Strategies for developing close reading skills here are eight close reading strategies that can be used by students in any content area pick a single paragraph from a larger context and have students do a deep dive into that reading by utilizing some of the following ideas. Reading strategies for social studies reading and writing strategies amazonca macceca stephanie books. However within the common core framework social studies teachers are expected to integrate reading and writing skills in addition it can be difficult to know which skills students need the good news is many social studies teachers already use some of the most important reading skills adding reading to your social studies lessons may not be as difficult as it may seem. Social studies instruction that is solely text based tends to emphasize learning about history while rich inquiry based instruction emphasizes learning how to think like a historian to think like a historian your students need to be able to evaluate corroborate and synthesize multiple often conflicting sources