Reading+Like+A+Historian

=Reading LIke A Historian= Common Core Standards Addressed:
 * **Reading:** Students read, understand, and respond to informational text in the content area – with an emphasis on comprehension, vocabulary acquisition, and making connections among ideas and between texts with a focus on textual evidence. (Full text of Common Core reading standards for social studies 6-12)

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=Sourcing: Identifying author and intent= media type="custom" key="22892590"

=Contextualization: Applying historical details to a reading= media type="custom" key="22892684"

=Corroboration: Using multiple documents to get the full story= media type="custom" key="22892694"

=**Further Reading**=
 * Thinking Like A Historian-An article from the LIbrary of Congress written by STan Wineburg, director of Stanford University's Teaching with Primary Sources program.
 * [|Reading LIke A Historian]- A resource from Stanford History Education Group that includes lesson plans.
 * [|Teaching With Documents] --A teaching resource from the National Archives

=**Primary Source Document Resources**=
 * National Archives
 * World Digital Library
 * [|Library of Congress]
 * Military History Sources from The University of Washington
 * Docs Teach--A collection from the National Archives Experience
 * Times Machine - NY Times newspaper database
 * Old Magazine Articles- a database of over a billion records

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