Personalize Every Child’s Path to Literacy Success

Technology will never replace great teachers, but technology in the hands of a great teacher can be transformational. — George Couros, Author of The Innovator’s Mindset

Equity and Excellence We must strive for equity in education, as all students may not have the same instructional needs, but all children need instruction in the same skills. Propelling students to success begins with meeting them where they are and providing each with a personalized learning path. Digital programs offer equitable instruction to all children, free of bias and judgment. In recent years, Scholastic has invested millions of dollars in developing innovative, personalized learning programs with robust data to inform instruction—in order to deliver truly equitable learning opportunities that can be accessed in school, at home, or on the go. With a clear focus on foundational reading skills, vocabulary acquisition, word knowledge, and independent and instructional reading, Scholastic digital solutions put all students on a learning trajectory of success. INSIDE: Personalized Reading Instruction................................................. 2–3 Foundational Reading............................................................................ 4–5 Vocabulary and Word Knowledge.............................................. 6–7 Fluency and Comprehension......................................................... 8–9 Evidence of Learning........................................................................... 10–11 Differentiate by More Than Reading Level..................... 12–13 Research and Awards.................................................................................. 14 Implementation Support.......................................................................... 15 Additional Instructional Programs................................................... 16

Not All Kids Have the Same Needs, but All Kids Need to Learn the Same Skills

Scholastic digital solutions provide personalized instruction designed to close the most essential skill gaps across the curriculum. Our award-winning programs build foundational reading and vocabulary skills, promote voluminous reading, and provide classroom management support and data to inform instruction.

Master the foundations of reading

Develop robust vocabularies

Build fluency and demonstrate comprehension

Grades PreK–2

Grades K-5

Grades K-8

Scholastic Literacy Pro® supports instructional and independent reading with thousands of ebooks, focusing on student choice, to drive reading engagement, fluency, and comprehension.

Scholastic F.I.R.S.T.® is an adaptive foundational reading program that creates joyful confident readers.

Scholastic W.O.R.D.® develops the knowledge and vocabulary students need to better comprehend what they are reading.

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Personalize Every Student’s Path to Reading Proficiency As students move through the literacy continuum, they require personalized instruction to meet their individual needs. Scholastic F.I.R.S.T., W.O.R.D., and Literacy Pro provide students that instruction and support, while affording educators actionable data to inform and differentiate instruction.

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Scholastic F.I.R.S.T.® secures foundational reading skills for students in Grades PreK–2, creating fluent readers with strong comprehension. By combining systematic phonics instruction and highly adaptive technology, F.I.R.S.T. actively personalizes each student’s path toward decoding fluency through an adventure on the magical world of Ooka Island. Master the Foundations of Reading

A literacy program that adapts, exactly as he needs.

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Purposeful Play By teaching the 44 sounds of the English language and systematically introducing more complex phonics skills, students’ brains are trained to be able to hear, identify, and manipulate each sound automatically, freeing them to focus on comprehension.

Meaningful Analytics Scholastic F.I.R.S.T. reports provide rich and actionable metrics at the district, school, class, and student level. By tracking progress across skills including phonemic awareness, phonics, and comprehension, educators are provided the data they need to meet critical reading goals.

Adaptive Instruction Scholastic F.I.R.S.T. uses continuous, formative assessment to monitor student mastery of phonological skills and comprehension and plots a personalized path for each student.

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Develop Robust Vocabularies

Scholastic W.O.R.D.® supercharges vocabulary acquisition and deepens reading comprehension for students in Grades K–5 by helping them build content and word knowledge. Based on the research of Dr. Elfrieda Hiebert, Scholastic W.O.R.D. focuses on the 2,500 word families in English that make up 90% of the big ideas and themes that students will encounter in texts as they make their way through school. As a result, Scholastic W.O.R.D. systematically exposes students to the words that matter most in literacy and in life.

A literacy program that builds the knowledge and vocabulary she needs most.

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Thematic Connections Scholastic W.O.R.D. helps students become adept in the core vocabulary they need through 10 themes per grade level. Each theme connects to the greater classroom curriculum of science and social studies and introduces students to words and their meanings within context, leading to richer interactions with text.

Game-Based Learning Scholastic W.O.R.D. ensures that critical vocabulary skills are introduced at the appropriate grade level for students. As they move through the program, skills become more complex with the use of higher-level vocabulary and content in a fun and engaging way.

Detailed Reporting Scholastic W.O.R.D. makes data easily accessible and actionable for educators at every level. Reporting is delivered in real time for each student, class, and school, while district-level reports are rolled up daily, providing educational leaders the data to best support teachers and students.

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Build Fluency & Comprehension Scholastic Literacy Pro® is a blended solution for Grades K–8 that empowers teachers to ensure effective independent and instructional reading for all students—in and out of school, 24/7. With Literacy Pro, educators have the ability to track reading activities and progress, while students are given a personalized reading experience that starts at school and continues at home.

A literacy program that connects books to their interests at their level.

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Choice With a state-of-the-art reading

Access & Flexibility Supporting equitable access to books, Literacy Pro provides students with 24/7 access to thousands of fiction and nonfiction ebooks—including favorite Scholastic titles, graphic novels, and popular series, including hundreds in Spanish. Literacy Pro also supports a blended, reading model with connections to best-selling print books found in most classroom, school, and public libraries.

recommendation engine, students are matched with the perfect books based on their interests and grade level.

Motivation & Ownership The Student Dashboard guides students to set their own personal reading goals, track progress, and rate and review books they read online or in print.

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Demonstrate Evidence of Learning Assessment Scholastic Literacy Pro® supports educators in the management of effective independent and instructional reading with three built-in assessments.

Scholastic Reading Readiness, an online tool that provides teachers with a snapshot of students’ early reading abilities.

Scholastic Reading Measure, an adaptive assessment that produces a valid and reliable Lexile® measure, with beginning, middle, and end-of- year analytics.

Think More Comprehension Checks, text-based quizzes that assess 10 higher-order comprehension skills.

Reporting Literacy Pro offers detailed reports at the student, class, school, and district levels. This essential data supports teachers in informing their daily whole-class and small-group instruction.

OVERVIEW REPORT

LEVELING REPORT

COMPREHENSION REPORT

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Instructional Support Literacy Pro supports educators in managing every part of their literacy block with: • Access to the complete library of ebooks that can be used during whole-class or small-group instruction. • More than 900 Teaching Tip Cards to enhance vocabulary development, critical thinking, comprehension, and writing skills. • Conferring questions to provide support for one-on-one conferences and small- group discussions.

Introduce the Book Invite students to describe what they see on the cover. Ask: Why was landing on the moon such an important event in human history? What do you think made this event possible? Vocabulary launched (p. 12) sent into space satellite (p. 12) spacecraft that orbits a planet sound barrier (p. 9) the point when an aircraft nears the speed of sound space race (p. 7) competition for space exploration between the U.S. and Soviet Union Analyze Informational Text Cause and Effect Explain that when students identify cause-and- effect relationships they can better understand the connections between historical events. (pp. 9–10) What effect did advances in rocket technology have? How did this technology make it possible to break the sound barrier? (pp. 12–14) What effect did the launch of the

Word Study Difficult Words Remind students that there are strategies they can use for understanding difficult words. • Point out reorganized on page 17. Say the word slowly, breaking it into syllables. Point out the root word and the prefix. Ask students what they think the word means. Use surrounding text to confirm the meaning. • Repeat with congratulatory (page 23), inflatable (page 30), and environmental (page 51). Fluency Model how to expertly read a section of text that includes such things as dates, acronyms, and parenthetical information. Then have students choral read the passage with you. Talk About It! Space Exploration Invite students to discuss what makes space exploration expensive and dangerous as well as fascinating. Discuss what humans hope to learn from space exploration. Write About Reading • Have small groups work together to create a fact sheet that identifies the key events and people (from both the United States and the Soviet Union) related to the space race. (Informative/Explanatory) • Have students write a paragraph in which they explain whether or not they think it is important for the United States to continue a space exploration program. (Opinion)

The Space Race

by Peter Benoit

Levels: GRL W, 970L

Standards • Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. • Analyze how and why individuals, events, or ideas develop and interact over the course of a text. Summary During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union competed to advance space exploration. Themes/Ideas exploring space travel; inventing new technology; learning about American history Reading Skill Cause and Effect Genre Informational Text Informational Text Features • Facts The text includes detailed facts about the space race. • Visual Resources Historical photos, a map, and a timeline provide additional information about the people and events presented in the main text. Complex Text Features • Students must navigate between the main text and numerous supporting text features. • Students may have difficulty keeping focused on the main idea because the text is densely packed with dates, events, names, and acronyms .

satellite Sputnik 1 have on people in the U.S.? What did fear in America cause President Kennedy to do?

(pp. 16–17) What events negatively affected pride in America? What event helped restore this national pride? (p. 19) What effects did U.S. leaders think success in the space race would have? (pp. 37–38) What caused NASA to redesign its capsules and perform many test missions? (pp. 54–55) What lasting effects has the space race had on our world?

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The Award-Winning Administrator Dashboard It’s no secret that education leaders are pressed for time and flooded with data. More than ever, leaders like you need actionable insights that cut through the noise and drive instruction. With the Scholastic Dashboard’s NEW Administrator View, you get an overview of the most important data analytics from Scholastic F.I.R.S.T., W.O.R.D., Literacy Pro, and more, all in one place. Actionable Insights to Drive Instruction Provide Evidence of Learning Real-time snapshots of high-level data provide a broader sense of how students are performing on specific activities or skills, as well as general program usage.

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Teacher Dashboard That Ensures the Most Authentic Instruction In order to differentiate by more than reading level, the Grouping Tool allows instructional administrators and educators to create groups based on multiple criteria. Groups can also be automatically generated based on raw data with a primary and secondary grouping rule—and can always be refined.

The Grouping Tool provides four grouping opportunities: • Teacher-Selected • Reading Level • Skills • Interests

Build Capacity to Make Informed Instructional Decisions For schools with Scholastic Literacy and/ or the Scholastic Bookroom 4 or 5, the Dashboard aligns each small group with specific instructional recommendations in the Scholastic Literacy Teacher Hub and the Bookroom Accelerator.

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Scholastic’s innovative suite of digital programs provides the research-based, personalized learning tools that students need to become skilled readers. All of our programs have been recognized as top instructional tools by the most prominent ed tech awarding organizations in the country. Built on Research. Acknowledged for Excellence.

Scholastic F.I.R.S.T. Research Foundation

Scholastic W.O.R.D. Research Foundation

Scholastic Literacy Pro Research Foundation

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Beginning as an educator

Research suggests that student choice and volume are the two most powerful factors for improving reading motivation and comprehension (Guthrie & Humenick, 2004). When students pick what they read, they take ownership of their literacy development and gain confidence in their abilities as readers. Students see the value of book choice, with nine out of ten agreeing that their favorite books are the ones they pick out themselves (Scholastic, 2018).

Dr. Elfrieda Hiebert is a lifelong literacy educator, renowned researcher, and vocabulary expert. She is a fellow of

and inspired by her profoundly deaf son, Dr. Kay MacPhee devoted

her life to developing evidence- based reading programs for all children. She spent 25 years as an accomplished researcher, and her reading comprehension concepts were ranked #1 by the What Works Clearinghouse.

the American Research Association and was awarded a William S. Gray Citation of Merit by the International Reading Association for outstanding contributions to the field of reading. Dr. Hiebert is the President and CEO of TextProject.org and a Research Associate at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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Implement with Success

Together, we can customize our instructional solutions to meet your specific needs. Our professional learning and technical support teams will guide your implementation step by step and provide ongoing support throughout your subscription term.

Professional Learning • Robust implementation

Tools & Resources • Family outreach resources in English and Spanish • Educator newsletters for ongoing engagement • Weekly progress reports emailed to teachers

Integration Support • Easily integrates with Google Classroom, Clever, and most LTI-enabled Learning Management Systems • Self-serve technical support with videos and guides • Technical support plans available to meet school and district needs

guides and embedded webinars for educators

• Optional in-person or online professional development and coaching opportunities

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Alongside Scholastic F.I.R.S.T., W.O.R.D., and Literacy Pro, Scholastic offers several other blended and digital learning programs to meet your specific instructional and content learning needs. Support Every Instructional Plan

Build a strong foundation of literacy, language, and math skills with this joyful, easy-to- implement curriculum for full- or half-day programs. PREK

GRADES PREK–3

Give your students a joyful place to practice their early reading skills and build their background knowledge by watching animated storybooks and reading related nonfiction ebooks.

Boost engagement and background knowledge with a curated library of 275+ videos that bring science, social studies, and social development topics to life!

Extend and enhance any lesson with our curated online database of over 30,000 printable resources for every subject, every grade, and every skill! GRADES PREK–6

GRADES K–3

Align your phonics instruction with the latest research. This comprehensive program systematically builds phonics while making instruction engaging for students and easy for teachers.

Take the guesswork out of literacy instruction. Our powerful assessment technology recommends the exact time and type of instruction every student needs to reach target outcomes.

Strengthen students’ content- area and literacy knowledge with a wide variety of nonfiction texts on essential science and social studies topics. GRADES 3–6

Elevate your science curriculum with over 20,000 STEM-based resources including articles, videos, hands-on projects, and so much more. GRADES 5–10

GRADES PREK–12

Make real-world connections and foster real student engagement with current articles, videos, and lessons that boost content knowledge, comprehension, and an understanding of our world.

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Build Reading Skills Systematically A full year of research-based lessons for each grade provides carefully sequenced skills instruction in phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. Respond to Student Needs Quickly Digital literacy programs with adaptive technology and real-time reporting allow teachers to differentiate instruction on the fly and provide the scaffolds and supports students need to thrive. Empower Children to Read Independently Thousands of authentic print books and a massive ebook library give students unparalleled access to diverse fiction and nonfiction books that align with their interests, reading levels, and backgrounds. When adopting a core literacy program, you need to be certain that it’s just right for every classroom, every teacher, and every student. That’s why we created Scholastic Literacy. With beloved books, adaptive technology, and research-based instruction, this core K–6 literacy program gives students the instruction they need, when they need it—so they can excel as independent readers, writers, and thinkers. One Literacy Program. Limitless Possibilities . Our comprehensive literacy curriculum: • Improves literacy outcomes with whole-class read-alouds and daily teacher-led instruction. • Meets the needs of all learners with data-driven small-group reading and learning. • Boosts reading confidence with adaptive digital learning tools and daily opportunities for independent reading.

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