Navigating solutions to the nine most common classroom library gaps is easy. We know the demands of achieving Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) can be a source of ongoing pressure, and we want to help. Regardless of the kind of program you’ve implemented, Scholastic Classroom Books has materials that are sure to meet your specific needs. We can help you meet Access to Print requirements and fulfill your AYP and program goals. Our products meet the most pressing needs in classrooms today. Click on the tabs below to find products to fill the most common gaps found in today’s classroom libraries.
Encourage students to "ACT GREEN" with these carefully selected 10-book collections that educate students about the environmental issues that impact our planet.
New Low Price! 24 books for $69! Original Books and Independent Reading Activities That Bring Science and Social Studies to Life! Brain Bank, an independent reading program for Grades K-5, opens the vault to vocabulary, critical thinking, and content areas skills. These enticing science and social studies titles motivate students to read and ensure future success.
Brain Bank Guided Reading supports content-area curriculum with social studies and science books, and supplements Guided Reading instruction with teaching materials for each title.
Save 15% on any Grade-Level Set! Order by 11/30/09. Motivate ALL of your students with an enormous range of outstanding leveled books! Every title is supported with effective teaching strategies to help all children become independent readers who love to read.
Buy a complete set and save $199, plus get a FREE 50-book collection! Offer valid through 11/30/09. The Investigators series is a unique set of Science readers and inquiry-based instruction for the 21st Century classroom that features interactive Whiteboard technology for grade K-3+.
Enrich your core reading program with Lesson Connections, featuring "just-right" leveled text, including fiction and nonfiction, classics, and award winning favorites. Lesson Connections link to the comprehension strands of the scope and sequences of the following core reading programs: Open Court Reading, Harcourt - Trophies, Houghton Mifflin Reading, and Scott Foresman Reading.
Expand content area knowledge and vocabulary with new leveled collections! Organized by Lexile level, each of these 20-book collections builds on the success of our popular Lexile Leveled Libraries with age-appropriate content area trade books that students at different reading levels can read successfully and enjoy.
Organized by Lexile level, each of these 20 book collections builds on the success of our popular Lexile Leveled Libraries I with new selections of contemporary, classic and award winning trade books, both fiction and nonfiction.
Order Now and SAVE over 25% off list price and receive a FREE 15 book pack—a $70 value! Lexile Packs include 60 books: 20 titles each from Lexile Leveled Libraries I, II, and Lexile Leveled Content Areas.
Save $50 on any library! Order by 11/30/09. Introduce students to informational text with teacher-directed lessons written by researcher and informational text expert Nell K. Duke.
Students will learn something new every day with ReadAbout: Content Area Libraries, and will practice key nonfiction comprehension skills as they extract meaning from nonfiction text. Designed for both language arts and content area classrooms, ReadAbout: Content Area Libraries include popular informational books and explicit instruction in reading expository texts.
Build your nonfiction collection from the ground up with convenient, cost-effective nonfiction classroom library collections. Used for independent reading, these collections support social studies and science, develop essential vocabulary and background knowledge, and serve as a valuable resource for research projects.
Save 30% on any collection! Order by 11/30/09. 24/7: Science Behind the Scenes features informative, content-rich titles for students reading slightly below level. Each book is presented in an accessible, easy-to-read format featuring real-life case studies, photographs, and captivating storytelling.
Shockwave is a series of informative, high-interest books that make reading across the content areas accessible for all students, including striving and reluctant readers.
Save 20%! Order by 11/30/09. From snakes and spies to ancient sites, students in grades 6-12 will enjoy the compelling content of this 100-book collection. Whether the topic is science, social studies, or the arts, each title will help students to improve literacy with inquiry-based learning. The instructional resources were developed with academic advisor Dr. Jeffrey Wilhelm, an expert on adolescent literacy.
State standards increasingly expect students to be able to read, write, and learn from nonfiction books and current estimates show that fifty percent to eighty percent of the reading passages in standardized tests are nonfiction. A lack of nonfiction is the most common deficit in classroom libraries. They should consist of forty to sixty percent nonfiction books, including a variety of genres such as biographies and autobiographies, history, reference and informational texts, that will give students the experience they need to succeed in an information age.
