Concise Curriculum

Integrating the Standards: Social Studies, Reading, and Language Arts is a student workbook for upper elementary students. We currently have two upper elementary workbooks. Our workbooks are an entire course of study for social studies with reading and language arts skills throughout the book.

Ready-Made Lesson Plans!!!

Our workbooks provide a complete program, with no lesson plan time for the teacher/parent! All lesson plans are done for you! All directions and examples are given in the workbook. The student is given clear directions and examples, and the teacher/parent is there to guide the student and answer questions. The teacher/parent is relieved of hours of preparation time. A free answer key/teacher’s guide comes with each book.

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IThe 4th grade (upper elementary) topics include:

• The American Indians
• European exploration of the Americas
• Colonial America
• Establishment of colonies in America
• The American Revolution
• Key individuals in the American Revolution
• Articles of Confederation
• The Constitutional Convention
• The three branches of government
• The Bill of Rights
• The War of 1812
• The Louisiana Purchase
• The Lewis and Clark expedition
• Territorial expansion
• California Gold Rush
• New inventions in America
• Physical and man-made features in the United States
• The Declaration of Independence
• Process for making and enforcing the law in the U.S.
• Specialization and voluntary exchange
• Elements of a personal budget

The 5th grade (upper elementary) topics include:

• The causes, major events, and consequences of the Civil War
• Major battles and campaigns of the Civil War
• The roles of Civil War generals
• The Amendments to the Constitution
• Westward expansion
• The Spanish American War
• Famous people of the early 1900s
• World War I
• Cultural developments of the 1920s and 1930s
• America’s involvement in World War II
• How the U.S. sought to stop the spread of communism
• The Cuban Missile Crisis
• The Vietnam War
• The Civil Rights movement
• New technology in the world
• Peace in the Middle East
• How citizen’s rights are protected under the Constitution
• The Bill of Rights
• Economic activity in the United States

These student workbooks can be used as your entire course of study, or can be used to supplement your course of study. An entire year of social studies, language, and reading are all in one book!

Language skills include: parts of speech, verb usage, mechanics (capitalization, punctuation, spelling and usage) writing complete sentences, identifying sentence fragments, identifying types of sentences (simple, compound, complex) identifying kinds of sentences (declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory).

Reading skills include: reading comprehension (answering basic comprehension questions and answering higher level comprehension questions, also inference questions)
 
Research:
Research shows that children retain more when using an integrated curriculum. Children are also more engaged in the lesson when it is integrated. Children are able to recall more material and things start to “click” faster with an integrated approach. Instead of learning sentences about unknown people and places, the student can connect to important historical people and events.
For example:
Identify the nouns in the following sentences:

(the traditional textbook) Sally and Jane walked to the store.

(Concise Curriculum’s integrated workbook)
Eli Whitney invented a new machine called the cotton gin.

While the skill is still the same, our workbooks reinforce historical facts. Students are actually getting triple benefits (social studies, reading, and language arts) at one time.

Other benefits:
Students learn three content areas at one time when using the Integrating the Standards curriculum. Skills are no longer taught in isolation. Reading and language arts skills are constantly reinforced during the social studies time. Some students who have difficulty in reading and language arts get an extra “boost” during social studies time.

Coming Soon!!!! (July 2007)
Lower Elementary (2nd-3rd grade) Integrated Curriculum
2nd grade – Georgia studies (history of Georgia, geography, and basic concepts of government)
3rd grade – origins of democracy, an in depth study on Americans instrumental in ensuring the rights of others, foundations of government, and basic economic concepts

About Concise Curriculum:
The authors of Integrating the Standards: Social Studies, Reading, and Language Arts have over 35 years of experience in education.
Individual orders are accepted. To order call 404-732-4193 or print an order form and fax to: 770-631-3746

Mail your order to:
Concise Curriculum
112 Kenton Place
Peachtree City, GA 30269

Visit our website to see sample lessons from each book: www.concisecurriculum.org
 

 

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