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Healthy Hometown Heroes

Price: $2.99, format: 7 page PDF, grades: 3,4,5,6,7,8

Heroes are everywhere - even in your own back yard. Get involved in your local community by searching out a hometown hero to interview and honor in paragraph. What better way to recognize the people who contribute daily to making your hometown a better place to live. Click onto the websites included in this issue to see where this activity has taken other young writers - including a trip to the White House!

In this issue students will:

• Learn the history of the Hometown Hero Writing idea
• Find out how to enter
• Use the newspaper to locate main idea and summarize articles
• Discover details about the contest, including guide and past winners, using web links