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Got your eyes on Junior Scholastic? Love to surprise your students with print copies of their very own? You could be one of 50 lucky teachers who receives a free class subscription and full digital access for the 2026-2027 school year. 

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GRADES 6–8

Junior Scholastic

Current topics, history, civics, and geography for the social studies classroom

  • 9 magazines (includes the Almanac) for each student
  • Teaching Guides for every issue
  • Access to past issue archive

$8.99 per student

District and school-wide volume discounts

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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. 
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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.
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    High-Interest Nonfiction

    Read, think, and talk about stories that matter. Listen to audio versions.
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    Real-World Videos

    Build important background knowledge with powerful videos made just for social studies.
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    Interactive Slideshows

    Grow vocabularies and comprehension with engaging lessons featuring audio and video.
  • Two Junior Scholastic skill builder worksheets, one for close-reading questions and one for a KWL chart
    Engaging Skill Builders

    Reinforce important social studies and ELA skills with targeted activities.

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    Optimize planning and teaching with step-by-step lesson plans, extension activities, and more. All this support means implementation is easy!
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  • Correlate with Your State’s Standards

    NEW! Strengthen student achievement in key assessment areas. Easily search and discover content with our correlations to your standards.
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  • Align Our Topics to Your Instruction

    Get the right materials delivered to your door at the right time. Take a look at our upcoming plans. Your topics, our texts—it's the perfect match!
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  • Meet Our Team

    Junior Scholastic is supported by a talented group of editors, video producers, photo researchers, and current classroom teachers.
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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!
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60-Second Strategies

This teacher shares a trick for building the reading stamina students need to succeed. All it takes is 60 seconds—watch the episode now! 
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