NEW YORK, Feb. 20, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Scholastic,
the global children's publishing, education, and media company, has
announced a suite of digital solutions designed to support PreK–6
literacy instruction. The new research-based instructional programs
Scholastic F.I.R.S.T. (Foundations in Reading, Sounds
& Text) and Scholastic W.O.R.D. represent key shifts
in instruction by helping students build foundational reading
skills starting with letter sounds and morphological word families.
Scholastic Literacy Pro, Watch & Learn
Library, and the updated BookFlix, support effective
independent learning and whole-class instruction during the
literacy block and beyond through access to hundreds of
high-quality videos and thousands of authentic texts.
To learn more about the full range of Scholastic digital
solutions, visit:
http://www.scholastic.com/digitalsolutions.
All Scholastic digital solutions are site-based annual
subscriptions and are accessible anytime on any device.
Scholastic Literacy Pro, Scholastic F.I.R.S.T.
and Scholastic W.O.R.D. can also be found in Scholastic
Literacy, the Company's new comprehensive literacy curriculum
for K–6, launching this year. These three programs are also
equipped with educator tools that provide real-time data to inform
instruction in whole-class and small-group lessons, enhancing
opportunities to provide personalized instruction. The full suite
of digital solutions includes:
- Scholastic F.I.R.S.T. (Foundations in Reading, Sounds
& Text) An Adventure on Ooka Island (Grades PreK–2)
2018 EDDIE Award Winner: Early Elementary Literacy Skills
Website
Based on educator and researcher Dr. Kay MacPhee's more than 25 years of research
linking reading difficulties to sound differentiation,
Scholastic F.I.R.S.T. is a game-based foundational reading
program. Scholastic F.I.R.S.T.'s highly adaptive technology
takes students on an interactive reading adventure through Ooka
Island, focusing first on teaching the 44 sounds of the English
language, followed by a systematic introduction to progressively
more complex phonetic skills—creating effortless reading,
comprehension, and fluency for all students.
- BookFlix (Grades PreK–3) 2018 EDDIE Award Winner:
Early Learning Reading Skills eBook
BookFlix is a
digital literacy resource that thematically pairs storybook
classics and nonfiction titles to reinforce early reading skills
and develop essential real-world knowledge. Students build reading
confidence and curiosity as they watch Weston Woods storybook animations, listen to
read-alouds, complete comprehension activities, and explore more
than 1,100 curated websites for deeper learning. New enhancements
to the program include a reimagined, user-friendly design, "Meet
the Illustrator" biographies, an educator resource center, and
more.
- Watch & Learn Library (Grades PreK–3)
From the
editors of Scholastic News® and Let's Find
Out® classroom magazines for PreK–3, the new Watch
& Learn Library features more than 230 curriculum aligned
science, social studies, and social-emotional videos to help
teachers launch lessons, build context for further learning, and
introduce content-area vocabulary. The engaging and
developmentally-appropriate videos feature real-world footage and
are available in both English and Spanish. Closed-captioning, Think
Sheets, short quizzes, and vocabulary builders help reinforce
comprehension as students build their knowledge and vocabulary
across key curriculum topics.
- Scholastic W.O.R.D. (Grades K–5)
Literacy educator
and author Dr. Elfrieda Hiebert
analyzed over 10,000 texts to uncover the 2,500 morphological word
families that make up 90% of all texts students will encounter.
Scholastic W.O.R.D. leverages Dr. Hiebert's research
to help students build a solid understanding of these core words
through 10 thematic units, deepening student world knowledge and
reading comprehension. Students strengthen their critical
vocabulary skills as they complete game-based activities, while
educators utilize the Scholastic W.O.R.D. dashboard to
observe individual and class progress and identify opportunities
for additional support.
- Scholastic Literacy Pro (Grades K–6) 2018 EDDIE Award
Winner: Upper Elementary Literacy Skills
Website
Scholastic Literacy Pro is a new management
tool that empowers teachers to provide students with 24/7 access to
over 2,000 fiction and nonfiction ebooks for purposeful independent
reading, in and out of school. Educators can monitor and track
student reading activities, behaviors, and achievements through
real-time reporting, while providing students with a sense of
ownership as they select and read paperback and ebooks that reflect
their personal interests using the Scholastic Literacy
Pro reading recommendation engine.
"Personalized instruction and independent reading are critical
predictors of students' academic success and because of that, it's
more important than ever to provide students with year-round access
to fun and engaging instructional materials that support their
journeys to becoming critical thinkers and avid readers," said
Beth Polcari, President,
Scholastic Magazines Group. "With a new suite of digital resources,
Scholastic is giving educators the power of purposeful,
personalized learning at their fingertips combined with robust
real-time data that helps transform how they approach and inform
daily English language arts instruction at school and with families
at home."
For more information about Scholastic (NASDAQ: SCHL), visit the
Company's media room: http://mediaroom.scholastic.com.
Contact: Brittany
Sullivan, 212-343-4848, bsullivan@scholastic.com
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