Special Collections

 

 

Explore the Storyworks archive with these multi-genre text sets centered around a theme or topic.

 

Celebrating Friendship

We delved into the Storyworks archives to bring you some of our most beloved stories about friendship. We hope these cross-genre stories spark conversations with your young readers about the importance and joys of friendship, as well as how to make and keep friends.

Explore the Collection

Celebrating Black Stories

Our most beloved stories for Black History Month, from a powerful play about a kid who led a series of sit-down strikes to a gripping nonfiction article about the co-discoverer of the North Pole.

Explore the Collection

Earth Day Every Day

Earth Day is a time when over a billion people around the world recognize and appreciate our natural world. Learning about our environment is a great way to celebrate—and Storyworks has you covered with these incredible stories from the archives.

Explore the Collection

Women Who Changed History

Our most beloved stories for Women's History Month, from a powerful play about the heroes behind the 19th amendment, to the inspiring true story of Sylvia Mendez. 

Explore the Collection

Debates En Español

Available in both English and Spanish, this collection of debates will serve as excellent linguistic support and scaffolding for the Spanish-speaking students in your classroom.

Includes a Teacher's Guide!

 

Explore the Collection

Disaster and Survival

Our most popular stories about natural disasters—and how people survive these difficult events. We hope you enjoy sharing these stories with your students.

 

Explore the Collection

Courage and Resilience

Our most beloved stories about courageous and resilient kids, both real and imagined. We hope these stories spark conversations with your young readers about how to cope with difficult situations, how we change as people, and how to build resilience.

 

Explore the Collection

Adapting to Change

We delved into the Storyworks archives to bring you some of our most beloved stories about kids who adapt to change. We hope these stories—both real and imagined— spark conversations with your young readers about how to adapt to the changes that happen in their own lives.

 

Explore the Collection

Celebrating Hispanic Heritage

Delightful and inpsiring stories that feature Hispanic characters, authors, and real-life role models.

Explore the Collection

Young Changemakers

We delved into the Storyworks archives to bring you some of our most beloved stories about courageous kids who made change throughout history and today. We hope these stories inspire your students to make change in their own communities.

 

Explore the Collection

Stories for Halloween

From a play about a headless horseman to a poem about bats, these scary tales and creepy stories from the Storyworks library will delight your students and help you celebrate Halloween. Enjoy!

Explore the Collection

Celebrating Native American Heritage

Celebrate the richness and diversity of Native American cultures with these plays, poems, and articles from Storyworks.

 

Explore the Collection

Image Credits: CELEBRATING FRIENDSHIP: Shutterstock.com; EARTH DAY, EVERY DAY: Charlie Reaney/Getty Images (Turtle);  COURAGE AND RESILIENCE: Artwork by Greg Ruhl from The Superkids Reading Program Wilma Rudolph © Zaner-Bloser, Inc.  Used with permission from Zaner-Bloser, Inc.  All rights reserved.; YOUNG CHANGEMAKERS: Granger, NYC/The Granger Collection (Newsies); DISASTER AND SURVIVAL: Noah Berger/AP Images (Fire) CELEBRATING BLACK STORIES: Phil Skinner/AP Images for Scholastic Inc (Yolanda Renee King) WOMEN WHO CHANGED HISTORY: Illustration by Randy Pollak; CELEBRATING HISPANIC HERITAGE: ILLUSTRATIONS BY JERRY CRAFT; Celebrating Halloween: Gary Hanna; Autumn: Art by Leslie Stall Widener;