Studies examining geography instruction have found that integrating reading and geographic learning can improve reading comprehension, particularly for English Language Learners, because geographic tasks often require students to interpret written descriptions of places, environments, and relationships, build background knowledge, and make connections between text and spatial representations - skills that reinforce literacy development. For example, research on GeoLiteracy programs in elementary and middle school classrooms indicates that geography-based learning can help maintain or improve students’ reading comprehension outcomes, showing that geography education and literacy support each other in meaningful ways.
In preparing instructional resources, there are from time to time, aspects of those materials that ultimately go unused. In the linked storymap below, we have recombined some of those supplemental resources that support reading in world geography, human geography, and Earth science. The storymap includes about 90 thematic word games, 45 vocabulary lists, and more.
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