The Mini Read is a short, high-interest nonfiction article that “warms up kids’ reading muscles” and also builds knowledge. Each Mini Read has a showstopping photo and nonfiction text features. 

Skills covered in lesson plans and skill sheets: Comprehension, key details, grammar/punctuation

Our Big Read is a work of fascinating narrative nonfiction that brings important topics to life. Each article explores a highly engaging subject connected to social studies and science standards, making nonfiction feel like a story. Big Reads are rich with text features—including maps, headlines, and captions—and are paired with a background-building video to support comprehension.

Skills covered in lesson plans and skill sheets: Comprehension text features, main idea, text structure, summarizing, vocabulary

Storyworks Fiction connects with kids through relatable experiences such as friendships and school. Students read genres such as realistic fiction, folktales, and fairy tales. Each text is paired with an ELA video focused on either the genre itself or an essential literary concept, such as plot or character traits. 

Skills covered in lesson plans and skill sheets: Comprehension, plot, character, setting, genre, problem/solution

This is a short nonfiction text paired with the fiction story. It often explores a real-world topic or group of facts connected to an element in the fiction, giving students an engaging way to compare and contrast fiction and nonfiction texts.

Skills covered in lesson plans and skill sheets: Comprehension, fiction/nonfiction

This short nonfiction text tackles the social studies standard of how things change over time. Students read about the history of things that are familiar in their everyday lives such as erasers, ice cream, and sneakers. Each article includes a timeline text feature.

Skills covered in lesson plans and skill sheets: Comprehension, sequencing

Each debate explores a fun, age-appropriate topic that kids will love. Students learn that every issue has more than one point of view and that strong opinions should be supported with reasons and evidence. Each debate also includes an opinion-writing activity.

Skills covered in lesson plans and skill sheets: Opinion writing

Alike and Different is a delightful short article that compares and contrasts two engaging nonfiction topics, such as chocolate and vanilla, elephant ears and human ears, and the biggest and smallest animals. 

Skills covered in lesson plans and skill sheets: Compare/contrast

These delightful stories feature the popular Pine School Pals characters—second-graders who face everyday conflicts and learn to work through them together. In fun and relatable ways, the stories model conflict resolution, social skills, and important life lessons while supporting the second-grade Point of View standard. (These stories will also be available in book form in September 2026.)

Skills covered in lesson plans and skill sheets: Point of view

The poems introduce students to poetry standards like rhyme, rhythm, and repetition. Many of the poems are also interactive. The short, funny poems make great texts for fluency reading practice.

Skills covered in lesson plans and skill sheets: Elements of poetry