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STANDARDS

An assortment of Scope magazine spreads

Meet Today's Challenging Standards

Scope is designed to meet today's most challenging English language arts standards. With every issue, you will receive grade-level correlations for each article and story.

Common Core and Similar State Standards (CCSS)

A comprehensive breakdown of how Scope supports Common Core ELA standards for Writing, Reading, Speaking and Listening, and Language for grades 6 to 8

TEKS Standards

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

Florida B.E.S.T. Standards

Scope supports the three B.E.S.T. strands—reading, communication, and vocabulary—and helps students meet standards and benchmarks. Click here to learn more.

CALENDAR

Achieve Your Teaching Goals All Year Long 

2024–2025 Planning Calendar

Here’s a quick look at some of the outstanding stories we have planned for 2024–2025. Each one comes with a powerful suite of standards-based instructional materials that support your most important teaching objectives.  

BLENDED LEARNING

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

 

Lower-Lexile® Articles

Every narrative nonfiction article is available in a lower Lexile level, so you can share Scope with all your readers.

 

Audio

We offer an audio read-aloud of every major Scope feature. Great for differentiation, fluency, listening comprehension, engagement, and more!

 

Skills Sheets

More than 60 differentiated skill-based activity sheets and quizzes are provided with each issue, so you can set your own skill priorities and customize your instruction. 

 

Videos

Scope's award-winning videos engage students, build knowledge and visual literacy skills, and set a purpose for reading. 

 

Vocabulary Slideshows

These interactive slideshows unlock challenging words from Scope stories. Great for ELLs and visual learners!

 

Family Engagement Letters

These letters foster the school-to-home connection, offering tips and ideas for sharing articles and resources at home (available in English and Spanish).

TEACHING SUPPORT

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Make Lesson Prep Joyful and Easy

Timesaving Teacher's Guides and Support with every issue include:

  • Step-by-step lesson plans with instructions for before, during, and after reading
  • Close-reading and critical-thinking questions to deepen comprehension and promote meaningful (and lively!) discussion
  • Differentiated performance tasks to enable you to tailor instruction to the needs and interests of all your learners
  • Essential Questions to encourage deeper, more critical thinking

Special Resources Serve You All Year

Pacing Guides help you plan your year of Scope within your individual needs and priorities. 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 Donors Choose! 

Be sure to attach to your letters our Pacing Guide and Standards Alignment Documents to inform funders the value that Scope 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 Donors Choose)

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 Scope subscription

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Federal Funding/Title 1

See exactly how Scope supports Title 1 program goals

SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

Build the Knowledge and Skills Your Students Need Most

Scope gives you everything you need to build and reinforce the most important important language arts skills—no matter what your scope and sequence. 

View the PDF Skills List.

Every issue of Scope is packed with skill-building resources!

  • Thrilling articles, stories, plays, and other multigenre content inspire, challenge, and build knowledge.
  • As You Read prompts set a purpose for reading.
  • Writing contests help students practice a range of writing tasks — including explanatory-argument and narrative writing — and receive recognition for their work.
  • Grammar and editing activities target the skills students need to be effective and confident writers and speakers.
  • Vocabulary activities unlock challenging academic and domain-specific words.
  • The Core Skills Workout helps your students "bulk up" in the skills they need to become strong, analytical readers. This popular series of skill-based activities will support your reading program no matter what your scope and sequence.
  • Quizzes that mirror PARCC, Smarter Balanced, and other high-stakes assessments build test-taking stamina and confidence while reinforcing key ELA skills.
  • And SO MUCH more!