Get your students ready for Election 2012
This teaching opportunity only comes once every four years, so capitalize on election fever with Weekly Reader Election Skills Books. Each title features a wide variety of activities and articles that connect the election to your curriculum.
- Age-appropriate nonfiction on important election concepts
- Reading comprehension questions
- Critical thinking discussion prompts
- Engaging election games and activities
- Maps, graphs, and charts with analysis questions
- Free access to our whiteboard-ready election website
Choose the workbook that's right for your class
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Grades K–1
With colorful pictures and text that's just right for early readers, this engaging skills book offers an interactive, fun way to learn all about the President, the candidates, and the White House.
Includes:- The President Is Our Leader
- Here Is the United States of America
- White House Pets
- Who Will Be Our Next President?
Grades 2–3
Help your second and third grade students understand the President's job and the election through which our democracy selects its leader.
Includes:- Who Can Be President?
- Meet the Candidates
- The President Has Many Jobs
- Get Ready to Vote!
Grades 4–6
Give students an understanding of the electoral process and every American's right and duty to vote.
Includes:- Seven Presidents Who Changed the World
- Behind the Scenes of a Campaign
- The Election Year from Start to Finish
- What Is the Electoral College?
Grades 7–10
Explore campaign strategies, election issues, and everything that's involved in the election process.
Includes:- Understanding the Electoral College
- The Political Parties
- Primer on Campaign Advertising
- The Election Cycle, from the Primaries to Election Day