Schools across the country will be reopening this fall, and like you, we couldn’t be more excited. We’re here to help you give students the instruction and support that they deserve when they return to the classroom. Whether you’re looking for literacy curricula, classroom libraries, SEL programs, or interventions for striving readers, we can help you get back on track after an unprecedented year.
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Learning to Read, Loving to Read
Learning to read with fluency and comprehension means mastering a set of complex skills that help readers to decode and understand words in a text. Skilled readers must be proficient in the five foundational reading skills that allow them to translate written words to spoken language, and the ability to make meaning from what they’ve read.
Build Early Foundations for Lifelong Literacy Achievement
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Adaptive Foundational Reading Instruction
Help students secure the foundational reading skills to become fluent readers with strong comprehension.
- Continuous formative assessment that monitors mastery of phonological and comprehension skills while plotting an adaptive path for each student
- Develops automaticity of the 44 sounds of the English language through explicit instruction while systematically introducing more complex phonemic and phonetic skills
- Tracks progress across skills at the district, school, class, and student level to meet critical reading goals
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Develop Foundational Skills
These short, enjoyable stories provide children with a fun way to apply developing their phonics skills.
- Develops phonemic awareness and makes connections between sounds and letters
- Explores how to blend sounds to make words
- Helps students recognize high-frequency words that are commonly found in early reading and writing
- Develops fluency and an increased reading rate
- Available in English and Spanish
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Vocabulary and Knowledge Development
Promote vocabulary acquisition and deepen comprehension by teaching words in context across the content areas.
- Based on the research of Dr. Elfrieda Hiebert, W.O.R.D. focuses on the 2,500 word families in English that make up 90% of the text that students will encounter in school
- Introduces students to words and their meanings within context, leading to richer interactions with text
- Real-time data available at the student, class, school, and district level
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Dual-Language Videos for Early Learners
The Watch & Learn Library provides real-world videos across content-area and SEL topics.
- Models important SEL skills to help students understand emotions, set and achieve positive goals, have empathy for others, build positive relationships, and make responsible decisions
- Builds background knowledge and launches discussions and instruction in science and social studies
- Supports learners with full equity in Spanish and English
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A Comprehensive Literacy Program
Pair standards-informed instruction with high-quality authentic texts.
- Supports readers as they learn language and vocabulary and build reading comprehension skills
- Incorporates a spiraled curriculum that creates opportunities to master the common knowledge and language needed to develop personal connections to what students are reading, writing, and learning
- Integrates both print and digital along with a daily balance of reading, writing, and phonics instruction
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Open a World of Wonder and Discovery
Introduce children to the joy of reading with seasonal nonfiction magazines, videos, and hands-on activities.
- Nurtures your little learners’ curiosity with vibrant, photo-filled texts written just for them
- Grows big vocabularies with key words and encourages phonological awareness with rhyming songs and poems
- Brings reading to life with fun videos, games, and hands-on activities
- Models fluency with BIG issues to share during circle time
- Saves prep time with ready-to-go lessons on letters, counting, patterns, and more
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Kindergarten Nonfiction Weekly Reader
Foster early reading success with fun, fresh magazines and digital resources delivered all year long.
- Engages early readers with colorful magazines, videos, text-to-speech audio, and activities that make reading come alive
- Strengthens sight word recognition, phonics, and more with simple, predictable informational texts
- Boosts foundational reading skills with activities that highlight sorting, letter recognition, and more
- Saves prep time with ready-to-go lessons on comprehension, critical thinking, and other core concepts
- Strengthens vocabulary, content-area knowledge, and social emotional skills in every issue
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Build Proficient Word-Solvers
Dr. Jan Richardson and Michèle Dufresne provide strategies for planning and teaching word study and phonics lessons.
- Explores how students solve words, how to assess what students know and need to learn next, and what sequence, materials, and activities to use
- Introduces six approaches to word study and phonics
- Works with Dr. Richardson’s expert Next Step Forward lesson plan framework
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Strategies for Enhancing Phonics Instruction
Wiley Blevins explains how to identify and leverage quality decodable texts as an essential early learning tool.
- Practical lessons and routines for using decodable texts to build children’s phonics and fluency skills
- Tips for selecting strong decodable texts and what to do if you don’t have any
- Fun and engaging reproducible decodable mini-books
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Educator-Created Teaching Materials
Boost essential language arts and literacy skills with hands-on activities!
- Unlimited online access to the best classroom-tested printable teaching materials
- Read-alouds, mini-books, and foundational skill sheets
- Sight word worksheets, word sorts, sound-skills activities, writing pages, and spelling and grammar lessons
- Games and puzzles
- Below-level, at-level, and above-level collections to accommodate learning requirements for all students
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Foster Literacy Excellence in Classrooms
Empower teachers to teach foundational literacy with interactive professional learning sessions.
- Prepares teachers to support the development of early literacy skills through systematic, explicit instruction
- Supports teachers in building phonemic and phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension
- Helps teachers differentiate instruction for children using important, reliable data and effective instructional strategies
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Focus on Social-Emotional Learning and Culturally Responsive Instruction
As students come back together, there is an urgent need to help them develop supportive relationships, empathy for others, and personal responsibility. Students should have books where they can see themselves and their culture. Through culturally responsive stories and instructional resources, educators and families can help students feel valued, supported, and heard.
Develop Social Emotional Skills and Celebrate Students' Cultural Backgrounds
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Every Voice Has a Story
Each library provides high-interest, culturally relevant texts that celebrate the historically underrepresented.
- Fosters a classroom community that supports positive representation and equity
- Authentic texts that are representative of the complex and multifaceted cultures of students
- Culturally responsive instruction that celebrates the academic, social, and linguistic backgrounds of all students
- Social emotional learning that teaches the importance of empathy and an understanding of people whose stories have not historically been told
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Diversify Classroom Collections
Connect students with language that will capture their interests and provide content that's personally meaningful.
- Celebrates a wide range of cultures
- Reflects positive values, strengths, and ideals
- Accurately represents characters’ cultural heritages
- Portrays characters as problem-solvers
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A Flexible, Powerful SEL Program
Students participate in SEL activities, read-alouds, group discussions, independent reading/writing, and games/songs.
- Helps build social-emotional, literacy, and engagement skills
- Flexible lessons designed to create a sense of well-being, community, and belonging for all students
- Interactive literacy experiences that help students become confident readers and writers
- Strength-based units that encourage students to read independently, express themselves, share with others, and develop a deeper understanding of themselves in the world
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SEL, Empathy, and Civic Engagement
Nurture students' academic independence with literature that they can connect with both emotionally and intellectually.
- Diverse, dynamic, and age-appropriate libraries that build students’ confidence by celebrating their strengths
- A research-based framework for social-emotional development that helps kids learn empathy and resilience by focusing on belonging, curiosity, friendship, kindness, confidence, courage, and hope
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Promote SEL with Stories of Resilience
Promote SEL across the content areas with relatable magazine articles and activities in print and digital formats.
- Grades PreK–2: Understanding and managing emotions, respecting others, listening and communicating
- Grades 3–5: Friendships, responding to bullying, and building self-confidence
- Grades 6–8: Cultivating a growth mindset, self-discipline, resistance to peer pressure, an appreciation of diversity, seeking help
- Grades 9–12: Independence, responsibility, solving problems, self-motivation, making constructive choices
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Each Set Includes
A Culturally Responsive Equity Framework
Dr. Gholdy Muhammad presents an equity framework that’s grounded in history and restores excellence to literacy education.
- Promotes four learning goals for personal, intellectual, and academic success: Identity Development, Skill Development, Intellectual Development, and Criticality
- Provides self-reflective questions for teachers and students
- Includes culturally and historically responsive sample plans and text sets across grades and content areas
- Can be paired with a Scholastic-facilitated Professional Book Hook session where your team explores the framework
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Choosing and Using Latinx Literature
Promote Latinx children’s literature and literacy in classrooms and libraries.
- Dr. Julia López-Robertson’s advice for infusing our classrooms with literature by a range of Latinx authors and illustrators—voices that reflect our students and provide a window into the cultures of people from Spanish-speaking countries and communities
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Healthy Academic and Emotional Growth
This resource will help you to teach children with more insight and confidence, and offer support and guidance to caregivers.
- Offers accessible information on child development based on a deep understanding of brain research and psychology
- Helps educators understand the nature of a problem, how they can address it, and when and where to go for help
- Addresses concerns such as learning disabilities, bullying, sibling rivalry, depression, and anger
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Develop Resilient, Empathetic Readers
Our courses help teachers infuse social-emotional learning into the bedrock of foundational literacy instruction.
- Enhances literacy instructional skills to help foster confident, courageous readers
- Helps teachers develop students’ social-emotional skills within comprehensive literacy instruction
- Provides strategies to create a supportive and responsive classroom environment
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Cultivating Genius Book Hook
Dive into this facilitated book discussion about how to select culturally responsive texts to use in teaching.
- Explores Dr. Gholdy Muhammad's equity framework
- Examines the history and relevance of culturally responsive literacy
- Unpacks historically responsive learning goals and lesson plans that go beyond current standards
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Create a Community of Readers in Your Classroom
Access to books is instrumental to developing students' love of reading and their writing and vocabulary skills. Books help build content knowledge, motivate, and inspire while opening worlds of exploration and imagination. Every student deserves access to diverse, appealing books that reflect their interests, develop critical thinking skills, and instill a desire for lifelong learning.
Build Your Classroom Libraries
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Develop Lifelong Readers and Thinkers
Provide explicit support for developing independent readers.
- High-quality texts with targeted instructional resources
- A diverse collection of titles that engages students in meaningful reading experiences
- Helps students understand and manage emotions, feel empathy, establish positive relationships, and make responsible decisions
- Includes culturally relevant texts to engage all students
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Access to over 2,500 Authentic eBooks
Ensure that every student has access to the books they want to read when and where they want to read them.
- More than 2,500 ebooks and connections to thousands of print books found in most classroom, school, and public libraries
- Instructional support with conferring questions and Teaching Tip Cards enhance vocabulary development, critical thinking, comprehension, and writing skills
- Three built-in assessments and detailed reports at the student, class, school, and district levels.
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Fiction and Nonfiction Thematic Pairs
BookFlix pairs animated stories with nonfiction ebooks to build knowledge, a love of reading, and early literacy skills.
- Engages children with delightful stories paired with informational texts that increase content knowledge
- Supports English learners and beginning and striving readers with read-alouds, word highlighting, and Spanish titles
- Reinforces comprehension and vocabulary with age-appropriate learning games
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Engaging Texts that Build Knowledge
Magazines+ provide fresh, high-interest content that ignites learning in print and digital formats.
- Hundreds of quality texts paired with learning extensions
- Original videos that build background knowledge and draw students into the topics
- Differentiated reading levels, text-to-speech, vocabulary builders, and ELL supports
- Activities that build close-reading, critical thinking, and writing skills
- Quizzes, games, and customizable activities to assess progress
- Exceptional teacher support with ready-to-go lessons and resources
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A Volume-Based Approach to Reading
These research-based strategies will help your students become independent readers.
- Expands on the research, theory, and practice featured in From Striving to Thriving
- An easy-to-use guide that begins with foundational actions for increasing reading volume
- Features a decision-tree process to ask targeted diagnostic questions, review instructional options, and select targeted practices that launch students into a cycle of reading success
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Book Access for All Kids
Donalyn Miller and Colby Sharp show how providing children with access to books can change their lives.
- Explores the tools and information that administrators need to increase children’s meaningful engagement with books
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Book Access for All Kids
Strengthen Independent Reading Practices
Explore innovative ideas and practical strategies to get students reading independently.
- Interactive professional learning experiences that help teachers foster a culture that encourages independent reading
- Tips to ensure that students are thinking deeply about the books they engage with
- Examines the characteristics of effective independent reading and appropriate scaffolding
- Advice for creating independent literacy workstations in the classroom
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Build Confidence and Skills
Small-group instruction not only allows you to differentiate learning, it’s also the perfect time to encourage your students to share their strengths with one another. Through research-based programs and supports, teachers can meet the needs of every student, no matter where they are in their literacy journey, and help them develop the skills they need to be successful, joyful readers.
Enhance Reading Success with Small-Group Instruction
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Your Whole-School Small-Group Solution
Our complete solution combines research-based instruction and digital management to differentiate instruction.
- More than 1,000 high-interest authentic titles that foster the invaluable skills, knowledge, and strategies that students need to read a short or long text with deep understanding
- Strategies that help scaffold lessons, highlight key vocabulary and comprehension skills, and enhance students’ academic language
- Personalized learning that encourages understanding through a series of comprehension questions
- 52 professional titles and 24/7 digital access to the Leveled Bookroom Accelerator
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Propel Students to Independent Learning
Integrate small-group instruction, assessment, and independent practice into your classroom.
- Engaging authentic texts that invite active reading and problem solving while keeping students engaged
- Instructional supports that provide the research and tools needed for effective implementation
- Teaching Cards that include writing activities, ELL support, and comprehension strategies
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Give Striving Readers a Winning EDGE
An inclusive small-group solution that keeps striving readers within the classroom’s reading community.
- High-interest age-appropriate texts
- Customized lessons and innovative teaching strategies that address the needs of striving readers, setting them on a path to success
- Scaffolds instruction with multiple English language supports and unique Pre-A levels to empower young readers
- Helps children understand their emotions with social-emotional discussion prompts
- Digital supports for whole-class connections
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Engage Striving Readers with Action
Empower your reluctant readers with high-interest, accessible texts about current, teen-friendly topics.
- Keeps students’ attention with relatable, multigenre stories featuring real, diverse teens
- Utilizes three intervention reading levels with built-in scaffolding for collaborative group work to foster reading confidence and build stamina
- Engages every student and expands background knowledge with video, audio, and slideshows
- Inspires long-term success and strengthens ELA skills with differentiated activities and practices
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Build Strong Readers, Writers, and Thinkers
Inspire students to become confident, successful readers with this thrilling ELA resource.
- Sparks meaningful conversations in small-group literacy blocks with authentic texts that span genres
- Targets each student’s needs with powerful, flexible differentiation tools to build confidence and fluency
- Can be deployed in any scope and sequence with fresh content all year long plus curriculum-aligned story and activity archives
- Builds knowledge and sharpens ELA skills with engaging, ready-to-teach learning extensions like video, vocabulary practice, interactive slide decks, and essential questions
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Build Strong Readers, Writers, and Thinkers
Uncover Reading Strengths and Weaknesses
Dr. Richardson, Dr. Bates, and McBride help teachers move beyond accuracy rates and observe student reading behaviors.
- Classroom-tested ideas for individual, small-group, and whole-group instruction
- Strategies to document a student’s oral reading, using a standard set of codes
- Tools to calculate students’ accuracy and self-correction rates
- Tips to determine instructional next steps
- Guidance to assess reading fluency and comprehension
- Sample running records
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Uncover Reading Strengths and Weaknesses
Enhance Small-Group Instruction
Equip teachers with the latest research-based strategies for enhancing small-group literacy practices.
- Advice for planning and teaching small-group guided reading lessons
- Common language and practices to build expertise with small-group instruction
- Tips to differentiate instruction using data collection and varied text and grouping methods
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Engage Families and Communities in Student Success
When families, communities, and schools work together, students are more successful and the entire community benefits. Research shows that when families are engaged in meaningful ways to actively support their children's learning and development, students thrive both in and out of the classroom.
Support Student Achievement Through Family Engagement
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Support Independent Reading at Home
Help build students’ home libraries with book packs that include family engagement activities, tips, and support.
- Meets the home literacy needs of children, regardless of their access to technology
- Can be delivered to directly to schools or a single site, and are packaged for easy distribution
- Up to four theme packs that can be delivered throughout the school year to support independent reading at home
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Interactive Family Literacy Events
Everything you need to have a successful literacy event— take-home books, activities, a planning guide, and more!
- Supports students, fluency and comprehension with grade-specific literacy and writing strategies
- Encourages families and children to read together with fun interactive activities
- Reinforces reading at home with take-home resources including high-interest books and family tip sheets
- Builds sustainable partnerships between educators and families with strategies aligned to the Dual Capacity–Building Framework
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One Kit. Limitless Possibilities.
These kits help parents prepare their children to thrive in kindergarten and beyond.
- Resources that give families everything they need to integrate learning into their daily routines
- Builds foundational skills including phonological awareness and early comprehension through activities conveniently organized by skill
- Helps children identify their feelings and emotions
- Includes tips for learning with common household objects
- Incorporates health and safety advice
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Support Children's Early Development
The kits help children prepare for and succeed in kindergarten and throughout their education.
- Easy-to-use kits that give families everything they need to integrate learning into their daily routines
- A bilingual Family Guide to support the skills that students are learning across the content areas at school
- Rich resources that provide guidance for how to develop strong partnerships with schools
- Activities that help children identify feelings and emotions
- Literacy activites that help students thrive from kindergarten through Grade 1
- A journal to encourage self-expression through drawing and writing
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Support Children's Early Development
A Read-Aloud Mentoring Program
R.E.A.L. gives you the tools to recruit community members who serve as role models to instill a love of reading in students.
- Engaging, motivating books that foster meaningful discussions between students and community mentors
- Promotes reading improvement, academic motivation, improved self-esteem, and ongoing and consistent community involvement
- Mentor guides that provide book summaries and suggested discussion points
- Student Guides that include fun activities and help the reader share their ideas about the book
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Build and Sustain Community Partnerships
Mobilize your community to engage with your schools!
- Ten practical steps for seeking out and developing powerful partnerships
- Helps educators turn their goals into reality through ongoing, sustained community partnerships
- Hands-on strategies for community-funded school improvements
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Build and Sustain Community Partnerships
Engage Families in Student Learning
Build the capacity of school staff and families to support student achievement.
- Tips to systemically strengthen family-school partnerships that improve student achievement and school culture
- A framework to prioritze family and community engagement as an instructional strategy
- Builds the capacity of staff to engage every family in support of student success
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Engage Families in Student Learning
The Dr. Karen Mapp Workshop Series
Engage families in meaningful partnerships that support student success.
- Reframes family and community engagement core beliefs
- Explores ways to help families practice activities that support their children's learning at home
- Advice for planning and hosting family engagement events that are aligned to student learning goals
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