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FREE Bonus Materials for Earth Day & Earth Month from Hollister Kids A Four-Pack of News Features for Print, e-Editions and Web sites Year after year, Earth Day provides one of the most effective opportunities to connect classroom learning to the newspaper. With environmental issues making news every day, Earth Day demonstrates to students that ecology is not just something to study in school, but something to live and learn by. To help NIE programs and teachers make this connection, Hollister Kids again is offering a four-part Earth Month series exploring environmental issues that are making news in local communities, states and the nation. Best of all, this four-pack is available FREE to any NIE program that has bought a Hollister Kids environmental supplement since the end of the last school year — or buys one before Earth Day April 22. Each feature includes a 500-word news story written from a kids' perspective, a response question that can be used as a discussion or writing prompt, and three activities exploring each feature’s topic with the newspaper, e-Editions or your newspaper Web site. This four-pack also can be purchased independently at the pricing of Hollister Kids’ award-winning current events feature “Newspaper PLUS.” Prices for the package are $120 for under 50,000 general circulation, $240 for 50,000-200,000, $360 for over 200,000. more information Supplements to choose from to get the FREE bonus materials include:
Hollister’s Primary Election Supplement Exciting Materials for North Carolina, Indiana, West Virginia, Nebraska, Kentucky, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, South Dakota and Hawaii - and $$$ Savings, Too. The 2008 presidential primaries are the most exciting ever, with the competition extending beyond the Super Tuesday voting to the very last primaries. To help your NIE program take advantage of this unprecedented teaching opportunity, Hollister Kids has created a special 16-page supplement explaining the primary elections and caucuses. Samples of the supplement are now available, and to make it affordable for tight budgets, we are offering it at 33 PERCENT OFF our usual supplement pricing. Pricing will be: $230 for papers under 50,000, $400 for papers 50,000-200,000; $575 for papers over 200,000. The 16-page supplement on the “Election Primaries & Caucuses 2008” explores and explains the primary and caucus process, provides capsule profiles of the Democrats and Republicans running for president, sums up their issues and gives students a “Primary Scorecard” for tracking the presidential race. It also looks at the party system and campaign issues ranging from advertising to finance to image-making and polling. more information Team Up with Baseball! Baseball is about to start a new season, and now's the time to capitalize on baseball enthusiasm. This popular supplement shows how baseball is a game that brings people together and how it unites people of different nations, races and ethnic backgrounds. It shows how baseball unites people of different skills and unites fans as a community. It shows how baseball can teach the strengths of diversity and the values of teamwork. It shows how baseball can teach people how to be responsible, the rewards of working hard and the importance of learning in everything we do. This special section also shows students how baseball connects with the history of our nation, how statistics teach math, curve balls teach science and team names teach geography. Customize this tab for your local team with photos and local text and you will have a championship program. Available in versions for both Major League and Minor League markets. more information Get Kids Ready for State Testing! For years, Hollister Kids’ “Study Skills” supplement has been one of our most popular and effective. Now, in response to requests for material for state testing, we have put together a new supplement to further help students do their best. This new edition extends the lessons of the original “Study Skills” with new sections on learning styles, test-taking strategies and multiple intelligences. And the dynamic design and funky illustrations are guaranteed to be a hit with today’s multi-media students! Hollister’s Study Skills Teacher Guide is also available to provide additional newspaper activities for use with this supplement or with your e-edition. more information
Wyland Water Supplements Teach About Wetlands, Rivers, Lakes, Oceans & Estuaries Whale murals by the artist known as Wyland have brought attention to oceans and marine life all over the world. Now the Wyland Foundation has teamed with Hollister Kids to create five NIE supplements exploring water issues faced by communities across the nation. Each supplement addresses the challenges facing a different water habitat: Wetlands, Rivers, Lakes, Oceans and Estuaries. And each centerspread is a handsome full-color Wyland illustration focusing on water issues. Use-the-newspaper activities connect the topics covered to environmental issues making news every day. NIE programs can buy the supplements as a package or purchase the supplements individually. more information on Estuaries more information on Lakes more information on Oceans more information on Rivers more information on Wetlands |
