#nche2016: Elementary history instruction and why we should care

History Tech

Second session here at #nche2016.

Taking Back Elementary Education: Advocating for History to Improve Reading Comprehension by David Klemm. Great topic. Something we need to be talking about. But remember folks that it’s still just 8:00 in the am.

Basic idea is that reading in context is huge. He started by sharing an excerpt about baseball as an example.

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A New Round of Classic Rewrites, From Austen to Brontë — TIME

Classics enter the Western canon for a reason: because as readers, we can’t stop going back to them. But for better or worse, neither can writers. Every year, we get a new crop of reimagined classics, from Helen Fielding’s superb Pride and Prejudice rewrite Bridget Jones’s Diary (1996) to Seth Grahame-Smith’s more violent Pride and…

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