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Stories as Extraordinary as Your Students
Dear Educator,
There is a power in telling stories that allow students to experience the world. You build curiosity and knowledge, foster impactful instruction, and prompt compelling discussions. That’s why we bring you Storyworks ® magazine, the most powerful multigenre ELA resource for Grades 1–6. Our thrilling stories grab students’ attention, sparking a desire to read deeply and comprehend widely. Our robust teaching resources provide for pedagogy-based lessons that produce thriving readers, writers, and thinkers. I’ve had the honor of working with hundreds of educators and district leaders to implement Storyworks in their ELA blocks, and seeing its incredible impact on reading skills and overall academic success. Consulting with teachers on our advisory boards and their students, we continue to create the stories that kids want and love to read. And we’re always developing new instructional resources to help you improve literacy outcomes. Throughout elementary school, Storyworks transforms reading into impactful learning moments that lift academic results. We’re eager to partner with your schools to raise reading engagement and achievement for all your students.
Lauren Tarshis SVP/General Manager, Scholastic Magazines+ Bestselling author of the I Survived series
Drive Skills Acquisition and Knowledge Development with Thoughtful Reading Experiences
Created to enhance your core ELA curriculum, Storyworks is a multigenre print and digital magazine that supports teachers in providing engaging content and powerful instructional support. Aligned to standards and delivered throughout the year, it consistently fosters unique and exciting reading and writing opportunities to strengthen skills and increase knowledge.
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! Jen DuPont | Grade 4 Teacher
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Made for today’s classroom, Storyworks captivates readers with immersive reading experiences. Our knowledge-building, relevant, and engaging texts get them thinking and talking in and out of the classroom. We help teachers introduce young learners to the discovery, joy, and self-confidence that comes from reading. And we invite upper elementary students to explore important themes and topics that expand their understanding of the world and themselves. Create Reading Excitement with Stories across the Genres
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Optimize Student Outcomes with Curriculum & Standards Support
Articles and their instruction are aligned to state and national standards with access to:
• Complexity Factors • Reading Levels
• Featured and Key Skills • Standards Alignments • Content-Area Connections
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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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Empower Educators with Robust Teaching Support
More than a magazine, every issue of Storyworks incorporates complete teaching kits that turn our high-quality texts into high-impact lessons. Great for new and veteran teachers, they include step-by-step lesson plans that save planning time and enhance instructional capability.
Six issues per year with robust Lesson Plans include:
p Quizzes and skills sheets measure comprehension
p Print magazines (optional) give every student a copy
p Interactive slideshows boost vocabulary
p Reading levels and other text facts focus instruction
p Audio articles with Text- to-Speech develop fluency
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Teachers receive professional learning support—embedded training videos, live webinars, and in-person consultations.
p Digital magazine view enables online reading
p Real-world videos build knowledge and excitement
p LMS and LTI integration is built into Storyworks
p Standards correlations align lessons to goals
p Lesson plans guide ready-to-go instruction—great for new teachers
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Reach Every Reader with One-Click Differentiation Tools
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 and promote equity by giving all students access to the exciting, skill-building lessons at their level.
• Meet Readers Where They Are with multiple reading levels online. • Empower Striving Readers with audio and video read-alouds and a Text-to-Speech feature. • Fill Knowledge Gaps with background videos on key topics. • Ensure Comprehension with vocabulary slideshows. • Ramp Up Skills with leveled activity sheets and quizzes. • Support Multilingual Learners with resources for ELLs.
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Our Pacing Guides cover implementation for the entire school year.
Integrate Seamlessly into the ELA Block
Meet your instructional goals with Storyworks by easily integrating it into the core ELA block, supporting whole-class instruction, small-group learning, and independent reading. With so much flexibility and practicality, Storyworks can enhance any after-school, tutoring, or summer program.
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. Complete self-guided Google Slides lessons.
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 align to the Science of Reading and support critical word recognition and language comprehension.
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Foundational Skills
Vocabulary
Nonfiction Comprehension
Print Concepts: Understand basic features of print and components of a sentence. Phonological Awareness: Listen to word sounds and rhymes. Fluency: Listen to read- alouds online to model fluency; with support , read aloud grade-level texts with fluency
Text Features: Identify illustrations, pictures , labels , captions, headings, maps; get information from pictures and words ; with support , use features to locate facts. Main Idea: With support , identify main idea.
Acquire grade- level academic and domain-specific vocabulary. Learn suffixes for plurals and tense. Acquire grade- level academic and domain-specific vocabulary. Learn common affixes.
Grade 1
Text Structures: Identify structures including compare and contrast.
Text Features: Identify and analyze illustrations, photos , captions, headings, maps; use features to locate facts. Main Idea: Identify main idea. Text Structures: Identify structures including sequence , problem and solution , compare and contrast. 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 . Text Structures: Identify structures including sequence, problem and solution, cause and effect , compare and contrast, and description . 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.
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. Learn word roots and affixes.
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.
Grades 4–6
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Grade 1 Grades 4–6 Storyworks builds students’ skills by increasing in rigor and relevance of essential ELA skills across the content areas. Grade 2 Grade 3
Fiction and Poetry Comprehension
Writing
Speaking and Listening
Retelling: Retell stories including key details. Character: Describe characters and character traits . Figurative Language: Become familiar with idiomatic language. Retelling: Retell stories including key details. Character: Describe characters and how they respond to events . Inference: Make predictions based on text. Figurative Language: Become familiar with idiomatic language and personification . Character: Describe character traits , how a character changes , character’s motivation . Inference: Make inferences, such as ones about character and plot. Figurative Language: Identify imagery, alliteration, and personification. Character: Describe character traits, how a character changes, character’s motivation, how characters interact . Inference: Make inferences, such as ones about character, plot, and theme . Figurative Language: Identify metaphors , similes , personification, and imagery; describe how they add to the text .
Opinion Writing: Write an opinion supported by a reason. Informational/Explanatory Writing: Write facts about a topic. Research: Research facts about a topic. Opinion Writing: Write an opinion supported by reasons . Informational/Explanatory Writing: Write facts about a topic. Research: Gather information to answer a question.
Develop grade-level oral language. Listen to story read-alouds. Discuss ideas and details of stories with peers and adults. Develop grade-level oral language. Listen to story read-alouds. Discuss ideas and details of stories with peers and adults. Develop grade-level oral language. Listen to story read-alouds. Discuss ideas and details of stories with peers and adults. Develop grade-level oral language. Listen to story read-alouds. Discuss ideas and details of stories with peers and adults. Make presentations.
Opinion Writing: Write an opinion essay supported by reasons. Informational/Explanatory Writing: Write an informational/explanatory essay supported by text evidence.
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.
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Experience Storyworks Today! Thank you for your interest in Storyworks . A Scholastic Specialist is available to answer all your questions and to help you easily transform your language arts block with our print and digital resources. See below.
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.
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• Narrative nonfiction • Short fiction • Paired texts • Plays • Debates • Mini graphic novels • And more
Kirsten Baker | Grade 5 Teacher
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