Scholastic News is a nonfiction weekly reader tailored for students on each grade level, including English language learners. My goal is to inspire a love of learning throughout the year with engaging standards-based content in social studies, science, and social development. Students will have fun learning about real-world current events, while building background knowledge and improving vocabulary skills. This subscription includes short videos, hands-on extension activities, digital resources, and so much more! 

Our current social studies curriculum, Studies Weekly, is a good resource for learning about historical figures, events, and community. However, it is very limited on extension activities and the consumables are not the best. They tear easily and the ink comes off on our hands. Scholastic News is more like a magazine with bright, vivid, non-fiction photos. The extension activities are not age-appropriate. They aren't challenging and they lack rigor at times. In addition, the digital component of Studies Weekly is not always first grader friendly. Whereas, Scholastic News is.

Our first graders love to learn! What better way to engage them than by bringing the world into our classrooms? Scholastic News helps boost reading comprehension and student achievement by aligning lessons to TEKS-based instructional goals and standards. With a focus on the Science of Reading, the weekly readers incorporate important academic, content area vocabulary. With discussion questions and age-appropriate activities, phonics skills are strengthened. In addition, the hands-on extension activities encourage exploration and critical thinking, which teaches our students how to be problem-solvers.