Building students' historical literacies : learning to read and reason with historical texts and evidence / Jeffery D. Nokes.

1. Building historical literacies -- 2. Defining historical literacies -- 3. Teaching historical literacies -- 4. Developing an appropriate epistemic stance for working with multiple texts -- 5. Using historians' heuristics for working with primary sources -- 6. Helping students make inferences with artifacts -- 7. Developing metaconceptual understanding with visual texts -- 8. Developing historical empathy and perspective taking through historical fiction -- 9. Fostering healthy skepticism using textbooks and secondary sources -- 10. Avoiding reductionist thinking with audio and video texts -- 11. Building an argument with quantitative historical evidence -- 12. Engaging in critical intertextual analysis with multimodal texts -- 13. Finding a pattern in building historical literacies.

How can teachers incorporate the richness of historical resources into classrooms in ways that are true to the discipline of history and are pedagogically sound? Now in its second edition, this book explores the notion of historical literacy, adopts a research-supported stance on literacy processes, and promotes the integration of content-area literacy instruction into history content teaching. Providing an original focus on the discipline-specific literacies of historical inquiry, the new edition presents a deeper examination of difficult histories and offers new strategies that can be applied to all genres of historical inquiry. Nokes surveys a broad range of texts, including those that historians and non-historians both use and produce in understanding history; and includes a wide variety of practical instructional strategies immediately available to teachers. Featuring new examples and practical resources, the new edition highlights the connection between historical literacies and the critical reading and communication skills that are necessary for informed civic engagement. Equipped with study guides, graphic organizers, and scoring guides for classroom use, this text is an essential resource for pre-service and practicing teachers in literacy and social studies education.