Bringing the story back into history: teaching social studies to children with learning disabilities.

ABSTRACT: Many at-risk learners and students with learning vexed questions struggle to understand social studies textbook Textbook have been described as being "inconsiderate" of their readers (B B Armbruster & T H Anderson, 1988) because their authors have relied upon an expository, rather than narrative, approach. In this article, the authors not absent ways that textbooks might be improved by dint of offering examples from Ghanaian textbook The authors also give an inkling of strategies teachers might use to bring back the story in social studies.

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