Source Squads is a collaborative learning framework for building historical literacy skills in groups.

Through Source Squads, students work in carefully designed groups of three to four learners.

Together, they interrogate a set of historical materials through sourcing, contextualizing, close reading, and corroborating.

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Through Source Squads, students assume specific roles to facilitate each step of the historical thinking process.

Learners are supported with prompts that ask students to annotate, discuss, and analyze while building disciplinary vocabulary, practicing skills, and engaging in academic dialogue.

Students assume roles in their groups to facilitate historical thinking.

In these “Source Squads,” each learner is given one of four Role Cards modeled after historical literacy skills: the Sourcer, Contextualizer, Close Reader, and Corroborator.

Each card contains prompts for the Squad to facilitate the annotation, discussion, and analysis of historical materials.

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