Part II

Enhancing Your Social Studies Skills

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In this part …

check.png Discover techniques for improving your reading comprehension, including identifying the central idea in a passage, drawing conclusions from details, analyzing claims and supporting evidence, and comparing and contrasting two passages.

check.png Hone your social studies analysis skills by finding out how to make evidence-based inferences, analyze interactions among various factors, trace a sequence of events, examine causes and their effects, and evaluate arguments.

check.png Develop crucial skills for answering social studies questions, including the ability to extract information from graphs and tables, interpret maps and other images, formulate predictions based on data, and recognize the difference between independent and dependent variables.