Discover how you can help your students develop critical reading, writing, and thinking skills using engaging non-fiction literature lessons. These three videos will explain more about the XTRA Weekly curriculum powered by Exploros.
VIDEO 1: Non-Fiction Literature is Underrepresented in K12 Instruction
VIDEO 1 TRANSCRIPT
As many educators know, non-fiction literature is underrepresented in K12 instruction. We’ve got a solution for you.
Our XTRA Weekly curriculum utilizes real-world articles from Pulitzer prize-winning newspapers.
I’m Drew Schlosberg. I’m the CEO and founder of XTRA Weekly and we’re entering our 19th year providing curriculum to students across the country.
We are so pleased to be partnering for the second year with Exploros. It’s a social instructional platform that assists teachers by staging powerful learning experiences in the face-to-face remote or device enabled classroom. Students can use Chromebooks, iPads, and other common classroom devices to get engaged in these high-interest non-fiction articles from these nationally-recognized newspapers.
All students will have a voice. Everyone is a contributor and everyone will be a collaborator. Students can engage students with interactive activities and reading, writing, and critical thinking. They can continually measure student achievement, progress, and assessment mapped to the learning objective.
Articles and student activities can be translated into more than 200 different languages—enabling the teachers’ diverse population and opportunity, so nobody is left out of the learning process.
We’ll be publishing our first lesson for the 2024-25 school year on September 29th.
We encourage you to go to XTRAWeekly.com/GetStarted for a free teacher trial. It’s based on the articles and the activities that we used last school year—36 lessons that were available to all the teachers and students.
We think you’ll enjoy the product. Have fun.