Multigenre Texts for Students. Literacy Growth for Districts. Discover the Essential ELA Supplement for Grades 1–6
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Storyworks stories are so captivating, my students always look forward to reading... I’ve seen the benefits, the growth, and the happiness in my readers!
See the Storyworks Difference
Jen DuPont | Grade 4 Teacher
In 2023, Audubon School District in New Jersey,
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What was Audubon doing differently? They were using Storyworks magazine. significant improvement saw with student proficiency rates on state assessments, outperforming the state average by as much as 25%.
Read the case study.
Fuel Literacy Growth with Irresistible Texts
Storyworks ® magazine is the most powerful print and digital ELA supplement for Grades 1–6. It combines high-interest texts with standards-aligned teaching materials to complement and enhance the impact of your core curriculum .
Motivate Readers Every issue includes the kinds of unforgettable stories students truly love— funny, thrilling, and relevant to their lives.
Expand Knowledge Texts build knowledge in science, social studies, and other content areas, strengthening your students’ comprehension in and out of the ELA block.
Accelerate Skills Students practice and apply the skills they’re learning during core instruction to our complex, grade-level texts.
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Empower Educators with Robust Teaching Support Storyworks materials are low prep and high-impact—so your team can focus on achievement, not implementation.
Print Magazines With 32-page issues delivered six times a year, teachers can focus on teaching, not finding resources to round out their curriculum or provide additional practice.
Digital Resources Drive deeper learning and skills mastery with videos, vocabulary slideshows, activities, and so much more online.
Ready-to-Go Lesson Plans Deliver high-quality instruction with clear learning objectives and research-based teaching routines for new and veteran teachers alike.
Resource Archive With access to past Storyworks content, teachers can quickly find materials on the topics they’re teaching from a source they trust.
Storyworks is engaging, rigorous, and easy to integrate! Thank you for making reading accessible for all learners.
Brenda Webster | Grade 5 Teacher
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NEW! Search and Discover Content by Your State Standards Storyworks magazine websites now provide teachers with an easy way to browse content aligned specifically to their grade and standards. Here’s how easy it is to use:
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Search by Standard Enter any standards code or description. Or, look at the correlations just for your state with every text.
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Find Matching Resources Choose from high-quality texts created specifically for your grade and content area standards.
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Meet Your Goals Ensure purposeful instruction with magazines that automatically align to your state standards.
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Scan for a look at upcoming stories in our editorial calendars.
Read Every Genre. Sharpen Every Skill.
Every issue of Storyworks brings together a variety of genres, from thrilling narrative nonfiction, to short informational texts, to compelling fiction. Students must practice and apply the reading and writing skills they are learning to each text, creating stronger, more well-rounded readers.
Narrative Nonfiction
Short Nonfiction
The knowledge-building Mini Read presents a short, high-interest nonfiction article to open the print magazine. (Grade 2 pictured.)
Paired Texts
Each six-page article delves into an important and highly engaging topic, often connected to social studies and science curriculums. (Grade 1 pictured.)
Fiction
The paired texts feature offers two texts united by topic or theme; for example, two nonfiction articles, or a nonfiction text paired with a fiction story or other genre. (Grades 4–6 pictured.)
Stories focus on social and life skills and address issues relevant to elementary students, including friendships and school. (Grade 3 pictured.)
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Go Deeper with Storyworks Digital
Every Storyworks text comes with a wealth of game-changing digital resources to supercharge reading skills. These tools fit seamlessly into your classrooms to make planning easier and learning deeper—and they can be fully integrated with your learning management system.
p Boost vocabulary with interactive slideshows.
p Quickly measure
p Hand out print magazines to every student in class.
comprehension with quizzes and skills sheets.
p Strengthen fluency with audio articles and Text- to-Speech read-alouds.
p Read and mark up texts online with a digital magazine view.
p Build knowledge and excitement with real-world videos.
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Propel Every Reader to Proficiency with One-Click Differentiation Storyworks ’s powerful differentiation tools create the capacity to address each learner’s individual needs. When teachers use their digital access, they can customize instruction by giving all students access to the exciting, skill-building lessons that ladder them up to grade-level text.
• Support Every Learner with scaffolding tools that make every text accessible to all students. • Empower Striving Readers with audio and video read-alouds and a Text-to- Speech feature. • Fill Knowledge Gaps with background videos on key topics. • Ramp Up Skills with leveled activity sheets and quizzes. • Ensure Comprehension with vocabulary slideshows that show new words in context with definitions.
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Implementation of Storyworks is effortless. Our step-by-step lesson plans, pacing guide, and video tutorials take the guess work out of planning for any part of the literacy block. Integrate Seamlessly into Any Part of the ELA Block
See a Sample Storyworks Literacy Block Schedule:
Whole Class Watch videos and read texts with your interactive whiteboard or projector. Read magazines together. Lead discussions and debates.
Independent Read articles, do activities, and more, individually. Learn with magazines, tablets, or computers.
Small Group Read with selected groups of students. Differentiate instruction. Check comprehension with quizzes.
At Home Send magazines home with students to engage families and encourage reading. Share digital access for learning anytime.
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Support Skills Development as Students Progress through the Grades As a full-school solution, Storyworks builds students’ knowledge throughout the grades by increasing in rigor and relevance, ensuring purposeful practice of essential ELA skills across the content areas. We are rooted in the research behind the Science of Reading and support critical word recognition and language comprehension.
Magazine Edition
Foundational Skills
Vocabulary
N onfiction Comprehension
Print Concepts: Understand basic features of print and components of a sentence.
Acquire grade- level academic and domain-specific vocabulary.
Text Features: Identify illustrations, pictures , labels , captions, headings, maps; get information from pictures and words ; with support , use features to locate facts.
Decoding: Listen to word sounds and rhymes.
Learn suffixes for plurals and tense.
Main Idea: With support , identify main idea.
Text Structures: Identify structures including compare and contrast.
Grade 1
Fluency: Listen to read- alouds online to model fluency; with support , read aloud grade-level texts with fluency
Acquire grade- level academic and domain-specific vocabulary.
Text Features: Identify and analyze illustrations, photos , captions, headings, maps; use features to locate facts.
Main Idea: Identify main idea.
Learn common affixes.
Text Structures: Identify structures including sequence , problem and solution , compare and contrast.
Grade 2
Fluency: Listen to read- alouds online to model fluency; read aloud grade- level texts, including plays , with fluency
Acquire grade- level academic and domain-specific vocabulary.
Text Features: Analyze pictures , captions, headings, maps, and sidebars and how they connect to the text .
Main Idea: Identify main idea of whole piece and sections .
Learn word roots and affixes.
Text Structures: Identify structures including sequence, problem and solution, cause and effect , compare and contrast, and description .
Grade 3
Fluency: Listen to read- alouds online to model fluency; read aloud grade- level texts, including plays , with fluency
Acquire grade- level academic and domain-specific vocabulary. Determine the meaning of idioms in text.
Text Features: Analyze pictures, captions, headings, maps, charts , graphs , diagrams , and sidebars and how they connect to the text.
Main Idea: Identify main idea(s) of whole piece and sections.
Grades 4–6
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Scan to see the entire skills progression chart:
Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
Grades 4–6
Storyworks builds students’ skills by increasing in rigor and relevance of essential ELA skills across the content areas.
Fiction and Poetry Comprehension
Writing
Speaking and Listening
Retelling: Retell stories including key details.
Opinion Writing: Write an opinion supported by a reason.
Develop grade-level oral language.
Character: Describe characters and character traits .
Informational/Explanatory Writing: Write facts about a topic.
Listen to story read-alouds.
Figurative Language: Become familiar with idiomatic language.
Discuss ideas and details of stories with peers and adults.
Research: Research facts about a topic.
Retelling: Retell stories including key details.
Opinion Writing: Write an opinion supported by reasons .
Develop grade-level oral language.
Character: Describe characters and how they respond to events .
Informational/Explanatory Writing: Write facts about a topic.
Listen to story read-alouds.
Inference: Make predictions based on text.
Discuss ideas and details of stories with peers and adults.
Research: Gather information to answer a question.
Figurative Language: Become familiar with idiomatic language and personification .
Character: Describe character traits , how a character changes , character’s motivation .
Opinion Writing: Write an opinion essay supported by reasons.
Develop grade-level oral language.
Inference: Make inferences, such as ones about character and plot.
Informational/Explanatory Writing: Write an informational/explanatory essay supported by text evidence.
Listen to story read-alouds.
Discuss ideas and details of stories with peers and adults.
Figurative Language: Identify imagery, alliteration, and personification.
Character: Describe character traits, how a character changes, character’s motivation, how characters interact .
Opinion Writing: Write an opinion essay supported by reasons and evidence and rebutting an opposing view . Informational/Explanatory Writing: Write a logically developed informational/explanatory essay supported by text evidence.
Develop grade-level oral language.
Listen to story read-alouds.
Inference: Make inferences, such as ones about character, plot, and theme .
Discuss ideas and details of stories with peers and adults.
Figurative Language: Identify metaphors , similes , personification, and imagery; describe how they add to the text .
Make presentations.
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Teach Any Topic, Any Skill, Any Time.
Storyworks includes access to a vast online archive of past materials. Whenever teachers need a high- quality resource to expand on their core instruction, they can quickly search for just the right article, skills sheet, or lesson for what they’re teaching.
Hands down my favorite resource of all time. So special, rich, and powerful to have in the hands of all students. The work you’re doing is absolutely transforming our classroom.
Kirsten Baker | Grade 5 Teacher
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