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~ Literacy Series ~
Building Academic Literacy Through History

Learning the history of something, whether it is a nation, a subject such as the Civil War, or a person like Susan B. Anthony, is not a passive experience. It is an activity that requires literacy, and for students who struggle in this regard, the History Project @ Fresno State offers the following strategies:

Building literacy through the standards: Planning, Instruction, and Assessment.
Functional grammar.
Argument and Evidence: Developing analytical writing skills.
Deconstructing text to gain historical meaning.
Functional linguistics: assisting teachers and students break apart their text to understand underlying meaning and ideas like causality and abstractions.
Intensive strategic reading for ELA classes.

This program is designed to provide teachers with the necessary tools to train students to reason, read and write with clarity and structure.

Questions? Contact Melissa Jordine at The History Project office, 278-5418, or email mjordine@csufresno.edu.