CORE CURRICULUM / GRADES 6–12
Bring literature to life
Welcome to StudySync®
Grounded in the latest literacy and learning science, StudySync is a complete English language arts (ELA) curriculum that helps every teacher reach every learner.
Updated daily and centered around text-based knowledge building, integrated writing, and flexible delivery models, StudySync allows educators to teach with confidence. A robust text library and powerful student differentiation ensure all students see themselves in the reading and develop a love of literature.
Program Components
Easily deliver strong ELA instruction with a complete suite of print and digital resources to support you and each learner in your classroom.
Print Student Edition
Two-volume Print Teacher Edition
Robust Student and Teacher Digital Course
Novel Options
StudySync provides an unmatched library of literature and nonfiction titles
Explicit writing instruction
Extended Writing Projects (EWPs) guide students through the process of writing multi-paragraph essays. A combination of writing process lessons and skills lessons provide explicit instruction for each stage of writing: planning, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing.
Assessments
Teacher, peer, and self-evaluations are embedded in every unit lesson to provide teachers with a wide variety of short and longer cycle formative assessment options. End-of-unit summative assessments combine progress monitoring tools and targeted lessons for reteaching and remediation to meet the needs of all learners.
Peer review
Give students an authentic audience to provide immediate writing feedback with StudySync’s peer review platform. Anonymous peer review helps nurture students into skilled writers and critical thinkers.
Evidence-Based Instruction for Grades 6–12
StudySync brings the science of reading to life with routines that build knowledge, deepen comprehension, strengthen academic language, and develop confident, analytical readers. Through close reading, vocabulary, fluency, and embedded science of learning practices, students learn to navigate complex texts with confidence every day.
How StudySync supports evidence-based learning:
- Close reading: structured routines to build meaning and mastery of skills
- Knowledge building: texts and background supports that expand understanding
- Vocabulary: academic and content word study for teens
- Fluency: benchmarks and practice to build confident readers
- Science of learning: spaced practice, modeling, and feedback built into instruction
Unparalleled Media
Consuming media in the classroom is never a passive pursuit. StudySync’s media is carefully designed to amplify student voices, foster collaboration, and elevate the level of academic discourse.
StudySyncTV
StudySyncTV episodes show students how to participate in a critical discussion of literature, support their viewpoint with text evidence, and skillfully use academic vocabulary — all while collaborating with their peers.
SkillsTV
Using peer-to-peer instruction, SkillsTV episodes provide an explanation and a model for key literary skills, including plot, theme, character development, tone, setting, and more.
Concept Definitions
Each skills lesson includes a Concept Definition video where students define and break down the key components of a skill or strategy, putting student voices front and center to introduce key concept vocabulary. These videos always feature a cast of students who reflect and inspire classroom audiences.
Previews
Watch how StudySync’s movie-like Previews open the doors to great literature by providing context and intrigue to diverse texts from all genres.
Connect with Literature Through Technology
Ever-growing resources
Take advantage of StudySync’s vast, ever-growing digital library of 1,000+ classic and contemporary fiction and nonfiction selections. Students and teachers can access a wide array of characters and points of view through in-depth studies of texts at various levels of complexity — alongside video content that helps students see themselves in the materials they read and brings literature to life.
StudySync Blasts engage students with world issues
Capture students’ imaginations with short read and write assignments addressing real-world topics — with new topics added daily. Whether the topic is the relationship between social media and social lives or the decline of the honeybee population, Blasts provide a social learning experience that builds reading, writing, and research skills on a platform mediated by teachers.
Continually evolving, responsive platform
Technology is ever-evolving, with constant improvements and updates. Similarly, StudySync regularly offers new opportunities for better instruction, assessment, and student collaboration directly to educators.
Scaffolds and accessibility to reach each learner
StudySync sets the standard for differentiation with scaffolds that allow each student in a class to work on the same assignment with appropriate support. StudySync’s high-contrast interface, screen-reader compatibility, and support for mouse-free use offers an accessible learning experience for students with disabilities.
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