ConceptLinks® Social Studies

Now the instructional approach educators have appreciated so much in the ConceptLinks® Science Modules is available for social studies!

• Build foundational concepts students need for all areas of social studies
• Support differentiated instruction
• Integrate comprehension strategies, academic vocabulary, and language skills with standards-based social studies content
• Improve writing and oral language fluency
• Technology tools for customizing instruction—including resources to support state and regional studies—and for monitoring students’ progress

Aligned with the New NCSS Standards!

Connect to Literacy™

Connect to Literacy™ provides explicit instruction for essential reading skills and teaches students to make connections between these skills and related reading strategies, language skills, graphic aids, writing, and their own lives.

• Short nonfiction books focus on the skills and strategies needed for critical thinking and strategic reading.
• Students learn to connect targeted reading skills to reading strategies, language skills, graphic aids, and writing.
• High-interest science and social studies topics are motivating to all students and promote interest in content area reading.
• Each skill and strategy pair is presented through four leveled Student Books, providing maximum flexibility and supporting differentiated instruction.
• Student Books can be read in one sitting to support efficient, focused instruction and give all students the experience of reading whole texts.

ResourceLinks Website

Supporting all 20 ConceptLinks® Science and Social Studies Modules, the ResourceLinks Website offers online resources to extend and customize instruction including:

• Hundreds of downloadable free-use images related to key module concepts and targeted skills
• Graphic organizers and other visual aids
• Audio recordings of the Student Books and Newcomer Lessons
• Downloadable version of the Teacher’s Guide
• E-masters with activities to support instruction of key concepts and skills
• Comprehensive assessment tools for monitoring students’ progress: module pre- and posttest, end-of book tests, comprehension strategy assessment, language assessments
• The ResourceLinks student side offers students access to images, graphic organizers, audio recordings, and computer-scored online assessments