Scholastic puts out a magazine called "Storyworks" that I have used and quite like. It is lengthier than Scholastic News and comes every other month, if I am remembering correctly.. I order one class set and kids share (I have two classes in fifth grade). I didn't order them last year and was able to reuse articles again from the year before. I like the magazine because it has poetry, grammar, paragraph writing, nonfiction articles, fiction stories, and reader's theater. I use them for modeling and for independent student work.
Our school nurse orders a kids' health magazine, whose name escapes me at the moment. This is filled with short nonfiction articles focusing on health issues, all are very topical. That is another good one that I have used comfortably with my 10 and 11 year old students. If you want, I can find out the title, as I know I still have some at school. Maura 5/NJ ----- Original Message ----- From: jvma...@comcast.net To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <mosaic@literacyworkshop.org> Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 10:26:39 AM Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Magazines I've bounced around for years on the topic of magazines, from individual to class sets. I've subscribed to Nat'l Geo for Kids, SI for Kids, Ranger Rick--and often found kids 'read' only the pictures. So I let the subscriptions lapse. We chose a class set of Nat'l Geo Explorer for the last few years; it's visually stunning and has excellent and engaging articles--but the articles are long. To use them for modeling and groupwork was tough because of their length (and the kids wanted to read to the end). I tested 1 issue of Scholastic News last year and it actually was better: short articles but still appealing to kids--and I could easily model with them (and SN is what Harvey and Goudvis used for Strategies That Work). So I'm going with a class set of Scholastic News this year and keeping my fingers crossed. I get lots of good articles elsewhere (newspapers, magazines, Comprehension Toolkit, etc.) but I don't want to spend time/paper running off copies for the kids, so I'm going to try Scholastic News this year. We'll see. Judy _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
