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Grade Range: K - 11
All history can seem "ancient" unless you connect to it personally. Understand the American colonies and American Revolution by choosing a book to help you connect with the times. This list includes fiction and nonfiction books about life in the American colonies and during the American Revolution as well as books about leaders and major locations of this historic period. CurriConnects thematic book lists include ISBN numbers for ordering or searching, interest grade levels, ESL levels and Lexiles’’’’’’® to match student independent reading levels to challenge, not frustrate. For more on text complexity and Lexiles’’’’’®, see <a href="/single.cfm?id=9704">this information</a> from the Lexile Framework. Don’t miss other <a href="/content/curriconnects.cfm">CurriConnects themes</a> being added regularly. If your library does not have the books, try interlibrary loan!
In the Classroom
Make history more real during your unit on Colonial America and/or the Revolution. Have students choose a book from this list and present their impressions from it in the form of a blog post from the times. If you are beginning the process of integrating technology, have students create blogs sharing their learning and understanding using Tumblr, <a href="/single.cfm?id=12747">reviewed here</a>. Collect the links to all the student posts on your class web page for students to browse and gather a "human" experience of history.
At Home
Looking for good books to support your young historian? Or maybe your student is reluctant to study history. Use this list to help him/her find a book at your local library (or check their online catalog for possible interlibrary loans). Get him/her hooked on the American colonial experience or Revolution through one story. Consider reading one together as a family.
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