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Scholastic Classroom Magazines

Reaching more than 25 million students each year!

Scholastic is a leading publisher of educational classroom magazines for grades K–12, reaching more than 25 million students and teachers across the country. Working closely with teacher and student advisors, Scholastic’s magazines tailor current events coverage for each grade that is age-appropriate, curriculum-based, and award-winning.

Scholastic Classroom Magazines Honors include:

Association of Educational Publishers (EdPress)
Golden Lamp and Distinguished Achievement Awards
Parents’ Choice Award
Recognized by the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS)

Each issue of the magazine includes a Teacher’s Edition, which provides guidance on how to best incorporate the magazines in the classroom. It’s packed with activities, lesson plans and reproducibles that help build students’ vocabulary, reading, and writing skills.

Current Events Magazines Overview:

Scholastic News® (grades 1-6) Ed Press Award Winner — grade-by-grade classroom magazines give kids their own thought-provoking, interactive news weekly through which they can understand current events and relate them to their world. Scholastic News is also published in a Bilingual edition for grades 1-3.
Scholastic News English/Español (grade 1 and grades 2/3) features engaging nonfiction articles in both English and Spanish! The magazine’s unique flip-style allows beginning ELL students to read their native language and then turn the magazine to get the same content in English.
Junior Scholastic® (grades 6-8) is new and improved! This bimonthly current events magazine providing social studies teachers with timely articles tying into the complete curriculum, including current events, global studies, geography, economics, American history, world history and government. Ed Press Award Winner.
The New York Times UPFRONT®, published by Scholastic in partnership with The New York Times, is a newsmagazine for high school students with articles on domestic and international politics, government, technology, economics, history and law. The magazine provides a unique teen perspective on the news and gives students the information and background they need to discuss and debate current events. Ed Press Award Winner.
Scholastic News Online, the magazines' online companion, is a free resource for teachers, parents and children that can be used in the classroom or at home to discuss current events and develop students' understanding of how national and international news affects their lives. Scholastic News Online’s special reports on topics including the September 11th attacks, the Middle East crisis, school violence and more recently Hurricane Katrina have won high praise from teachers for age-appropriate, sensitive coverage of major breaking news. These Online reports compliment news articles in current issues of the Classroom Magazines and offer more activities and extensive coverage of breaking news. Scholastic News Online’s regular news polls, which typically attract 50,000 responses, offer students a place to weigh in on the most relevant news stories and issues of the day. Scholastic News Online also provides curriculum-based content, which ties into each issue of DynaMath, SuperScience, and Storyworks.

Content area-specific classroom magazines for pre-K, elementary and secondary school levels include:

Clifford The Big Red Dog® (Pre-K) — A unique magazine for pre-school teachers and children that provides both classroom curriculum support and easy-to-use materials to strengthen the home-school connection.
Let’s Find Out® (Kindergarten) — An engaging curriculum of language arts, science and social studies to teach and reinforce important early skills; Ed Press Award Winner.
DynaMath® (grades 3-6) — Relevant, entertaining, and fun real-life math builds problem-solving and critical thinking skills; the new Math in Literature series is based on The Marilyn Burns Classroom Math Library.
Storyworks® (grades 3-6) — A language arts magazine that builds reading and writing skills using quality literature in a wide variety of genres and award-winning authors as models; Ed Press Award Winner.
SuperScience® (grades 3-6) — High-interest feature articles and hands-on activities teach basic science and technology concepts; The new Science Around The World feature explores science taking place around the globe; Ed Press Award Winner.
Scholastic Action® (grades 6-12) (Reading Level 3-5) — Contemporary topics and high interest reading for the below-level and reluctant reader; the new My True Teen Story writing program helps kids improve writing skills.
Scholastic Scope® (grades 6-10) — Young-adult stories, original classroom plays, classics, fiction, and nonfiction that build reading and language arts skills at a reading level of grades 6-8.
Science World® (grades 6-10) — Compelling science features and vivid science photography bring the latest news and discoveries to life; the new Science Around the World feature explores science taking place around the globe.
Scholastic Math® (grades 6-9) — Real-world math presented using celebrities and teen idols to engage students with math concepts; the new Math in Literature features bring literacy into the math classroom.
Scholastic Choices® (grades 7-12) — High-interest teen topics and information students need to make informed personal decisions, with expanded coverage of health issues, plus nutrition, substance abuse prevention, family life, personal responsibility, and consumer economics.
Scholastic Art® (grades 7-12) — Inspires students as it integrates studio art with art history, and provides a balanced program of great artists and periods.
Scholastic Foreign Language Magazines, (grades 7-12) — Each monthly issue brings Spanish, French and German to life with articles on teen-interest topics, and builds speaking and listening skills. Titles include ¿Qué Tal?®, Ahora®, El Sol®, Allons-Y!(tm), Bonjour(tm), Ça Va?®, Chez Nous®, Das Rad®, Schuss® and Aktuell®.

Scholastic News Nonfiction Readers (grades 1–2) are delightful paperbacks featuring age-appropriate text and color photography designed specifically for upper-emergent readers. Each book collection includes 6 copies each of 6 individual readers — that’s 36 books in all. Box sets include: Animals; Biographies; Space Science: Inner Solar System; and Space Science: Outer Solar System.

Under the guidance of Scholastic's award-winning team of editors, the Scholastic Kids Press Corps — a team of students ages 10-14 — report on current events, breaking news, politics, entertainment and sports events from their hometowns across the country. Their articles are published at Scholastic News Online and in Scholastic News® and Junior Scholastic® magazines.

Scholastic Classroom Magazines recently developed and launched Write It, the publishing site for student writers in grades 7-12. Write It features a range of interactive, instructional and motivational resources to encourage students to find their voice, develop their craft and publish their work. The site’s features support students and teachers throughout every step of the writing, editing and publishing process.

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A sampling of our more than 30 classroom magazines

Action
Language Arts
6–12