Readingtolearn2. Improving Reading Skills in the Social Studies Classroom, Teaching Today, Glencoe Online. For many social studies teachers, helping students develop reading skills is a low priority—nice to do if there's time, but not necessary.
After all, there's scarcely time to meet the multitude of state-mandated subject-area learning objectives. Why add reading instruction to the list? Reading Strategies for Social Studies. History Globe. In 1606, some 105 adventurers set off from England to try and establish the first permanent English colony in the New World.
They settled in what is now the state of Virginia and called their colony first James Fort, and then James Towne, in honor of James I, the King of England. The early years of the colony were nearly a total disaster.