Each book in this series provides an easy-to-read anecdotal narrative laced with fascinating illustrations and vivid photos to engage students in history. Chapter-end reproducible activities include writing projects, authentic arts and crafts projects, and cross-curricular activities.
Each book contains 296 pages. HISTORY OF OUR WORLD focuses on building all readers’ fundamental social studies knowledge and skills in the context of a highly effective reading approach to social studies content. The text’s topical development, controlled readability, and engaging design motivate and support reluctant readers by establishing interest and building confidence.
At the same time, HISTORY OF OUR WORLD delivers an academically solid, standards-driven teaching tool that presents our world’s story in a comprehensible, authoritative, and appealing format. The complete program is available as one hardcover edition or divided into “The Ancient World” and “The Modern World” as softcover editions.
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Three proven approaches to the study of world history combine to deliver easily accessible content, skills, and understanding.- The standards-driven global approach: Steck-Vaughn’s History of Our World presents a narrative that is carefully and consistently balanced. Cultural characteristics, contributions, and achievements of both Western and non-Western civilizations are discussed in an objective style that emphasizes historical continuity and cultural interaction.
- The unique and effective reading approach: Steck-Vaughn’s History of Our World has been carefully developed to provide a reading approach to world history content. The Student Edition has been maintained at a 4th-grade reading level throughout and is designed for accessibility, visual clarity and appeal and manageability.
- The practical and instructional skills development approach: The History of Our World program develops a variety of social studies skills. Each skill is introduced in the Student Edition, taught in the Teacher’s Edition, and reinforced in the Classroom Resources Binder. The test includes many primary source excerpts and images as well as colorful maps, graphs and charts.
Volume I: The Ancient World Contents Include: Early Societies (beginnings to 600 B.C.), Vast Empires and World Religions (600 B.C. to 500 A.D.), Rise and Fall of Civilizations (500 to 1000) and Change and Growth Around the World (1000-1500)
Volume II: The Modern World Contents Include: Global Exchanges (1300-1800), Revolutions, New Nations and Growing Empires (1750-1914), Years of World Wars (1900-1945) and Into the 21st Century (1945-present)
Complete Program All of the contents from The Ancient World and The Modern World combined into the 592 page History of Our World hardcover textbook.
Teacher Editions Furnish teachers with a comprehensive tool for planning, teaching, extending, and assessing this world history program.
The side-margin notes provide a rich source of suggested teaching activities and assessment tools. They are organized under the headings Before Students Read, As Students Read, and After Students Read to enforce the reading approach to the program and provide a convenient framework for lesson planning.
The bottom-margin notes provide valuable supplemental information and optional activities for use at the teacher’s discretion such as Link to Prior Learning, The March of Time, The Story in History and The Big Picture, Then and Now, Home Connection, People in History, and Alternative Assessment.
