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Weekly Reader was a weekly educational classroom magazine designed for children. It began in 1928 as My Weekly Reader.Editions covered curriculum themes in the younger grade levels and news-based, current events and curriculum themed-issues in older grade levels.
It covered high school sports and social activities; the four-page magazine debuted on October 22, 1920, and was distributed in 50 high schools. [3] More magazines followed for Scholastic Magazines. [3] [4] In 1948, Scholastic entered the book club business. [5] In the 1960s, scholastic international publishing locations were added in England ...
Workbooks are paperback textbooks issued to students. [1] [2] [3] Workbooks are usually filled with practice problems, with empty space so that the answers can be written directly in the book. More recently, electronic workbooks have permitted interactive and customized learning. Such workbooks may be used on computers, laptops, PDAs, and may ...
Dynamite was a magazine for children founded by Jenette Kahn and published by Scholastic Inc. from 1974 until 1992. The magazine changed the fortunes of the company, becoming the most successful publication in its history [1] and inspiring four similar periodicals for Scholastic, Bananas, Wow, Hot Dog! and Peanut Butter.
Answers was a British weekly [1] paper founded in 1888 by Alfred Harmsworth (later Lord Northcliffe). Originally titled Answers to Correspondents , before being shortened soon after, it initially consisted largely of answers to reader-submitted questions, [ 1 ] along with articles on miscellaneous topics, jokes, and serialized literature.
Look and Learn was a British weekly educational magazine for children published by Fleetway Publications Ltd from 1962 until 1982. It contained educational text articles that covered a wide variety of topics from volcanoes to the Loch Ness Monster; a long running science fiction comic strip, The Trigan Empire; adaptations of famous works of literature into comic-strip form, such as Lorna Doone ...
Between 2001 and 2002, advertising income at the magazine tripled to $1.5 million. [4] However, by early 2003, the production costs of the magazine overwhelmed the revenues, forcing Book and Barnes & Noble to restructure the partnership: [4] Barnes and Noble gave Book a $2.5 million loan in 2001, [3] and in 2002 the magazine lost about $1 ...
READ Magazine was a children's classroom magazine for grades 6–10, published by Weekly Reader Corporation. [1] It included a mix of classic and contemporary fiction and nonfiction, including plays, personal narratives, poetry, and more to help build reading comprehension and verbal skills. The headquarters was in Delran, New Jersey. [2]