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- Title
The "Bates" Shop: Fishing for Primary Source Documents.
- Authors
Bates, David
- Abstract
Teachers have known for decades about the importance of using primary source documents to help students gain a more complete understanding of historical events. According to the Library of Congress website (www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources/whyuse.html), "Primary sources provide a window into the past--unfiltered access to the records of artistic, social, scientific, and political thought and achievement during the specific period under study, produced by people who lived during that period." Thanks to resources such as the Library of Congress site, teachers have unprecedented access to thousands of documents. Using these resources brings history to life, and perhaps more importantly for IRCJ readers, exposes students to a variety of text structures and formats. In this column, examples for teachers to incorporate primary source documents with language arts will be provided.
- Subjects
ENGLISH language education; NONVERBAL communication; LANGUAGE acquisition; SOCIAL media; COMMUNICATION
- Publication
Illinois Reading Council Journal, 2017, Vol 46, Issue 1, p73
- ISSN
1082-555X
- Publication type
Article