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While Heartwood focuses on helping children become more caring, respectful, honest, and fair, it also supports efforts to raise student achievement. The program integrates easily with existing curriculums in reading, language arts, social studies, and science. All documents are PDF files and require Adobe® Reader®. Click here if you need to install Adobe® Reader® (free). National Standards
The Heartwood kits have been aligned to nationally
recognized academic standards in the core content areas.* Detailed
information showing how standards are addressed by each book and lesson card is
available for the national academic standards.
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*References National Council of Teachers of English (1996). Standards for the english language arts. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English. National Council for the Social Studies (1994). Expectations for excellence: curriculum standards for social studies. Washington, D.C.: National Council for the Social Studies. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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State Standards
State academic standards can be easily achieved through the quality literature and content-focused activities included with each kit.
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Related information
If information for your state is not yet available, please see Heartwood and communications standards for specific suggestions for Heartwood- based portfolio projects and writing assignments.
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Heartwood Supports National and State
Academic Standards