Resource of the Month: “Primary Source Readers”

The Phoebe Apperson Hearst Learning Center for Teachers opened in the spring of 2007, and since then our Education Center Manager, Diana Cordray, has worked hard to acquire every resource available for teaching about George Washington and the Revolutionary Era. The Learning Center for Teachers is open daily and is a place for teachers to review curriculum kits, books, and DVDs before purchasing, use the scholarly version of the Digital Papers of George Washington for free, and create a Resource Packet of teaching materials about George Washington and Mount Vernon to take back to the classroom. Each month, Diana will review a new teaching resource in order to introduce teachers to the many wonderful materials that can bring Mount Vernon to the classroom. And now for Diana’s review….

The Phoebe Apperson Hearst Learning Center for Teachers is fortunate to have educational materials from Teacher Created Materials. One item that is exceptionally beneficial to classrooms is the Primary Source Readers kit. Winner of the 2005 Golden Lamp Award from the Association of Educational Publishers, each kit contains: 6 copies of 16 content rich 24 page readers; lesson plans for each reader; teacher resource CD; and, 16 overheads.

The readers are content rich and complement social studies and language arts curricula. Each lesson is based on the National Council for the Social Studies and language arts standards serving as a crucial bridge between reading and writing and content-area material and the books are written at two reading levels for differentiated instruction. If you are looking for an exciting way to bring history into your classroom, try the Primary Source Readers from Teacher Created Materials.

We would also like to take this opportunity to thank Teacher Created Materials for the wonderful materials they generously gave to all teachers who attended our George Washington Teachers’ Institute.

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