Bring the World into Your Classroom with Social Studies Texts for Grades 6–8

Junior Scholastic

Bring the World into Your Classroom

Make social studies relevant and meaningful to middle schoolers with the current nonfiction resource just for them. Our texts offer teen-focused, authentic connections to curricular topics, giving students a deeper understanding of our country, the world, and their place in it.

Turn Amazing Stories into Powerful Lessons

It's already done for you! Ready-to-go teaching kits come with every story for instant, high-interest lessons. Check out our easy-to-use suite of multimedia teaching tools that elevate instruction.

High-Interest Nonfiction
Read, think, and talk about stories that matter. Listen to audio versions.
Real-World Videos
Build important background knowledge with powerful videos made just for social studies.
Interactive Slideshows
Grow vocabularies and comprehension with engaging lessons featuring audio and video.
Engaging Skill Builders
Reinforce important social studies and ELA skills with targeted activities.

Get Time-Saving Teacher Support

Optimize planning and teaching with step-by-step lesson plans, a pacing guide, and more. All this support means implementation is easy!
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Read stories. Watch videos. Browse activities. And more! Give it a try in your classroom.

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Meet Your Academic Standards

Raise student achievement by aligning lessons to instructional goals. With built-in correlations to state and national standards, you'll stay on track all year.

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Align Our Topics to Your Instruction

Get the right texts at the right time sent right to you. Look at our 2024–25 calendar. Your curriculum, our content—it's the perfect match!

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Build Essential Skills

Close-reading questions, writing prompts, primary source analysis, and other activities help students achieve grade-level mastery in:

Reading Comprehension

Social Studies and History

Geography and Map Skills

Research

Language Development

Writing

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Reach Every Learner with Differentiation

Meet students where they are—and take them where they need to be. Use multiple reading levels, a text-to-speech audio feature, closed-captioned videos, assessments, and more. Differentiate with a click!