This site provides informational reading resources in American, U.S. social studies from the pre-colonial period up to the Civil War. The primary objective of this material will be to expand content-specific vocabulary and to develop reading comprehension in social studies.

Reading, learning, and discovering our past can be a fascinating adventure. I hope you and those you work with can enjoy it as much as I do.

A print format of these units can be found at the Teachers Pay Teachers web site. Generally, the individual lessons contain just the reading text, related vocabulary, and assessment questions. Units contain each of the related, simplified, lesson packages and additional resources such as vocabulary activities, writing extensions, and other critical-thinking skills.

Background:
I began my career in the classroom as a reading, language arts, and social studies teacher. Since those days I have worked in the instructional software industry as a consultant, implementation manager, and a curriculum development specialist and manager. More recently, I taught English as a Second Language (ESL).

Currently:
I am teaching, full-time, adult-education classes in math, language arts, reading, social studies, and science for students that are working to get high-school equivalency diplomas. I also teach one ESL class. It is very rewarding for me to teach them. The lion-share of the rest of my time I try to work around my house. I enjoy working in the yard and making repairs and improvements around the place. The azalea blooms, included here, we got this past April. It was the best season of blooms since I transplanted them a few years. The stumps are something my wife wanted for the front porch. They came from some trees we cut down in December, trees that had overgrown their space out back. One of the trees was over 140 feet tall. I also still work in a little time for R-SSS research and development.

Reading resources

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