ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the development of those information skills most essential in the social studies. The chapter focuses on some of the types of materials and assignments that teachers traditionally have found to be useful as well as on types of materials that have become available in this age of technology. Reading is the means, not the end, of dealing with social studies materials. Reading and writing have long been important and necessary skills for social studies. Obviously, students need to read to obtain information. On the other side of the coin, many kinds of social studies activities require writing. Students must often write to demonstrate that learning has occurred. Social studies is knowledge based, and that knowledge has been most readily communicated through print and the Internet. Students need reading and writing skills to succeed in social studies.
