I grew up as a total junkie for historical fiction (you’ve already checked out my bookshelf and I’ve loved hearing all the comments), but now I work on a project for my favorite audience: kindergarten through fourth grade learners.
There’s so much to be said for sparking interest in history at an early age. Of course, you set the groundwork of facts that students will recall later on as they study American history more deeply, and you begin developing the skills students will need to develop their own understandings of primary sources. But most important to me is that you set the attitudes they’ll have when they approach a new subject in history, or in their contemporary worlds. If we all started off thinking that history was full of exciting details, hairpin turns-of-events, and figures with “character,” who wouldn’t want to learn more?
Educational theorist Kieran Egan dives deeply into the role that narrative can play in learning content knowledge. When we read, many readers get emotionally involved with the characters in the pages—for reading biography or historical fiction, this gives us an entry point for empathizing with a historical topic that could seem dull if it was read in a textbook’s standoffish third person. For example, in The Flag Maker, the story of the Battle of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812 gets an extra boost of excitement by telling the story through the eyes of a young girl who helped her mother create the giant Star-Spangled Banner that flew above the fort.
I grew up as a total junkie for historical fiction (you’ve already checked out my bookshelf and I’ve loved hearing all the comments), but now I work on a project for my favorite audience: kindergarten through fourth grade learners.There’s so much to be said for sparking interest in history at an early age. Of course, you set the groundwork of facts that students will recall later on as they study American history more deeply, and you begin developing the skills students will need to develop their own understandings of primary sources. But most important to me is that you set the attitudes they’ll have when they approach a new subject in history, or in their contemporary worlds. If we all started off thinking that history was full of exciting details, hairpin turns-of-events, and figures with “character,” who wouldn’t want to learn more?Educational theorist Kieran Egan dives deeply into the role that narrative can play in learning content knowledge. When we read, many readers get emotionally involved with the characters in the pages—for reading biography or historical fiction, this gives us an entry point for empathizing with a historical topic that could seem dull if it was read in a textbook’s standoffish third person. For example, in The Flag Maker, the story of the Battle of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812 gets an extra boost of excitement by telling the story through the eyes of a young girl who helped her mother create the giant Star-Spangled Banner that flew above the fort.
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