Digital Products
Weekly Reader built its reputation as a publisher of print magazines, but did you know that we are also the publisher of a diverse range of digital products? Weekly Reader editors and developers have created a suite of digital products designed to work in the 21st-century schoolhouse—everything from magazine-based content to digital learning modules to literacy products that support reading comprehension and build critical thinking skills. Come see how Weekly Reader can help you integrate technology into classroom instruction, student research, and more.
Interactive Sci-Triv™ Games
NEW for 2011-12! Sci-Triv™ games are an exciting recent addition to our line of digital classroom products. These online quiz games for grades 6-10 build science literacy using a lively game-show format and standards-based content.
Sci-Triv keeps score, lets students play independently or in teams, and every game includes questions that cover all the main branches of science: Earth, life, health and physical sciences (plus math and an exciting mystery category). With fact-filled answer screens, sound effects, animation and more, Sci-Triv will make your science class everyone’s favorite.
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Themed Web Sites
Our exclusive Themed Web Sites are interactive, multimedia educational experiences original to the Web, taking advantage of the power of that platform to bring information to life through the rich use of sound and image. Each site is organized around a theme—the US. Constitution, our planet's changing climate, a famous author—and contains video, interactive games, timelines, Web links, and more. Teachers get an informative eight-page Teacher's Guide for each site, with tips on how best to use these materials with their students. The Teacher's Guide provides educators with grade-appropriate lessons and compelling questions designed to spark classroom discussion. Best of all, these instructive and entertaining Themed Web Sites can be used both in class and out as sources of information for reports and other assignments—or purely for the enjoyment they bring to learning.
Digital Editions
Digital Editions are enhanced, interactive issues of Weekly Reader magazines, integrating the familiar page layout of our print editions with cutting-edge technology such as sound, video, and animation. The resulting online publications create a rich and immediate learning environment filled with age-appropriate, compelling multimedia offerings that will motivate kids to read, write, and learn.
Among the regular features of the Digital Editions are:
- Embedded video and audio clips that add depth to the learning experience
- Easy access to prereading vocabulary and discussion questions
- "Read aloud" functionality for language learning
- "Pop-up" vocabulary designed to boost reading comprehension
- Special zoom-tools to prompt classroom discussion
- Slide shows, animated learning activities, and more
Learn more about Digital Editions
Weekly Reader Online Archives
Subscribers to print editions of Weekly Reader classroom magazines receive unlimited access to our digital archives at no additional charge. Browse over 11,000 articles by edition date or search by topic, Lexile® level, or state curricular standard to find the information you need. To access the archives, simply click on the Archives link on our home page, or through the Subscriber-Only Content link in our Elementary Resources or Secondary Resources drop-down menus.
Weekly Reader Express
Weekly Reader has partnered with netTrekker, the #1 educational search tool for K–12 schools, to make the entire Weekly Reader digital archive, over nine years' worth of articles from our classroom magazines, available on the netTrekker platform. Weekly Reader Express combines the best of Weekly Reader content with the robust metadata and search functionality of netTrekker d.i. to promote literacy skills, develop critical thinking, and help teachers with lesson planning and homework assignments. Adding Weekly Reader Express to your netTrekker subscription offers your school and district an additional 11,000 + K-12 resources, all conveniently delivered through your netTrekker search results.
For more information contact your netTrekker sales representative or visit www.nettrekker.com.
Weekly Reader Connect
Weekly Reader Connect is an innovative online reading program for grades K-6. This exciting product brings timely, high-interest, nonfiction material—enlivened by engaging multimedia and a research-based, leveled reading-comprehension frame—to every classroom. The result? Rapidly delivered Web-based content that thrills children and provides educators with tools to develop crucial comprehension skills.
Throughout the school year, Connect delivers Weekly Reader's award-winning nonfiction content in short, themed-based, online "issues" that include live-action video, animation, and audio clips. The naturally engaging material is accompanied by grade-specific lessons and assessments designed to help educators build reading proficiency using the Concepts of Comprehension©, a series of twenty-one inferential thinking skills fundamental to understanding what one reads.
Weekly Reader Connect is available as a school-wide subscription, with special pricing available for district and consortial sales.
