Teaching with Dear Canada Vol. 3
- Publisher
- Scholastic Canada Ltd
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2006
- Category
- General
- Recommended Age
- 8 to 12
- Recommended Grade
- 4 to 6
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780439947244
- Publish Date
- Aug 2006
- List Price
- $12.99
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Description
A ready-to-go teaching guide to accompany the popular Dear Canada series and help kids read their way into history. This third teaching guide for the Dear Canada historical fiction series focuses on Banished from Our Home, An Ocean Apart, A Trail of Broken Dreams, and Winter of Peril.
It includes an overview of teaching social studies through historical fiction and provides a summary for each book, themes for classroom discussion, cross-curricular activities, ready-to-use reproducibles, and more! Teaching With Dear Canada: Vol. 3 is the perfect tool for developing children's understanding of historical concepts while building useful social studies and language arts skills.
About the author
Amy von Heyking is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta. She is a member of the executive board of the History Education Network (THEN/HiER). Her areas of research include history teaching and learning, and the history of school curricula in Canada. She is the author of the teaching resource Teaching with Dear Canada (Scholastic Canada, 3 vols.), head author of the Teaching Social Studies Through Literature series (Scholastic Canada), and author of Creating Citizens: History and Identity in Alberta’s Schools (University of Calgary Press, 2006).