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​ Intergrating Balanced Literacy and Social Studies

Intergrating balanced literacy and social studes is easier than you may think, especially since reading and writing go hand in hand with social studies.

You already have the students' individual reading and writing levels. If you are teaching a lesson on the first Thanksgiving and want the students to do independent work, you find different leveled trade books on the first Thankgiving and assign them properly to each of the students. Assigning a writing assignment works in the same way. You assign the assignment based on the individual's writing ability. Some students may be writing a paragraph while some students may be writing an essay.