All the resources you need to deliver dynamic, cross-genre lessons

Here’s how Storyworks helps you achieve your most important language arts objectives:

• Complex Texts in a Wide Range of Genres: To help you meet Common Core Standards, Storyworks' articles are written at high Lexile^® levels and supported by challenging reader tasks that demand close reading. Each issue features: 

  • Thrilling Narrative Nonfiction: Packed with text features, these rich and engaging stories will captivate your students while building critical nonfiction reading skills. 

  • Original Fiction—wonderful short stories by famous authors are leveled and accessible to all types of learners—perfect for reading groups.

  • Readers Theater Plays bring classic stories, myths, and historical events to life and excite students about hard-to-teach genres and cross-curricular topics.

  • Paired Texts explore two important topics through two different genres—a poem and a newspaper article, an essay and a journal entry…students identify common themes, compare and contrast, and draw key ideas from a wide range of genres.

  • Classic and Contemporary Poems introduce students to figurative language.

• Science and Social Studies Curriculum Support: Our stories cross the content areas, and are packed with concepts and vocabulary that will help your students build key knowledge in a range of topics.

• Support for all levels of readers: Differentiated articles, audio versions of key stories, and engaging videos are just some of the tools we provide to ensure that our stories are accessible to all readers.

• Debate/Essay Kit takes questions right out of students’ lives to engage them in argument writing activities that begin with finding main ideas and supporting details in a short nonfiction article.

• Fun Grammar Activities challenge students to find and fix common errors in word choice, punctuation, spelling, and structure. These activities are designed to build grammar and revision skills.

• Teacher’s Guide with every issue includes four in-depth lesson plans, including writing prompts, criticalthinking questions, teaching objectives, and more.

• FREE Online Language Arts Teaching Supplement works with the magazine to help you deliver dynamic multimedia lessons using your whiteboard, projector, or classroom computer. Includes fabulous videos, rigorous activity sheets, and incredible digital lessons that will challenge and engage students.