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2018
Volume 114, Issue 4
  • ISSN: 0013-8274
  • E-ISSN: 2161-8895

Abstract

Using state standards in social studies / history and narrative nonfiction, teachers and their students are able to use ELA skills to study the evolution of issues over time, instead of avoiding controversial issues.

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