The Juice Learning Company - Standards-Aligned

Invite Standards-aligned Reading Comprehension and Critical Thinking Practice to Your Classroom

After reading our articles, students answer grade-level appropriate critical thinking questions that align with Common Core and state standards for Reading Informational Texts, including those covering: Key Ideas and Details, Craft and Structure, and Integration of Knowledge and Skills.

In 10 – 15 minutes a day studies show a dramatic improvement in reading scores after just 20 issues.

English Language Arts

Standards-aligned Reading Comprehension

After reading a story, students answer a high-order critical thinking assessment that aligns with a grade-level appropriate Common Core or state standards for Reading Informational Text, including standards covering:

Citing evidence and identifying logical inferences
Determining central ideas and themes
Analyzing how individuals, events and ideas develop and interact
Interpreting words and phrases
Analyzing text structure
Assessing point of view
Integrating content from diverse sources
Delineating and evaluating arguments
Analyzing how different texts explore similar themes

In addition, a daily vocabulary exercise builds student understanding of how to clarify the meaning of unknown words or words with multiple meanings.

Social Studies, Science, and Mathematics

Standards focusing on reading and understanding informational/nonfiction text are relevant to other academic subjects, such as social studies, science and even mathematics, just as content taught in those disciplines are vital to understanding the news.This is why, in addition to aligning our quiz questions to reading standards, we tag each story to identify how it fits with other subject-specific standards.

Sample story tags (drawn from the nation’s social studies, science, and math standards) include: