Scholastic News Weekly Reader

It is no secret that our class loves Friday because that is Scholastic News Weekly Reader!!  We love the interactive aspect of Scholastic News Weekly Reader online.  After searching for text features and new vocabulary, we watch the video and make a few notes about what we know already and what we want to know.  Now is the fun part we let the interactive magazine read to us!  Now it is time to get out the highlighters and do the second read that is more detailed.  Now we are trying to find the main idea and at least 3 details.  We also try to answer what we wanted to learn.  This leads us to some great discussion and google searches to find out more.

Here is the link to the interactive Scholastic News

The students know how to go back and search the back issues and reread.  Please encourage your child to go back and share their favorites with you.  Play the games, discuss the vocabulary and enjoy the videos.  Scholastic News Weekly Reader also has an app for mobile devices and it is FREE!  The app has most of the same features as the web version.  We will move up to the 3rd grade version next fall.