ALBA works with teachers in Social Studies, English Language Arts, and Spanish to design lesson plans based on compelling, accessible primary source documents—texts, images, audio—that will inspire student interest while meeting common core state standards in reading, writing, speaking & listening, and media skills. These include:
- Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source
- Cite textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources
- Identify author’s point of view or purpose
- Distinguish among fact, opinion, and reasoned judgment in text
- Support claims with logical reasoning and relevant data and evidence
- Write informative/explanatory texts
- Produce clear and coherent writing
- Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary
- Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions
- Delineate a speaker’s argument and specific claims, evaluating the soundness of the reasoning and sufficiency of the evidence
- Present claims and findings in a focused, coherent manner with relevant evidence
- Use technology to publish and to present relationships between information and ideas clearly
- Analyze the purpose and motives of information presented in diverse media and formats
- Integrate multimedia and visual displays into presentations to clarify information, strengthen evidence, and add interest