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STANDARDS

Meet Today’s Most Important Academic Standards

Our authentic texts help students in key reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language domains. We provide essential practice in skills such as decoding and phonics, key details and main idea, comparing two texts, opinion writing, and text features.

Nonfiction features focus on a wide variety of first-grade reading, science, social development, and social studies standards. We feature academic and domain-specific vocabulary, and nurture beginning readers. 

Common Core Standards

Storyworks 1 supports CCSS in key content areas. The range of features in each issue meets multiple strands in the English Language Arts content area of the standards. Click here to learn more.

TEKS Standards

Storyworks 1 supports all seven TEKS strands through listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking activities. Click here to learn more.

Florida B.E.S.T. Standards

Storyworks 1 supports the four B.E.S.T. strands—foundational skills, reading, communication, and vocabulary—and helps students meet standards and benchmarks. Click here to learn more.

Virginia Standards of Learning

Storyworks 1 supports all sections of Virginia’s English Standards of Learning and helps students build knowledge, vocabulary, and literacy skills. Click here to learn more.

CALENDAR

Support Your Growing Readers All Year Long 

2024–2025 Planning Calendar

Here's a sneak peek at some of the exciting stories we've planned for 2024–2025. Each one comes with instructional resources that support your first-grade readers.

Plus, each Storyworks 1 issue asks an essential question. Reading, discussing, and making text-to-text connections among these stories gives kids deep insight into the question and allows them to build knowledge by synthesizing information. 

Here's a detailed look at some of our more recent 2023 stories.

BLENDED LEARNING

Engage Every Student with Flexible Digital + Print Resources

 

Multiple Text Types

Every issue of Storyworks 1 contains a wealth of reading experiences you won’t find anywhere else. Every issue includes nonfiction, fiction, paired texts, mini graphic novels, and poems—many on a single theme.

 

Vocabulary

Academic and domain-specific words are defined on the page. Slideshows highlight key vocabulary words and include pronunciation, images, and definitions. Printable activities emphasize learning in context.

 

Videos

Real-world videos and video read-alouds build background knowledge and spark student curiosity and excitement.


 

 

Activities and Quizzes

Measure comprehension with colorful, bright vocabulary builders and grammar activities that make kids smile!

TEACHING SUPPORT

Save Prep Time with Comprehensive Teaching Support

Each print issue comes with a comprehensive guide and teaching support that includes:

  • Step-by-step lesson plans with instructions for before, during, and after reading
  • Implementation suggestions to build key reading and critical thinking skills
  • Content-area connections to SEL and social studies topics
  • Tips for making articles more accessible for English language learners
  • Extension ideas to inspire students to take their learning further
  • ELA standards correlations for each article

Family Engagement Letters

Available in English and Spanish: bridge the school-to-home connection, offering tips and ideas for sharing the articles and resources at home.

Click to view English.

Click to view Spanish.

Pacing Guide

Whether you are using Storyworks 1 as a core product or as an ELA supplement, we've created a guide to help you flexibly plan your year. Click here to view.

FUNDING SUPPORT

Need help funding your subscription? Use these documents to request funds through your school, your PTA/PTO, Title 1 program, and even crowdfunding sites like DonorsChoose! 

Be sure to attach our standards alignment documents (Common Core or TEKS) to your letters to inform funders of the value that Storyworks 1 adds to your classroom.

 

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PTO/PTA Funding

Use this letter to request funding from your parent-teacher group

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Crowdfunding (like DonorsChoose)

Get step-by-step directions on creating a request

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Principal Funding

This letter outlines for your principal all of the details and benefits of a Storyworks 1 subscription

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Federal Funding/Title 1

See exactly how Storyworks 1 supports Title 1 program goals

READING AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

Build the Knowledge and Skills Your Students Need Most 

Storyworks 1 gives you everything you need to build core language arts skills—no matter what your scope and sequence. View the Skills List.

Storyworks 1 provides critical word-recognition and language-comprehension instruction that helps develop knowledgeable readers as outlined in the Science of Reading.

 

Our Skills Sheets and Quizzes feature activities to support core ELA skills—the ones that will best aid your students in reading comprehension and vocabulary. 


 

 

Pause and Think questions embedded in our nonfiction stories are quick comprehension checks to ensure that students understand the basic meaning of the text.

 

Think and Read boxes set a purpose for reading and prompt students to focus on one key reading skill per story. These connect to our Think and Write boxes at the end of each story, which ask students to respond to a question related to the skill focus.

 

In-Magazine Activities help students hone vocabulary, grammar, and paragraph-writing skills—and have fun while doing it.