Download or read book TimeWise American History Timeline written by Mashy Frankl and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The visual TimeWise American History Timeline (student size), was developed as part of the TimeWise Cross-Curricular Literacy Program, which places a strong emphasis on building and activating background knowledge. The TimeWise Program was created to foster connections between literacy, history, and science so that students acquire a new depth of understanding. The TimeWise Timeline provides a visual scene for each time period in American History. Running parallel to the history section, is a section on major inventions/ technological advances that affected way of life. This student size timeline was created as a reference tool for students to use in conjunction with the classroom size TimeWise Timeline. With the combined use of the TimeWise visual American History Timeline, picture vocabulary cards, and the valuable assistance of the teacher's guide, teaching literacy takes on new meaning.