The Arkansas Rice Council, which represents the state’s rice farmers, has created a workbook specifically for Arkansas fourth-grade students. The workbook contains exercises, questions and information designed to help fourth graders prepare for standardized benchmark examinations, scheduled for April 17-20.

About 37,000 fourth-grade students in nearly 500 Arkansas schools received copies of the workbook.

The workbook, titled “Arkansas Rice AWESOME,” has sections on language arts, math, and social studies. All the information in the workbook is based on rice farming and the rice industry in Arkansas. It was developed with input from a panel of Arkansas elementary school teachers.