Cross-Curricular Applications
The Juice provides resources to build content area literacy across many subjects. Current events articles pair with core instruction to anchor lessons to the real world.
In addition to ELA, The Juice supports learning in subjects including
History
Geography
Science
Economics
Civics
Health
Social Studies
Math
English Language Arts
The Juice provides students with daily nonfiction content that builds lifelong readers and improves literacy.
Use The Juice to:
- Encourage independent daily reading
- Prepare students for benchmarks or state assessments
- Support research-based information writing
- Pair articles with novels
After reading an article in The Juice, students answer a formative assessment question aligned to Common Core and state standards, focusing on informational text skills like
- Key Ideas and Details
- Craft and Structure
- Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
The Juice’s daily current events and searchable content feature articles, infographics, videos, and Extra Juices that can be used to support the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) Themes or the C3 Standards.
Harness students’ innate curiosity for what is happening in the world, while building content area literacy and civic awareness.
Science
The Juice covers breaking science news, while building background knowledge, academic vocabulary, and reader engagement.
Science educators have access to hundreds of timely science news articles searchable by topic to anchor their units to real events and build informational text skills.
Connect the latest scientific breakthroughs to your science lesson plans.
Educators use The Juice to support MTSS and make data-informed decisions that accelerate reading growth. Formative assessment data collected around student performance helps interventionists decide when, where, and what type of student support is required.
By using The Juice for Tier 1 or Tier 2 interventions, educators can meet each learner’s unique ability level, interests, and needs.
The teacher dashboard provides educators with downloadable reports and real-time actionable data to monitor progress.
The Juice supports English language learners at diverse levels of English proficiency with accessible and relevant content.
Built-in supports such as side-by-side translations and read aloud help build language, fluency and pronunciation.
Take a look at the features in The Juice that support ELL success below.
Differentiated Content at 4 Reading Levels
Translations in Over 70 Languages
Vocabulary Development
Read Aloud Mode
