Our friends at the Knowledge Matters Campaign are now focusing on history instruction. As we know, social studies instruction in the early grades is a key to literacy. The “History Matters” campaign is aimed at making that more widely understood. In their most recent blog post, Amy Holbrook makes the case for dedicated history instruction in the early grades. We couldn’t agree more!

“Digging History Uut of the Dustbin: A Literacy-First Approach for Elementary Classrooms”