Deaf History, Digital Technology, and Content-Area Literacy: Instructional Strategies for Secondary Classrooms

This article presents strategies for locating and using digitally available primary source documents in the fields of Deaf history and Deaf cultural studies for instruction in a Deaf history class, traditional history/social studies class, or language arts class in lessons that incorporate the Common Core State Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies. An earlier version of this content was presented at the 2014 Summer Literacy Institute at the Learning Center for the Deaf, sponsored by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.