📖Join our weekly reading class where we'll dive into an article from a recent Scholastic News magazine. Articles will be shared digitally on the screen.

Scholastic News is one of the top-selling current events magazines for elementary school children. Teachers' #1 choice for current, cross-curricular nonfiction texts, Scholastic News helps elementary students explore the world from wherever they're learning. The kid-friendly stories, skill-building activities, videos, audio and more bring excitement to science, social studies and reading (from Scholastic.) 

*This class is designed for learners reading at a second grade reading level. This class is ideal for advanced first graders, all second graders and third graders who need additional reading support. I also have a 3rd/4th grade level and 5th/6th grade level of this class if your learner is ready for more challenging texts.*

English and Language Arts curriculum standards have shifted to create a strong emphasis on exposing students to informational texts and non-fiction texts. Informational texts include literary non-fiction, historical documents, scientific journals, technical manuals, biographies, autobiographies, essays, speeches, and information displayed in charts graphs, or maps digitally or in print.  We will explore many of these types of informational texts in Scholastic News magazine.


Take a look at the wide range of English Language Arts skills that we'll focus on while reading Scholastic News :
🎯Main Idea and Key Details
🎯Compare and Contrast
🎯Author’s Purpose
🎯Cite Text Evidence
🎯Determine Word Meaning
🎯Context Clues
🎯Parts of Speech
🎯Cause and Effect
🎯Make Inferences
🎯Problem and Solution
🎯Summarize Texts
🎯Text Features
🎯Vocabulary Acquisition
🎯Integrate Multimedia


Our time together will be as follows:
5 minutes:  Welcome and Community Building
5 minutes: Introduction to the Article for the Day; Vocabulary Study (slides, picture, short video clip, discussion)
20 minutes: Read the Article Together
15 minutes: Written Response to the Article; Summarize the Article; Game/Comprehension 

Sample lessons:
 📖 "The Coolest Inventions"  Children will identify several Black inventors and explain how their inventions solved problems. 
Vocabulary: inventors, inventions, bristles
Featured Skill: read a timeline
Featured Strategy: read, stop, write

 📖 "Can a Dog Run a Town?" Children will examine what a mayor does by reading about an animal mayor.
Vocabulary: mayor, election, votes, communities
Featured Skill: read a map
Featured Strategy: read/stop/think

📖 "Monkey in the Snow"  Children will examine how snow monkeys stay warm in the cold.
Vocabulary: hot springs, groom, insulate
Featured Skill: supporting responses to text with text evidence
Featured Strategy: setting a purpose for reading

📖"Life Under the Water" Children will identify different aspects of life on a US Navy submarine.
Vocabulary: veterans, submarines, Navy, mess 
Featured Skill: main idea and details
Featured Strategy: using headings to guide our reading and summarize text

📖 "Little Owls Big Trip" Children will follow the story of an owl that was rescued from the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree.
 Vocabulary: rescue
Featured Skill: read a chart
Featured Strategy: chunking text


...and so many more! Join us for a new, engaging magazine article each week to learn about the amazing things happening in our world around us while we dive into non-fiction reading comprehension skills and strategies!


*I have obtained permission from Scholastic to use Scholastic News in this Outschool class.

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