Supporting Historical Thinking, Reading, and Writing

​Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) offers a number of free resources to help secondary history and literacy teachers improve students’ source-based analytical thinking, writing about sources, and reasoning about online texts. Here are THREE awesome resources for teachers:

1. Help students read like Historians through History Lessons
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​The curriculum teaches students how to investigate historical questions by using reading strategies such as sourcing, contextualizing, corroborating. Browse lessons by time period and download a number of posters and charts to help scaffold student learning.

​2. Measure students’ Historical Thinking with “Beyond The Bubble” Assessments

These assessments go beyond recall and memorization to develop and assess students’ thinking, reasoning, and writing about historical sources

​3. Support students’ Civic Online Reasoning with this innovative Curriculum

​This interactive resource features a number of lessons to help students improve important civic literacy skills like distinguishing fact from opinion, lateral reading, and determining “who’s behind the information?” Choose individual lessons or multiday collections.

​Visit the WRITE Center’s Resources page for more projects committed to improving student writing!