INTRODUCTION Higher standards in education highlight the need to engage students in reading with understanding from the early grades through high school. With the goal of reaching more advanced literacy achievement levels, students are now required to read more challenging texts than they were in the past. Moreover, many of the higher standards emphasize literacy across content areas, requiring reading and writing to be taught in subjects beyond English class, such as in social studies, history, math, and science. With more than 30 unique titles for all ages, Scholastic Magazines+ is a classroom resource for teachers and students to meet standards from early childhood through high school. From Let’s Find Out ® , which introduces nonfiction pieces to students in Kindergarten, to The New York Times Upfront ® , a magazine that challenges high schoolers to think critically about current events, Scholastic Magazines+ provides endless opportunities to support classroom learning. Magazines serve as learning supports by helping to develop literacy skills through the close reading of fiction and nonfiction texts. Instruction in close reading, “an instructional practice that makes complex texts accessible using repeated reading, cognitive scaffolding, and discussion” (Wertz, 2014, p. 78), can pose challenges if the materials are not engaging or age appropriate for students. Articles of varying lengths in Scholastic Magazines+ offer students the opportunity to perform close readings of relevant and current fiction and nonfiction pieces, as well as allow teachers to expand the range of text types used in classrooms for literacy instruction. Magazine articles may help engage readers of all levels, providing the opportunity for repeated readings and stimulating discussions with teachers and peers. ABOUT THIS REPORT This report explores educational research that identifies how classroom magazines can support instruction by fostering literacy and learning across disciplines in an engaging way for different reading- and grade-level students. It also describes multiple ways in which Scholastic Magazines+ serves as an integral resource for teachers and students, both at school and at home. Provided in this report are examples of the wide variety of Scholastic Magazines+ titles and how they support multigenre and cross-disciplinary reading and learning.
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