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For seven years, Hollister Kids’ “Living Black History” supplement has been bringing students Black History Month lessons that are fresher and more up to date than the latest textbooks. This year, this 16-page teaching package has been updated with new features and lessons on the nation’s African American Museum, Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! fitness campaign, efforts to reinvestigate civil rights “cold cases,” Condoleezza Rice’s career, Henry Louis Gates’ web magazine The Root, the Coretta Scott King Awards for African American authors and attitudes about African American opportunities in sports. This proven current events supplement may be delivered in print, in e-Edition format or as a download from your NIE website (if password protected). Pricing is $345, $605, $865 by circulation.

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Teaching Black History with Your E-Edition
Many students are now learning about Black History with e-Editions, and to help students and teachers make the most of this resource, Hollister Kids is offering this dynamic Teacher Guide. This turnkey package is ready to go with how-to lessons on e-Edition technology and themed e-Edition activities that explore Black History topics and issues. All activities and activity sheets in this 48-page guide are written to state and national education standards. This 8.5 by 11 guide can be e-mailed to teachers as a pdf, offered as a pulldown on your e-Edition site, made available as a download or delivered on CD.

Black History Activity Guide
The Black History Activity Guide offers activity sheets for every school day of Black History month in February — and more. These 8.5 by 11 lessons can be offered as a package from your website, delivered as a printed booklet or made available daily as a Black History Month bonus to get teachers and families visiting your NIE website again and again. Activities use all the content of your newspaper, e-Edition or news website.

Pricing for stand-alone purchases:

You may also buy either of the “bonus” materials individually at Hollister’s standard prices.

Teaching Black History with Your E-Edition: $325, $475, $625 by circulation.

Black History Activity Guide: $250, $350, $450 by circulation.

E-Edition Skill Builders for 2012

Teaching Reading with Your E-Edition
Reading is the skill that will help students all through life. And more and more, reading electronically will be the skill most valuable of all. With “Teaching Reading With Your e-Edition,” Hollister Kids has created an instruction package that effectively combines core literacy instruction with the information technology skills that students will need in the future. In 19 themed units, it uses current events and pop culture to hold students’ attention, while covering everything from reading and comprehension strategies, to critical thinking, to ways to build vocabulary. It offers activities that explore instruction techniques such as Read, Wonder and Learn and SQ3R, shows students how to effectively read for information and demonstrates the value of making predictions, sequencing and examining cause and effect. It covers such essential literacy building blocks as parts of speech, root words, signal words and grammar, but also teaches the value of reading for pleasure. Pleasure reading is emphasized by individual units showing how e-Editions can be the place to go to Read About Entertainment, Read About Sports, Read About Animals, Read About Writers, Read to Understand People and Read to Understand Yourself. All activities are written to state and national education standards. This 8.5 by 11 guide can be emailed to teachers as a pdf, offered as a pulldown on your e-Edition site, made available as a download or delivered on CD. Pricing by circulation: $325, $475, $625.

Teaching Writing Skills with Your E-Edition
Like the rest of the world, newspapers are changing the ways they deliver information. “Teaching Writing Skills with Your e-Edition” introduces students to the electronic features of e-Editions, while teaching them how to build the skills that will make them better at expository, persuasive and other forms of writing. This 44-page guide is packed with activities and activity sheets, and all are written to state and national education standards. This 8.5 by 11 guide can be e-mailed to teachers as a pdf, offered as a pulldown on your e-Edition site, made available as a download or delivered on CD.

Science & Biology for E-Editions
This e-Edition Teacher Guide has nearly 100 activities that use the e-Edition to examine how science and biology make news. Topics in this Super Size Teacher Guide include molecules, cells, genetics, evolution, organisms, environments, habitats, wildlife and populations. Each activity is followed by a reference line explaining the education standards or benchmarks addressed. Students who use this curriculum will come away with a greater understanding of life on Earth — and a greater appreciation of your e-Edition! A customized version of this e-Edition Teacher Guide is available for Earth Day under the title “Earth Day Science & Biology for e-Editions.”

News Bytes for E-Editions
Electronic e-Editions contain everything print newspapers have — distinct sections, classified and display advertising, photos and graphics — but with the convenience of navigating through home and school computers. The weekly feature “NewsBytes for e-Editions” provides fresh content every week for using e-Editions in creative and effective ways. This feature is written live each week off the news and the school calendar. Each week it includes three separate five-activity sets of activities tiered for Elementary, Middle and High School. One activity in each age group each week explores the technology of e-Editions. All activities are written to state and national academic or technology standards, and the 8.5-by-11 format can be easily emailed or downloaded. Pricing by circulation: $25, $45, $65 per week.