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STANDARDS

An assortment of Storyworks 2 magazine spreads

Meet Today’s Most Important Academic Standards

Our authentic texts help students in key reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language domains. We provide essential practice in skills such as close reading and critical thinking, main idea, cause/effect, text evidence, compare/contrast, making inferences, and paragraph writing.

Nonfiction features focus on curriculum-related science and social studies topics, feature academic and domain-specific vocabulary, and nurture higher-level thinking and analytic reading, writing, and grammar skills.

TEKS Standards

Storyworks 2 supports all seven TEKS strands through listening, speaking, reading, writing and thinking activities. Click here to learn more.

Florida B.E.S.T. Standards

Storyworks 2 supports the four B.E.S.T. strands—foundational skills, reading, communication, and vocabulary—and helps students meet standards and benchmarks. See how.

Every major feature includes a quiz with multiple-choice and short-answer questions, mirroring challenging CCSS and state tests. All of our activities and quizzes can be used as formative assessments. 

CALENDAR

Support Your Growing Readers All Year Long 

2024–2025 Planning Calendar

Here's a sneak peek at some of the exciting stories we've planned for 2024–2025. Each one comes with instructional resources that support your second-grade readers. 

Plus, each Storyworks 2 issue asks an essential question. Reading, discussing, and making text-to-text connections among these stories gives kids deep insight into the question and allows them to build knowledge by synthesizing information. 

Here's a detailed look at some of our more recent 2023 stories.

BLENDED LEARNING

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

 

Multiple Reading Levels

Many stories are available at lower- and higher-Lexile® levels to help you effectively differentiate instruction. Our narrative nonfiction also comes in a starter level, for your most struggling readers.

 

Vocabulary

Challenging academic and domain-specific words are defined on the page. Slideshows highlight key vocab words and include pronunciation, images, and definitions. Printable activities emphasize learning in context.

 

Videos

In our video read-alouds, the author reads the narrative nonfiction story, while authentic footage and photos provide background knowledge. A game-changer! Also available: Behind-the-Scenes and Author Visits

 

Activities and Quizzes

Available at multiple reading levels, they allow you to tailor lessons to the individual needs of each student. Each one is based on rigorous standards. Quizzes are modeled on standardized tests.

TEACHING SUPPORT

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Save Prep Time with Comprehensive Teaching Support

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 for a variety of classroom environments
  • Extension ideas to inspire students to take their learning further
  • ELA standards correlations for each article

New! Family Engagement Letters

Available in English and Spanish: bridge the school-to-home connection, offering 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 2 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 standards alignment documents (Common Core or TEKS) to your letters to inform funders of the value that Storyworks 2 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 2 subscription

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Federal Funding/Title 1

See exactly how Storyworks 2 supports Title 1 program goals

READING AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

Build the Knowledge and Skills Your Students Need Most 

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

Storyworks provides critical word-recognition and language-comprehension instruction that helps develop knowledgeable readers as outlined in the Science of Reading.

 

Our Skills Sheets and Quizzes feature activities to support core ELA skills—the ones that will best aid your students in reading comprehension and vocabulary. Create a personalized package to fit your own scope and sequence (see STANDARDS for more).

 

Pause and Think questions embedded in our nonfiction stories are quick comprehension checks to ensure that students read carefully and understand the basic meaning of the text.

 

Think and Read boxes set a purpose for reading and prompt students to focus on one key reading skill per story. These connect to our Think and Write boxes at the end of each story, which ask students to respond to a question related to the skill focus.

 

In-Magazine Activities help students hone vocabulary, grammar, and paragraph-writing skills—and have fun while doing it.