a poor reader is anyone not reading as well as other children of the same age. Interestingly many children can be ‘poor readers’ at an early age but develop into excellent readers later on.
