Exploring Your Issue

Each issue of Scholastic News comes with a wealth of resources, including engaging videos, detailed lesson plans, interactive skill-building activities, and more! 

Finding Your Access Code

To activate your Scholastic News Digital subscription, you'll need your access code. This unique 8-character code can be found on the first page of the Teacher's Guide that is packaged with your issues. 

We also include the access code at the bottom of all of our e-newsletters. 

Your Homepage

When you log in, you’ll come to your teacher homepage. Your latest issue will always be at the top of the page, just one click away:

But take a moment to browse around, and you’ll see all kinds of featured content, like writing toolkits, special themed collections, and our most popular videos.

Now let’s click on the latest issue link to see the digital resources that come with each issue.

This is the issue page, where you’ll find everything you need to teach the issue. At the very top of the issue page, you’ll see the featured video, our Words-to-Know vocabulary slideshow, and our interactive Know the News game. 

Just beneath that, you’ll find links to the most important teaching resources for that issue: 

  • Teacher's Guide
  • a bundled .PDF with all the skill builders and answer key
  • Printable Lower-Level cover story
  • Printable Spanish edition
  • Spanish skill builders
  • Interactive Quiz Whiz

Scroll down and you’ll see all the articles in this issue, along with their associated resources, like videos, Slide Decks, skill builders, and Lesson Plans.

You can also click the Teaching Resources tab to see all of that issue’s resources listed together.