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STANDARDS

Meet Today's Rigorous Standards and Prepare for Testing

Storyworks is designed to support today's challenging ELA standards with authentic texts that help students in reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language domains. 

Common Core and Similar Standards (CCSS)

See an in-depth breakdown of how Storyworks articles, stories, poems, activity sheets, quizzes, and other features support specific Common Core ELA standards.

Florida B.E.S.T. Standards

Storyworks supports the four B.E.S.T. strands—foundational skills, reading, communication, and vocabulary—and helps students meet standards and benchmarks. See how.

TEKS Standards

Storyworks supports all seven TEKS strands through listening, speaking, reading, writing and thinking activities. Click here to learn more.

And with each issue, you'll find detailed grade-level standards for every article and story.

CALENDAR

Share Unforgettable Stories All Year Long

2024–2025 Planning Calendar

Here's a quick look at some of the exciting stories we have planned for 2024–2025. Each one comes with a package of powerful instructional resources that support standards and build key ELA skills. 

BLENDED LEARNING

Engage Every Student – Anytime, Anywhere and On Any Device with Flexible Digital + Print Resources

 

Lower-Lexile® Articles

All of our major nonfiction features are available in lower-Lexile versions, so you can share Storyworks with even your most struggling readers.

 

Audio

Audio versions—offered for our major stories—can be used for differentiation, fluency, listening comprehension, engagement, and so much more. 

 

Skills Sheets

More than 60 skill-based differentiated activity sheets and quizzes are offered with every issue. 

 

Videos

Thrilling videos build background knowledge and engagement, getting your students excited to read the article.

 

Vocabulary Slideshows

Our interactive vocabulary slideshows offer great visual support and practice for key vocabulary words.

 

ELL Activities

Questions for English language learners prompt students to respond to what they've read and develop their language skills at the level that's right for them. 

TEACHING SUPPORT

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Save Prep Time with Comprehensive Teaching Support

We've done the prep work for you! Each print issue comes with a comprehensive Teacher's Guide and Support, including:

  • Step-by-step lesson plans with instructions for before, during, and after reading
  • Close-reading and critical-thinking questions to deepen comprehension
  • Content-area connections to science and social studies topics
  • Suggestions for adapting each lesson for your struggling and advanced readers
  • Tips for making articles more accessible for English language learners
  • Ideas for customizing instruction to a variety of classroom environments
  • Extension ideas to inspire students to take their learning further
  • ELA standards correlations for each article

Family Engagement Letters

Available in English and Spanish, these letters bridge the school-to-home connection, and offer tips and ideas for sharing the articles and resources at home. 

Click to view English.

Click to view Spanish.

Pacing Guide

Whether you are using Storyworks as a core product or as an ELA supplement, we've created a guide to help you flexibly plan your year. Click here to view.

FUNDING SUPPORT

Need help funding your subscription? Use these documents to request funds through your school, your PTA/PTO, Title 1 program, and even crowdfunding sites like DonorsChoose!

Be sure to attach our Pacing Guide and standards alignment documents (Common Core or TEKS) to your letters to inform funders of the value that Storyworks adds to your classroom.

 

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PTO/PTA Funding

Use this letter to request funding from your parent-teacher group

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Crowdfunding (like DonorsChoose)

Get step-by-step directions on creating a request

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Principal Funding

This letter outlines for your principal all of the details and benefits of a Storyworks subscription

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Federal Funding/Title 1

See exactly how Storyworks supports Title 1 program goals

SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

Storyworks gives you everything you need to build core language arts skills—no matter what your scope and sequence. View the Skills List.

Storyworks is grounded in the Science of Reading as it builds both background knowledge and vocabulary skills. See how.

Every issue of Storyworks is packed with skill-building resources!

  • "Up Close" boxes that set a purpose for reading and prompt students to focus on one important reading skill per story
  • Writing prompts that accompany every major article to provide authentic writing tasks
  • In-magazine activities that help students hone vocabulary, grammar, and opinion-writing skills—and have fun while doing it
  • Online skill-building activity sheets that introduce and reinforce key ELA skills such as text evidence, main idea and supporting details, inferencing, and more in our comprehensive Core Skills Workouts
  • And MUCH more!