Early Childhood
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PreK On My Way and PreK On My Way en español are comprehensive, PreK programs that welcome every child into the classroom—along with their individual culture, language, interests, and abilities—building on their strengths as they take the next step on their learning adventure!
Using developmentally appropriate best practices for early childhood learning and education as informed by the Yale Child Study Center, our evidence-based approach was created in partnership with leading researchers and educators from the Children’s Learning Institute (CLI) and the Yale Child Study Center. With the guidance from leaders at the Early Math Collaborative at Erikson Institute, PreK On My Way also celebrates mathematical thinking through everyday experiences.
PreK On My Way features:
This comprehensive PreK program includes:
- Teaching Guides
- Large Group Cards
- Strategy Cards
- Vocabulary Cards
- Read Alouds
- Big Book Read Alouds
- Big Chart of Big Ideas
- Alphabet Cards
- Number Cards
- Response Prompts
- Activity Cards
- Alphabet Books
- Magnetic Letters
- Magnetic Numerals
- Connecting Cubes
- Counters
- Attribute Buttons
- Microphone
- Pattern Blocks
- Geoboards
- Jumbo Tweezers
- Magnifiers
- Classroom Library
- Teacher Hub
- Family Exchange
- Little Ereaders
- Song Collection
- Clifford Plush Puppet
- Equity Sticks
- Scout Pabloe and Lala Stick Puppets
- Implementation Guide
- Teacher Binders
- Theme Posters
- Module Posters
- Mind Builders Poster
- Pocket Chart
- Binder Clips
- Audio Postcards
Cozy Corner
A place to read, share and grow with your youngest learners!
More than just a traditional read-aloud, Cozy Corner's interactive storytime engages and empowers the whole child!
With Cozy Corner you will create a positive classroom environment with high-quality learning experiences that build children’s language, literacy and social-emotional skills to develop school readiness!
Multicultural and developmentally appropriate storytime themes and supports for English Language Learners and children from all cultural and language backgrounds.
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Educators can help children expand their knowledge of feelings with carefully selected read-alouds. Teachers can use read-alouds to introduce children to new vocabulary for expressing emotions and then relate the feelings in stories to classroom themes”
Cozy Corner is designed to help you enrich children's language, literacy and social-emotional development through:
The NEW Cozy Corner features:
- Summaries of the theme
- Book selections
- Conversation prompts
- Extensions for follow-up activities
- Supports for before during and after reading
- ELL supports
- Assessment Support
- Community outreach strategies
- Family letters (in both English and Spanish)
- Research basis
- Pacing options for flexible implementation
- Scope and Sequence for both language and literacy development and social-emotional development
Individual Theme Packs includes:
Early Learning Libraries for Ages 0-3 and 3-5
Engage young readers and develop foundational literacy skills with the best books!
Scholastic Education understands that reading to young children has a lasting effect on language, literacy, and early reading skills. These libraries were specifically created to enhance your theme-based curriculum with complementary high-quality books.
In an effort to further enrich the learning experiences of your students, we have also created Read-Aloud Guides for educators with supports for children at each stage of development across all domains of learning!
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Reading to young children, beginning even in early infancy, has a lasting effect on language, literacy, and early reading skills, and what they’re learning when you read with them has an effect four years later when they’re about to begin elementary school.”
Scholastic Early Learning Libraries offer favorite read-aloud books to be shared with children from birth through age five.
The collections include:
Scholastic EDGE for PreK
An edge up for early readers!
Scholastic EDGE for PreK helps build a deeper understanding of language, letters, and how books work through guided small-group explorations.
At this crucial time in children’s learning, it is important to encourage and challenge students who are eager to read, to foster a lifelong enthusiasm for reading, and to develop the skills they’ll need for kindergarten.
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Many districts have made policy changes designed to promote continuity in children's educational experiences as they progress from preschool through third grade—to provide children with a seamless education that will sustain the gains made in preschool and lead to better developmental and learning outcomes overall.”
Scholastic EDGE for PreK is specifically created for:
Scholastic EDGE for PreK includes:
- 9 Lap Books (3 titles per level)
- 162 Student Readers (9 titles per level - 6 copies each)
- 2 Trade Books
Bookflix
Learning to Read, then Reading to Learn
Thematically paired fiction and nonfiction titles are designed to bridge learning-to-read and reading-to-learn. Animated classic storybooks introduce early learners to the delights of reading while sparking curiosity, creating a natural springboard into the paired nonfiction text for deeper discovery.
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When used together, fiction and nonfiction allow students to read and engage in authentic inquiry into subjects, themes, and ideas in both kinds of texts.”
There are many exciting NEW BookFlix features to enjoy with your students, including:
Scholastic F.I.R.S.T.
Learning to Read Begins with a Single Sound
NEW Scholastic F.I.R.S.T. an Adventure on Ooka Island secures the foundational reading skills needed for students in Grades PreK–2, creating automatic, fluent readers with strong comprehension. With an instructionally robust methodology and highly adaptive technology, Ooka Island actively personalizes each student’s path toward reading proficiency.
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I see the transfer of knowledge happen from my students playing Ooka Island and into our smallgroup instruction, especially in their phonological development and comprehension skills. There’s a big improvement since we started using Ooka Island.”
The essential component for any PreK–2 Literacy Program Ensure student proficiency in phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension during independent learning rotations.
Prepare all students to focus on comprehension and discover the joy of reading!
Contact us to learn more.
1-800-387-1437 x 6855 | [email protected]
Family and Community Engagement programs and resources are designed to provide educators, parents, and community leaders the research-based solutions they need to help all children succeed inside and outside of the classroom!
To learn more about all our Family and Community Engagement programs and resources visit here
School Readiness Kits
Scholastic and the Valley of the Sun United Way have partnered together to facilitate powerful school-to-home connections.
Introducing School Readiness Kits - designed to help students be successful in kindergarten and throughout their education!
The Byron V. Garrett Social-Emotional Learning Collection
Engage your students in social-emotional learning.
The Byron V. Garrett Social-Emotional Learning Collection provides the tools for educators and families to help children develop the social and emotional skills they’ll need to flourish in school, with their peers, and in life.
Early childhood educators need the right professional learning partner to help create the highest-quality instruction for childen. Scholastic has the complete ecosystem of professional learning, books, and curricular resources to meet a school’s or district’s needs.
To schedule Professional Learning Services, please call your local Scholastic Account Executive or our National Office at: 1-800-387-1437
To learn more about our resources for professional development, family and community engagement as well as additional curricular resources check out our Early Childhood e-Catalog!