Read Kansas!

Read Kansas! is a curriculum of student reading cards and teacher lesson plans for primary, intermediate, middle, and high school grades. Each lesson addresses a Kansas history standard as well as a state reading and/or writing standard. The lessons contain from one to 15 reading cards and a teacher lesson plan.

	Read Kansas! is a work in progress for the Kansas Historical Society. Currently we have a number of lessons ready for purchase. This includes lessons at the primary (K-3), intermediate (4), and middle school (7) grades. The order form provides the list of lessons currently available for immediate purchase.
A sample Read Kansas! card from the first grade lesson Kansas Crops: From Seeds to Food. There are four cards in this lesson.

Through the generous support of the Kansas State Department of Education, with additional funding from the Kansas Health Foundation, a complete set of Read Kansas! lessons will be provided for free to every public school in Kansas. The primary and intermediate lessons, a total of 30 lessons, will be shipped to schools in time for the 2007-2008 school year. The school set will include one copy of the 18 primary and 12 intermediate lessons. The middle school lessons will come later. There will be a total of 40 middle school lessons. When they are finished a complete set again will be sent to every public school at no cost. In the meantime, copies will be available for sale as they are completed.

Browse by grade level to find benchmarks and indicators in the Kansas History Standards.

All Primary and Intermediate Read Kansas! card sets (K-4) are now available. You might need to reload or refresh these pages if you have accessed this site before October 11, 2007, in order to be able to see them.

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	Read Kansas! is a progressive model for teaching history. For years teachers have requested primary source materials to use in their classrooms. The "No Child Left Behind" federal reading and math initiative resulted in even less time to teach history. The Kansas Historical Society has met teachers' needs by creating lessons with a strong reading curriculum base that teach reading and Kansas history using primary and secondary source materials. The performance-based lessons engage students in critical thinking skills such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Students practice skills that will aid them throughout their lives while learning to read and study Kansas history.
The front page of the lesson plan for Kansas Crops: From Seeds to Food. Lesson plans contain reproducible worksheets.
You can download many of the Read Kansas! cards and lessons for free. There is one difference between the sets you buy and sets you download. The downloaded cards are available only in high-definition black-and-white copies, not in full color.