1.) Elicit, listen to, notice and respond to students’ thinking, particularly how students process is written and
visual texts and think about social studies content
2.) Find, select, and work with social studies resources to create representations of social studies content
that reflect the integrity of the disciplines
3.) Use backward design to plan investigations (a lesson and a sequence of lessons) that give students
the opportunity to engage in inquiry and the support to develop their social studies thinking, reading,
and writing practices (including defining learning goals, instructional sequencing, assessment,
differentiation based on learners’ needs and background.
