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By df

We love Scholastic News! When they arrive about once a week it's a "big-deal-day" in Social Studies in my class, because there's going to be highlighting, interested class discussion, and a little dictionary work. My students
use their highlighters on the words they don't recognize then look them up in the dictionary. (They're getting over their tendency to highlight proper names of people from other countries they don't recognize.) We get a little map work out of Scholastic News also. ("Where in the world did the event take place? Find it on a world map!" For Current Events subjects, I like it better

than a newspaper because I don't have to worry about questionable content like advertisements for tattoo parlors, etc...
Scholastic News is a visual treat complimenting our textbooks and workbooks. I treat it like an enrichment. Being a bit of a geezer, I believe my students have been quite saturated all their young lives with brilliant flashing images. The SN's graphics layout "talks to them" in a more familiar way than their textbook. "Edu-tainment?" Yes, probably. The comprehensive reading challenges on the back page are an effective assessment to see who's just looking at the pictures and who's really reading.
As stated above, it's not a substitute for their textbook but an enhancement for the subject.
Their articles make good prompts for research reports. And the reproducibles are terrific for building a good substitute file. Hope this helps.