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STANDARDS

Meet Today's Most Important Academic Standards

Junior Scholastic and its teaching resources are designed to support rigorous social studies and English language arts standards at the state and national levels.

National Standards

Aligns to Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English Language Arts
Aligns to National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies (NCSS)
Aligns to the C3 Framework for Social Studies

State Standards

Aligns to Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) Standards for Social Studies and English Language Arts and Reading
Aligns to the California History-Social Science Content Standards
Aligns to the Florida State Standards for Social Studies, English Language Arts, and Science

BLENDED LEARNING

Engage Every Student with Flexible Print + Digital Resources

Lower-Lexile® Articles

Every feature is available at a lower-Lexile level, so you can share Junior Scholastic with all your students.

Audio

Students can follow along as every Junior Scholastic article is read aloud. Great for differentiation, fluency, listening comprehension, and more!

Map Skills Boot Camp

Build essential map-reading and geography skills with 13 ready-to-go lessons and accompanying activities.

Videos

Engage students and build background knowledge with several closed-captioned videos per issue.

Skill Builders

Reinforce critical social studies and ELA skills with more than 20 Skill Builders per issue.

Issue Archive

Search for your favorite articles, videos, Skill Builders, and activities with our multiyear archive.

CALENDAR

Cover Curricular Topics and the News All Year

2024–2025 Planning Calendar

Here's a sneak peek at our 2024–2025 second semester calendar. In addition to all of these great articles, subscribers can access 100s more articles in our digital archive.

TEACHER SUPPORT

Save Prep Time with Comprehensive Teaching Support

We've done the prep work for you! Every issue includes:

Step-by-step lesson plans
State and national standards alignments
Clear learning objectives
Discussion and close-reading questions
Skills-based activities
Writing prompts
Differentiation tips

Pacing and Implementation Guide

To help you make the most of all the great resources Junior Scholastic offers, we’ve developed this pacing guide. It features implementation suggestions and curriculum connections you need to plan lessons effectively and efficiently. Click here to view.

SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

Build the Skills Your Students Need Most

Junior Scholastic is designed to meet higher academic standards, and boosts key social studies, language arts, and writing skills.

View the PDF skills list here.

Core Social Studies and Language Arts Skills

Close Reading
Citing Textual Evidence
Analyzing Primary Sources
Conducting Research
Academic and Domain-Specific Vocabulary
Identifying Central Ideas and Details
Summarizing
Analyzing Maps, Charts, Graphs, and Diagrams
Determining Cause and Effect

Key Geography and Map-Reading Skills

Latitude and Longitude
Direction, Scale, and Distance
Elevation; Land and Water Forms
Continents and Oceans

Writing and Critical-Thinking Skills

Argumentative and Informative Writing
Evaluating Sources
Detecting Bias
Word Choice and Tone
Identifying Author’s Craft
Distinguishing Between Fact and Opinion

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