Lesson 5 Gale
Virtual Ref. Library
1. From the list of Gale titles I chose the World War II
Background to war. Both World Wars have been hot topics this year for 4-5th
graders and while this book is not specifically aimed to students, t his book
was easy enough to read and succinct enough to get the point across. The photos
could easily be counted as primary sources for Common core standards. Other
books in the series on other historical times would be similarly useful for
Social studies either as introductions or wrap-ups for each subject.
2. I searched women in history, as this was a topic for Feb.
for 5th grade. There were a wide variety of subjects and sources. I
chose Women and the Constitution. The read aloud feature was easy to listen to,
less automated sounding that the one on World book, and using more inflection.
The one on World book often mispronounces words like live, using a short I
rather than long for certain sentences.
Hi, AmyD! Both WorldBook & Gale use computerized read-aloud. The quality is not as good as what you have in audio books that have actual people reading the book. However, that would be cost-prohibitive for resources such as these. I'm glad you found useful stuff here. There's a lot of good social studies material for your students & staff! Thanks for your comments.
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