Welcome

Weekly Reader Express provides subscribers with anytime, anywhere access to an exciting collection of educational material from Weekly Reader classroom magazines for grades 2–12. Students and educators alike can find a wide range of Weekly Reader articles, quizzes, activities, and teacher's guides; teachers can easily access material targeted at a particular age group and match assignments to individual student needs.

Weekly Reader Express Content

Weekly Reader Express delivers more than 22,000 articles and related resources—including teacher's guides, student activities, classroom reproducibles, and quizzes—from the following Weekly Reader classroom magazines:

• Weekly Reader, Edition 2
• WR News, Edition 3
• WR News, Edition 4–6 (Grades 4–6)
• WR ScienceSpin, 2–3 (Grades 2–3)
• WR ScienceSpin, 4–6 (Grades 4–6)
• Career World (Grades 7–12)
• Current Events (Grades 6–10)
• Current Health 1 (Grades 4–7)
• Current Health 2 (Grades 7–12)
• Current Science (Grades 6–10)

WR News, Edition 4; Know Your World Extra (Grades 6–10); and Writing (Grades 6–10) have been combined with other Weekly Reader magazines or discontinued; for your convenience, archived editions of these magazines are available on Weekly Reader Express from September 2000 through their final issue dates. Please note that WR News, Senior Edition is now written and edited for grades 4–6.

Weekly Reader Express content begins with issues from September 2000. New issues are added each week and will appear on their issue date.*

How to Use Weekly Reader Express

Search and Browse

Weekly Reader Express allows you to find articles, classroom-activity reproducibles, and teacher’s-guide content. You may search by entering keywords in the search dialog box at the top of the screen and selecting either “All Editions” or a specific magazine title. You may also browse the most recent issues by selecting “Elementary School Magazines” or “Middle & High School Magazines” from the left navigation bar and then clicking on an edition image.

“Browse by Date” allows you to quickly locate any issue of our magazines from school year 2000–01 to the present.

Using the Advanced Search utility you may also search by keyword; content type (articles, teacher’s guides, and/or classroom reproducibles); issue date; and/or magazine title. Any combination of these search parameters may be used to find content. In addition, you may click on “Search by State Standards” to find articles aligned to your state’s curricular standards.

Each Weekly Reader magazine featured in this database has its own home page. The home pages are accessible by clicking on the magazine titles located on the left side of each page.

Search Results

Search results fall into three main categories: Weekly Reader Articles, Weekly Reader Teacher's Guides, and Weekly Reader Classroom Reproducibles. The most recent search results are listed first and are identified by date, grade(s), and title. Click on the blue "View" links to open the associated assets.

Viewing an Article

When you perform a search or click on a page with content, you will find related links on the right side of the page (if related material is available). For example, if you search for a Weekly Reader article and view the article on the screen, the teacher's guide, classroom reproducibles, and answer key (when available) associated with or related to that article will be listed on the right-hand side of the screen.

E-Mail and Print Functions

You may e-mail or print articles, teacher's-guide content, reproducible activities, and answer keys by clicking on the printer or e-mail envelope icons located on the top of the page.

If you e-mail content to yourself or a co-worker, neither your e-mail address nor the recipient's will be used for any purpose other than to e-mail the content that you specify.

Contact Information

If you have questions about Weekly Reader Express, please contact us.

* Owing to copyright issues, some images and articles from the print editions are not available online.