Using Primary Sources with Document-Based Questions, Levels B & C

Annotated Teachers Edition, Level C (National Version)

This resource provides students with the skills and strategies necessary for interpreting, evaluating, and responding to information from historical documents, newspapers, speeches, political cartoons, and other primary-and secondary-source documents.

Level B (American History) explores primary-source documents from United States history, including the Declaration of Independence, political cartoons, advertisements, fine art, photographs, and much more.

Level C (World History) explores primary-source materials such as historical documents, photographs, letters, and newspaper accounts focused on world history.

Reading Level: 6-7

Interest Level: 6-12

Features and Benefits

• Helps students develop key critical-thinking, social studies, and test-taking skills while they explore a variety of primary-source documents.
• Encourages students to draw conclusions, recognize points of view, differentiate between fact and opinion, and compare and contrast with practice lessons.
• Enhances student comprehension with modeled lessons that include primary and secondary sources with background information.