Powerful Pairings Summer Institute
Powerful Pairings Summer Institute
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Explore exciting primary sources from the Library of Congress paired with the adventure of narrative nonfiction Children's Books!
Friddell, Claudia, and Stacy Innerst. 2020. Saving Lady Liberty : Joseph Pulitzer’s Fight for the Statue of Liberty. New York: Calkins Creek, An Imprint Of Boyds Mills & Kane.
Pedestal for Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty on Bedloe's Island
Pedestal for Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty on Bedloe's Island, New York Harbor and insert of head and shoulder portrait of Bartholdi. , 1885. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/99614265/ .
What is Powerful Pairings?
Powerful Pairings is the work of Kelley Brown, Claudia Friddell and Laurie Risler in helping educators match primary sources with nonfiction narrative children's books as a method for teaching history, inquiry, writing and research. Through professional development, collaboration and reflective implementation educators work to find primary sources that pair with selected nonfiction stories to teach history, writing and research. Powerful Pairings is sponsored in part by the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Eastern Region Program, coordinated by Waynesburg University.
Why Powerful Pairings?
Why Powerful Pairings?
Primary sources increase student engagement by introducing the mysteries of the past without giving away the answers. When used with children's narrative nonfiction, students can practice the skills of historians, authors and investigators while learning about the past. Explore the lesson, strategy and research resources below to learn about how to pair and use primary sources and narrative nonfiction in K-12 classrooms or homeschooling!
Primary sources increase student engagement by introducing the mysteries of the past without giving away the answers. When used with children's narrative nonfiction, students can practice the skills of historians, authors and investigators while learning about the past. Explore the lesson, strategy and research resources below to learn about how to pair and use primary sources and narrative nonfiction in K-12 classrooms or homeschooling!
Check out our showcased strategies!
Bookending
Bookending
Before and After Reading Book
Before and After Reading Book
Portioning the Source
Portioning the Source
Zoom-in and Quadrant Images
Zoom-in and Quadrant Images
Question Formulation Technique (QFT)
Question Formulation Technique (QFT)
Generate, Improve and Prioritize Questions
Generate, Improve and Prioritize Questions
Circle of Viewpoints
Circle of Viewpoints
Analyze Images from Multiple Perspectives
Analyze Images from Multiple Perspectives
Meet the Powerful Pairings Team!
Claudia Friddell
Claudia Friddell
Before becoming a narrative nonfiction children’s author, Claudia Friddell worked with children as a family therapist, school counselor, and an elementary teacher for 20 years. When she’s not researching and writing true stories from long ago, she likes sharing her books with students, educators, and history buffs.
Laurie Risler
Laurie Risler
Laurie Risler is an Instructor in the Education Department at Westfield State University where she has been teaching since 2012. Prior to working with pre-service teachers, Laurie was an elementary school teacher and special educator. Risler and Brown created History's Mysteries in 2019 which has now become Private i History Detectives in the iCivics curriculum suite.
Kelley Brown
Kelley Brown
Kelley Brown is a teacher and instructional coach at Easthampton High School where she has taught for the last 25 years. She is also a curriculum and professional development consultant and a proud We the People teacher! Brown and Risler created History's Mysteries in 2019 which has now become Private i History Detectives in the iCivics curriculum suite.
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