Building both historical knowledge and literacy skills requires that student wrestle with text and apply inquiry and analysis to understand the continuity and change that applies to a wide variety of the concepts studies in history class. This strategy assists students in doing that by removing (or ‘whiting out’) context clues from text/images and asking students to uncover context by sorting out the meaning of words and phrases; integrating multiple sources of information; determining main ideas; and citing textual evidence.
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