Virginia Studies Weekly

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Detailed Description:
Virginia Studies Weekly now comes in 28 colorful weekly units that look and feel like real newspapers. The units arrive in your mailbox in four quarterly shipments, each shipment containing seven weekly curriculum newspapers.

Designed for the fourth-grader, this newspaper is educational standards-based, and covers 96% of Virginia state standards for social studies!

Each student’s weekly newspaper contains a social studies lesson, a current event, or connection article, that relates to the social studies content being presented, an article describing a geographical region of Virginia, a biographical spotlight of a prominent Virginia citizen, an article on Virginia wildlife, ideas and instructions for fun arts and crafts projects, puzzles and games, a comic strip, and much more!

Your subscription of 10 or more copies includes a teacher supplement for each weekly newspaper. Each teacher supplement contains discussion questions, answers to crossword puzzles and other activities, a weekly assessment tool, and more.

As a bonus, any subscription to Virginia Studies Weekly includes four quarterly issues of American Legacy Times, a roundup of national and world current events, designed especially with your students in mind! This bonus publication will be especially helpful in tracking the 2008 presidential election with your students.

Virginia Studies Weekly is an ideal tool to help students practice skills in non-fiction reading and comprehension in preparation for Virginia state testing. Virginia Studies Weekly is also an ideal social studies teaching tool for homeschoolers!

2008-2009 Prices:
1 Student: $24.95  
2-9 Students: $9.50  
10 or more Students: $4.75