Exploring Your Issue

From background videos to skill-building activity sheets, Scholastic Art offers a wealth of teaching resources to help you meet your most important instructional goals.

With each subscription, you get:

Print and Digital Editions

Your subscription includes six print magazines sent to your classroom throughout the school year plus access to the digital versions at art.scholastic.com.

Digital Resource Guide

Each issue of Scholastic Art includes a Teacher’s Guide with helpful tools for teaching with the magazine in your classroom. Each issue also includes a set of lesson plans at the grades 7-12 level and a set of lesson plans at the 4-6 level designed to supplement the feature articles. All lesson plans are tailored to the appropriate grade levels.

Skill-Building Activity Sheets

Reinforce skills with our standards-aligned skills sheets, which provide a variety of supports for different learners. They are easy to print or assign through Google Classroom or other learning management systems. For more information about skills sheets, click here

Google Quizzes

In addition to regular skills sheets, Scholastic Art also includes premade Google Quizzes that can be shared directly with your students in Google Classroom. These Google Quizzes are a great way to increase students’ reading comprehension skills and encourage students to think deeply about the text. To learn more about using Google Quizzes, click here.

Answer Key

With each issue, you also receive an answer key. You can find an answer key for all skills sheets on your latest issue page.

Studio Projects

Each issue is accompanied by a secondary-level hands-on project inviting students to experiment with techniques explored in the issue as well as one at the grades 4-6 level. 

Leveled Texts

Every feature article in Scholastic Art is available at two reading levels. Grades 7-12 is available in print and online.  Grades 4-6 is available online. To see the leveled texts, select the article that you want to read. If it’s a feature article, the reading levels available will appear in the toolbar on the left. Choose the preferred level. The text-to-speech tool can also be used to read either level aloud. To learn more, click here.

Background Videos

Instantly capture students’ attention with engaging, ad-free videos that include the option for closed-captioning. Videos with background information make for great prereading activities for building essential knowledge on topics covered in the magazine. Explore our video library.

Standards

Scholastic Art supports national visual and language arts standards, including the 2014 National Core Arts Standards, Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) Standards, Florida Visual Arts Standards, and Common Core State Standards for reading, writing, speaking and listening. For more information, click here. You may also refer to the Teacher’s Guide for specific standards covered in each issue. 

To learn more about how you can make the most of your latest issue, check out a quick video here. 

Make the Most of Your Latest Issue
Explore Scholastic Art in digital format. Check out exciting online features, like videos, slideshows, skills sheets, annotation tools, and interactive stories.