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Digital Resources
- Support small- and whole- group instruction with an emphasis on interactive student engagement, integrated technology, and project-based learning opportunities.
- Enhance and support instruction with audio files of each book to model fluent reading.
- Dive deeper into content and support blended learning with interactive eBooks, student activities, and additional digital resources for easy use in distanced-, hybrid-, or in-person learning.
Lesson Plans
- Each kit comes with easy-to-use and comprehensive lesson plans:
- Save teachers time with fact-checked, historically accurate content aligned to the 2025 West Virginia College and College Readiness standards.
- Plans feature ideas to extend to citizenship, encourage active public service among students, and develop civic and democratic values as students become well-rounded citizens.
- Embedded differentiation tips to support English language learners and their language acquisition are included.
- Lessons seamlessly integrate social studies instruction into the ELA block with everything needed to support instruction and the flexibility of multiple instructional strategies.
Management Guide
Facilitate implementation with a standards alignment, a scope and sequence, and pacing plans to make teacher use streamlined and user-friendly.
Content-Area Texts
- Cultivate students’ curiosity about historical regional events with dynamic primary source readers and leveled reader’s theater scripts.
- Build literacy skills and content-area knowledge.
- Embedded primary sources, high-interest content, and visually appealing layouts to cultivate student's curiosity about history.
- Examine history through multiple perspectives and boost literacy skills while focusing on history, geography, economics, and civics topics.
- Integrate with small-group instruction during social studies or within a Balanced Literacy approach. Feature Reader's Theater scripts with differentiated roles so teachers can assign roles based on student's reading levels, which allows all students to participate in the same activity for an inclusive classroom.
Primary Sources
Primary sources breathe life into history and capture students' curiosity about past events.
- Provide students with a deeper and more comprehensive view of local historical events through maps, letters, photographs, political cartoons, and more! Strengthen inquiry-based learning and critical thinking through the analysis of primary sources to make real-life connections to the past.
- Help students build their understanding of historical events by evaluating multiple perspectives to foster awareness, tolerance, and compassion, and employ decision-making skills.
- Support and encourage authentic discourse in the classroom to challenge students to be attentive listeners and courteous responders.
Student Inquiry
The Student Inquiry Handbook (full color; standards-aligned) provides opportunities for meaningful application of literacy skills and social studies concepts through engaging activities.
Student Engagement
- Develops critical-thinking and problem-solving skills. Encourages inquiry-based learning through discussion questions, document-based assessments, and primary source analysis activities to make history come alive./li>
- Extension activities and ideas to develop citizenship and inspire students to be civic-minded beyond the classroom.
- Develop social studies content knowledge and build literacy skills with resources that cultivate curiosity about civics, geography, history, and economics, helping students understand the world around them and their connection to it.
Product items
Exploring Social Studies: West Virginia: Kindergarten, 2nd Edition
Build literacy skills and social studies content-area literacy while fostering students' curiosity about the world around them. This non-textbook curriculum aligns to 2025 West Virginia College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Social Studies and ELA.
Item Number:151954
ISBN:9798765965009
Extra Info:2nd Edition
Exploring Social Studies: West Virginia: Student Inquiry Handbook, Grade K
This inquiry-based handbook builds social studies knowledge across four strands with activities aligned with the 2025 West Virginia College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Social Studies and ELA.
Item Number:151978
ISBN:9798765965764
Exploring Social Studies: West Virginia: First Grade, 2nd Edition
Build literacy skills and social studies content-area literacy while fostering students' curiosity about the world around them. This non-textbook curriculum aligns to 2025 West Virginia College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Social Studies and ELA.
Item Number:151955
ISBN:9798765965016
Extra Info:2nd Edition
Exploring Social Studies: West Virginia: Student Inquiry Handbook, Grade 1
This inquiry-based handbook builds social studies knowledge across four strands with activities aligned with the 2025 West Virginia College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Social Studies and ELA.
Item Number:151979
ISBN:9798765965788
Exploring Social Studies: West Virginia: Second Grade, 2nd Edition
Build literacy skills and social studies content-area literacy while fostering students' curiosity about the world around them. This non-textbook curriculum aligns to 2025 West Virginia College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Social Studies and ELA.
Item Number:151956
ISBN:9798765965030
Extra Info:2nd Edition
Exploring Social Studies: West Virginia: Student Inquiry Handbook, Grade 2
This inquiry-based handbook builds social studies knowledge across four strands with activities aligned with the 2025 West Virginia College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Social Studies and ELA.
Item Number:151980
ISBN:9798765965795
Exploring Social Studies: West Virginia: Third Grade, 2nd Edition
Build literacy skills and social studies content-area literacy while fostering students' curiosity about the world around them. This non-textbook curriculum aligns to 2025 West Virginia College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Social Studies and ELA.
Item Number:151957
ISBN:9798765965047
Extra Info:2nd Edition
Exploring Social Studies: West Virginia: Student Inquiry Handbook, Grade 3
This inquiry-based handbook builds social studies knowledge across four strands with activities aligned with the 2025 West Virginia College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Social Studies and ELA.
Item Number:151981
ISBN:9798765965801
Exploring Social Studies: West Virginia: Fourth Grade, 2nd Edition
Build literacy skills and social studies content-area literacy while fostering students' curiosity about the world around them. This non-textbook curriculum aligns to 2025 West Virginia College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Social Studies and ELA.
Item Number:151958
ISBN:9798765965054
Extra Info:2nd Edition
Exploring Social Studies: West Virginia: Student Inquiry Handbook, Grade 4
This inquiry-based handbook builds social studies knowledge across four strands with activities aligned with the 2025 West Virginia College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Social Studies and ELA.
Item Number:151982
ISBN:9798765965818
Exploring Social Studies: West Virginia: Fifth Grade, 2nd Edition
Build literacy skills and social studies content-area literacy while fostering students' curiosity about the world around them. This non-textbook curriculum aligns to 2025 West Virginia College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Social Studies and ELA.
Item Number:151959
ISBN:9798765965061
Extra Info:2nd Edition
Exploring Social Studies: West Virginia: Student Inquiry Handbook, Grade 5
This inquiry-based handbook builds social studies knowledge across four strands with activities aligned with the 2025 West Virginia College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Social Studies and ELA.
Item Number:151983
ISBN:9798765965825
Exploring Social Studies: West Virginia: Student Inquiry Handbook, Grade 6
This inquiry-based handbook builds social studies knowledge across four strands with activities aligned with the 2025 West Virginia College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Social Studies and ELA.
Item Number:151972
ISBN:9798765965580
Exploring Social Studies: West Virginia: Student Inquiry Handbook, Grade 7
This inquiry-based handbook builds social studies knowledge across four strands with activities aligned with the 2025 West Virginia College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Social Studies and ELA.
Item Number:151973
ISBN:9798765965597
Exploring Social Studies: West Virginia: Student Inquiry Handbook, Grade 8
This inquiry-based handbook builds social studies knowledge across four strands with activities aligned with the 2025 West Virginia College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Social Studies and ELA.
Item Number:151974
ISBN:9798765965603
Exploring Social Studies: West Virginia: Kindergarten, 2nd Edition
Build literacy skills and social studies content-area literacy while fostering students' curiosity about the world around them. This non-textbook curriculum aligns to 2025 West Virginia College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Social Studies and ELA.
Item Number:151954
ISBN:9798765965009
Extra Info:2nd Edition
Exploring Social Studies: West Virginia: First Grade, 2nd Edition
Build literacy skills and social studies content-area literacy while fostering students' curiosity about the world around them. This non-textbook curriculum aligns to 2025 West Virginia College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Social Studies and ELA.
Item Number:151955
ISBN:9798765965016
Extra Info:2nd Edition
Exploring Social Studies: West Virginia: Second Grade, 2nd Edition
Build literacy skills and social studies content-area literacy while fostering students' curiosity about the world around them. This non-textbook curriculum aligns to 2025 West Virginia College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Social Studies and ELA.
Item Number:151956
ISBN:9798765965030
Extra Info:2nd Edition
Exploring Social Studies: West Virginia: Third Grade, 2nd Edition
Build literacy skills and social studies content-area literacy while fostering students' curiosity about the world around them. This non-textbook curriculum aligns to 2025 West Virginia College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Social Studies and ELA.
Item Number:151957
ISBN:9798765965047
Extra Info:2nd Edition
Exploring Social Studies: West Virginia: Fourth Grade, 2nd Edition
Build literacy skills and social studies content-area literacy while fostering students' curiosity about the world around them. This non-textbook curriculum aligns to 2025 West Virginia College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Social Studies and ELA.
Item Number:151958
ISBN:9798765965054
Extra Info:2nd Edition
Exploring Social Studies: West Virginia: Fifth Grade, 2nd Edition
Build literacy skills and social studies content-area literacy while fostering students' curiosity about the world around them. This non-textbook curriculum aligns to 2025 West Virginia College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Social Studies and ELA.
Item Number:151959
ISBN:9798765965061
Extra Info:2nd Edition
Exploring Social Studies: West Virginia: Student Inquiry Handbook, Grade K
This inquiry-based handbook builds social studies knowledge across four strands with activities aligned with the 2025 West Virginia College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Social Studies and ELA.
Item Number:151978
ISBN:9798765965764
Exploring Social Studies: West Virginia: Student Inquiry Handbook, Grade 1
This inquiry-based handbook builds social studies knowledge across four strands with activities aligned with the 2025 West Virginia College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Social Studies and ELA.
Item Number:151979
ISBN:9798765965788
Exploring Social Studies: West Virginia: Student Inquiry Handbook, Grade 2
This inquiry-based handbook builds social studies knowledge across four strands with activities aligned with the 2025 West Virginia College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Social Studies and ELA.
Item Number:151980
ISBN:9798765965795
Exploring Social Studies: West Virginia: Student Inquiry Handbook, Grade 3
This inquiry-based handbook builds social studies knowledge across four strands with activities aligned with the 2025 West Virginia College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Social Studies and ELA.
Item Number:151981
ISBN:9798765965801
Exploring Social Studies: West Virginia: Student Inquiry Handbook, Grade 4
This inquiry-based handbook builds social studies knowledge across four strands with activities aligned with the 2025 West Virginia College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Social Studies and ELA.
Item Number:151982
ISBN:9798765965818
Exploring Social Studies: West Virginia: Student Inquiry Handbook, Grade 5
This inquiry-based handbook builds social studies knowledge across four strands with activities aligned with the 2025 West Virginia College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Social Studies and ELA.
Item Number:151983
ISBN:9798765965825
Exploring Social Studies: West Virginia: Student Inquiry Handbook, Grade 6
This inquiry-based handbook builds social studies knowledge across four strands with activities aligned with the 2025 West Virginia College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Social Studies and ELA.
Item Number:151972
ISBN:9798765965580
Exploring Social Studies: West Virginia: Student Inquiry Handbook, Grade 7
This inquiry-based handbook builds social studies knowledge across four strands with activities aligned with the 2025 West Virginia College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Social Studies and ELA.
Item Number:151973
ISBN:9798765965597
Exploring Social Studies: West Virginia: Student Inquiry Handbook, Grade 8
This inquiry-based handbook builds social studies knowledge across four strands with activities aligned with the 2025 West Virginia College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Social Studies and ELA.
Item Number:151974
ISBN:9798765965603