Student Prints : Educators' Guide to Pawprints Literacy Plus - the Innovative Standards-Based Literacy and Environmental Program

Companion curriculum guide to Pawprints,” the amazon.com bestselling book with short vignettes about animals and the outdoors by Literacy Plus Foundation founder Ina Hillebrandt. Great for grades 1-8. Easily adapts to high school and ESL. Teachers applaud the exercises outlined in The Student Prints as a great alternative to ‘drill and kill!’” Providing California literacy and national science standards-based activities, "Student Prints" step-by-step lesson plans take educators through literacy skill builders for a whole semester, with extensions for up to a year. Excellent for building self-esteem and analytical thinking skills. Linked to the offbeat, light notes in "Pawprints," by Ina, the lessons stimulates students (and their teachers) to want to read, speak and to write creatively, from the heart. Activities are multi-purpose, combining life science with community service and anger management, as well as literacy. For use in the classroom, after-school enrichment, or outdoors.Hillebrandt, Ina S. is the author of 'Student Prints : Educators' Guide to Pawprints Literacy Plus - the Innovative Standards-Based Literacy and Environmental Program', published 2001 under ISBN 9781880882030 and ISBN 1880882035.