Social+Studies+Meeting



**Strategies for Building Reading Skills in Social Studies** **Focus on: Reading Online Reference Texts** Facilitators: Ann Collins and Shelley Mains, BHS Librarians Through this activity, we will identify the __ intrinsic __ skills we--as accomplished readers and researchers--bring to a reference reading task. These are the skills we need to __ explicitly teach __ our students. We will conclude with a discussion of instructional strategies for doing so.

You will be researching one of the following question:
 * ** What were the environmental effects of the Industrial Revolution in either the United States or Britain? **

Using the pre-selected library databases linked below, find three sources to help answer your question. Please use at least 2 of the databases. Jot down enough source information for you to find it again.

Take your time, and use whatever process or system comes naturally to you. Take note of your reading/comprehension strategies for our debrief.

You have 7 minutes, after which we will discuss what you found and the process you used to find it.


 * // When you have completed your search, use the post it notes to document the strategies you used to read, comprehend, and find information in the reference books. (For example, how did you know which articles to read? In what order did you use the databases? How did you zero in on the useful parts of an article? How did you know when to discard an article and move on? What search terms did you use to find good sources? Did you revise your searches? What worked for you and what did you find frustrating?) // **


 * Online Databases: **

Britannica username: psbma password: psbma ABC-CLIO username: brooklinehs password: brooklinehs