Teaching Social Studies in Language Immersion Contexts: Pedagogy and Methods for Integrating Content Target Acquisition

Teaching Social Studies in Language Immersion Contexts is the essential resource for PreK-8 educators navigating the intersection of language and content learning to meet the needs of our growing bilingual and immersion student population. Grounded in research and built for the classroom, this book offers an inquiry-based framework for integrating culturally and linguistically responsive strategies into any immersion setting.From biliteracy strategies and primary source analysis to differentiation and assessment, expert contributors provide classroom-ready instructional sequences for teaching social studies in Arabic, Chinese, French, Korean, and Spanish. Each chapter equips teachers with the theory, strategies, and resources needed to design engaging, student-centered learning experiences.Through a celebration of bilingualism's cognitive, economic, cultural, and social power in a global society, this book empowers educators to leverage students' full linguistic strengths, making language a gateway to deeper, more meaningful social studies learning.

Pagina's: 148, Paperback, National Council for the Social Studies