When I suggest to social studies teachers that they use history to teach analytical reading, they often look at me quizzically. They haven't been prepared to do so. Our children need to learn history. They need to know who they are and from where they've come. But it isn't easy to sell that idea.
Reading comes first.
Now that, I believe, is something we should consider. She has published articles in The American Educator, Education Digest, and The Wall Street Journal, and she has taught elementary, middle, and high school literature and composition.