Montgomery History-Social Science Teacher Support Literacy

In her 6th grade social studies classroom, teacher Edelmira Gomez’ students are learning about river systems and ancient peoples as a way of frontloading concepts for their interdisciplinary project with science, math, and English. They are also building literacy strategies that they can use in other classrooms such as focused annotation, reading passages multiple times for a variety of purposes, and engaging in collaborative conversations. Gomez is using sentence frames and reflection questions to guide students in grade level expectations for reading, writing, speaking, and listening. This is just one example of fostering academic mindsets and helping students see connections to other classes which supports one of Montgomery’s instructional goals for the 2018-2019 school year.