Using Magazines in the Classroom

• High interest, engaging articles
• Shorter, manageable chunks of information
• Provides context and background knowledge
• Students practice reading informational text
• Interpersonal communications language skills 
• Focus on text structures and text features
• Students practice close reading
• Expand vocabulary
• Talk and write about informational text
• Textbook supplement
• Media literacy
• Differentiated reading levels
  
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• Quality of literature
• Varying readability levels
• Connection to content areas
• Student interest
• Supplemental materials

• Compare & contrast (ie. fiction/non-fiction)
• Text-to-text connections
• Fact vs. opinion
• Questioning
• Inferring
• Summarizing
• Expand vocabulary
• Comprehension
• Characteristics of informational texts
• Visualizing
• Information writing skills
• Close reading

• Think-Tac-Toe
• Research
• Evaluating information
• Current events
• Letter to the editor
• Question & answer
• Find the fib
• 3-2-1 strategies

The ERC subscribes to high-quality print and digital magazines. Click on the Flipster link to access the following e-magazines. 

The titles include:

• Zoobooks
• Ranger Rick
• The Week Junior
• Smore
• beanz
• Eco Kids Planet
• WILD
• National Geographic Kids
• Sports Illustrated Kids
• Spider
• Muse
• Ask
• Owl
• Scout Life
• Ladybug
• Highlights
• ChickaDEE
• Cricket
• Black Girls Magazine
• BAZOOF!