Created to help students develop basic social studies skills and to expand rudimentary skills such as reading and listening, this text is invaluable as a supplement for students taking global studies, world history, or geography courses.
All reading selections, writing exercises, maps, and illustrations reflect materials students regularly encounter in social studies classes. Excellent preparation for standardized tests and competency exams.
Features:
- Students will learn how to read better, to find main ideas and facts, to separate facts from opinions, and to arrange events in sequence.
- Focuses on essential reading comprehension skills needed for understanding key social studies concepts.
- Develops strong writing skills for constructing complete sentences and paragraphs when answering questions and opinion essays.
- Improves analytical skills for using maps and charts; picture, circle, bar, and line graphs; and photographs, historical prints, and cartoons.
- The text develops essential skills needed for answering Document-Based Questions.
- The text presents basic types of map projections and discusses the good and bad points of each.
- Frequent checks of understanding with answers and explanations and short passages keep students engaged.
- Students encounter increasingly complex ideas as they progress through the chapters.
- Understanding is assessed through multiple-choice, true-or-false, essay, constructed-response, and Document-Based Questions.
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