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Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text.

Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text.

The teaching guides developed for Middle/High schools were created to support 8th grade American history content standards and learning frameworks. They present concise menus of ideas for teachers working with developing critical thinkers. Where the Elementary level teaching... Read Full Overview

People are coming to America--all kinds of people. If you're European, you come in search of freedom or riches. If you're African, you come in chains. And what about the Indians, what is happening to them? Soon with the influx of so many people, thirteen unique colonies are born,... Read Full Overview

Presents the history of the United States from the colonization of the New World through the middle of the eighteenth century.

People are coming to America--all kinds of people. If you're European, you come in search of freedom or riches. If you're African, you come in chains. And what about the Indians, what is happening to them? Soon with the influx of so many people, thirteen unique colonies are born,... Read Full Overview

This A History of US guide includes teaching strategies, conceptual frameworks, and assessment suggestions as well as a range of activities for enrichement and extension.

Being a book about a narrow string of English settlements and the people who live in them. Benjamin Franklin (wise and witty) is one of them. So is Peter Stuyvesant (nasty but efficient). Spaniards--priests and settlers--and Indians--the land's natives--live nearby. Do they all... Read Full Overview

The teaching guides developed for Elementary schools were created to support 5th grade American history content standards and learning frameworks. They present lesson ideas for each chapter and also groups of chapters called Parts. Part activities help to set context for reading... Read Full Overview

Presents the history of the United States from the colonization of the New World through the middle of the eighteenth century.

Each book in this award-winning series is accurate and reliable history written in the tradition of great storytelling. The narrative and informal text includes off-beat, little-known events and singular personalities that make the traditional meat-and-potatoes of American history... Read Full Overview

This A History of US guide includes teaching strategies, conceptual frameworks, and assessment suggestions as well as a range of activities for enrichement and extension.