USA Studies Weekly - Explorers to the 1880s
Detailed Description:
USA Studies Weekly—Explorers to the 1880s comes in 24 colorful student newspapers that look and feel like real newspapers. These are shipped in four shipments, or quarters, each containing 6 weekly units of study in newspaper format.
Each weekly newspaper contains a social studies lesson on United States history, geography, culture, or economics; a current event that relates to the lesson being presented; a biographical spotlight featuring prominent historic and contemporary citizens; a crossword puzzle; think and review exercises; a comic strip of American Kids; websurfing links; and more.
An extended teacher edition is included with each subscription for ten or more copies. The teacher edition contains guided reading strategies, discussion questions, word wall words, words to know, literature links, language arts connections, math connections, ESE strategies, in-depth background articles on United States history, and much more.
Each classroom subscription of 20 or more copies also includes a mini-assessment workbook containing weekly mini-assessments, quarterly assessments, and tutorial assessments; and access to download a soft copy of all the assessments, blackline masters, graphic organizers, and much more.
USA Studies Weekly is an ideal tool to help students prepare with non-fiction reading and comprehension for state testing. It is also ideal for homeschool United States history and social studies.
This classroom newspaper is based on common social studies benchmarks related to the study of United States history. In 2005, after thorough evaluation, this publication was recommended by the Florida state adoption committee to be state adopted as a major classroom tool by the Florida State Department of Education. In addition to being adopted in Florida, the publication is also used by more than 39,000 students in 8 southeastern states.
2008-2009 Prices:
1 Student: $24.95
2-9 Students: $9.50
10 or more Students: $4.75