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The Teacher Store: Shop Online for the Best in Teaching Resources

Browse Scholastic's online Scholastic Teacher Store for a huge assortment of classroom and professional development materials. Low prices, special promotions, and dollar deals make it easy for you to stock up on resources that will make your first year of teaching easier.

Classroom Magazines: Kid-Friendly News That Connects to Your Curriculum

Build enthusiasm for reading and learning about current events with Scholastic Classroom Magazines. Scholastic's 32 educational magazines for grades K–12 include timely articles, engaging fiction and nonfiction reading selections, and skill-building activities in key content areas. Accompanying teacher's editions offer lesson plans, reproducibles, and discussion ideas that will save you time and boost academic success.

Printables: Affordable Access to 10,000+ Printables for All Grades and Subjects

An online subscription to Scholastic Printables puts a ready supply of 10,000+ reproducible lesson plans, worksheets, and clip art images at your fingertips for less than $1 per week. Reach every child in your class with Leveled Learning Packs in reading and math. Create and store your own printables with Make-Your-Own tools and a virtual File Cabinet.

Teaching Resources: Instructional Support and Professional Guidance From Leading Experts

Turn to the wealth of educational materials developed by Scholastic Teaching Resources for advice and inspiration on instructional strategies, best practices, and lesson planning. We've tapped the expertise of outstanding teachers, staff developers, and coaches to create a wide range of books, DVDs, study guides, web downloads and other resources that will enhance your teaching skills.
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Classroom Books: Reaching Out to Help You Plan Your Classroom Library

Choosing an appealing, balanced mix of high-quality books for your curriculum and your classroom library is easy with Scholastic Classroom Books. Whether you need individual titles, pre-assembled collections, or a completely packaged library, Classroom Books offers solutions that will foster a love of reading.

Teacher Book Wizard: The Quickest Way to Create and Share Booklists

Use our database of more than 50,000 children's books from all publishers to create booklists, recommend good reads, and identify titles that connect to themes and lessons. Teacher Book Wizard is the ultimate book search engine with speedy searching by key words, topic, theme, genre, reading level, and book type, as well as author and title. Check out other teachers' booklists and post your own!

Scholastic Book Clubs: Great Books at Great Values

Earn points toward free books and software for your new classroom when students order books from one of eight Scholastic Book Clubs. We have clubs for grades K–8. Students pick from a wide selection of high-quality, teacher-approved books at prices families can afford. Getting started is easy and the points add up fast!

Scholastic Book Fairs: Raising Money and Excitement for Reading

Bring your school community together to celebrate reading, promote literacy, and raise funds for school activities with a Scholastic Book Fair. Use Classroom Wish List to let families know which Book Fair products you would love to have in your classroom library. Create enthusiasm for writing and illustrating books with our Kids Are Authors competition and the Klutz Build-a-Book program.

School Jobs Now: Career Resources and Job Opportunities at Your Fingertips

Tap into the largest national database of jobs in education with School Jobs Now. Whether you're looking for your first teaching job, polishing up your resume, or curious about salaries in different parts of the country, School Jobs Now has the career resources and information you need to keep your professional life on the fast track.

Class Homepage Builder: Hassle-Free Way to Connect With Students, Parents 24/7

Got three minutes? That's all it takes to set up a home page with Scholastic's free Class Homepage Builder tool. You can use your home page to communicate with students and parents, post homework assignments and study aids, recommend books, showcase students' work, and share class news, photos, and even videos. The Class Homepage builder is easy to use and accessible 24/7.

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Teachers.com: Online Marketplace for Teacher-Created Materials

Modeled on eBay, TeachersPayTeachers.com is Scholastic's online marketplace for educators. It's the place to go to buy and sell original lesson and unit plans, teaching guides, PowerPoint presentations, tests and other curriculum-related materials. Bargain hunt for the best in teacher-created materials and earn yourself some extra money when you have exemplary materials of your own to sell!

Scholastic Education: Closing Gaps With Technological Solutions

Look to Scholastic Education to help you deliver differentiated instruction that engages and empowers your struggling students to succeed. Scholastic Education, the creator of Read 180, is your partner in closing the gaps in education. Our adaptive technology solutions include intervention in reading and math, assessment tools, data management, and professional development for pre-kindergarten through high school.

Lectorum: Supportive and Engaging Materials for ELL and SSL Education

If you teach English Language Learners (ELL) or Spanish as a Second language (SSL), Lectorum has a team of experts on hand to help you match books in Spanish to your curriculum needs. With more than 25,000 titles in Spanish, there is an outstanding selection of materials to excite your students and help you conduct lessons in a dual-language classroom.

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Energize your teaching without spending hours searching for educational materials! Scholastic.com is the premier free Web site for teachers and students. Whether you need helpful advice from grade-level mentors, creative lesson-planning ideas, teaching tools, printables, or exciting multimedia resources, you can rely on Scholastic.com to come through for you.

Instructor: America's Favorite Teacher Magazine

Looking for a dependable source of innovative ideas and activities to keep your K–8 classroom energized? Every issue of Scholastic's Instructor magazine is packed with teacher-tested tips and classroom management strategies that will have you teaching like a seasoned pro in no time at all. Plenty of career and professional development advice too!