CORE CURRICULUM / GRADES 6–12
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.
Best-in-Class Curriculum
Teach with confidence
StudySync delivers research-driven literacy with integrated texts, writing, and vocabulary to deepen comprehension and prepare students for assessment success.
Reach every learner
Engage every student with rich multimedia, diverse texts, and built-in scaffolds. ELL supports and logic-based, AI-driven feedback personalize learning to help all students grow.
Flexibility to meet your needs
StudySync adapts to your classroom with flexible, standards-aligned pathways, interchangeable print and digital tools, and seamless LMS integration — giving you the freedom to teach your way.
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
Digital Course
Novel Options
And so much more!
The writing process
Extended Writing Projects (EWPs) guide students through the process of writing multi-paragraph essays. Explicit writing instruction guides students through the stages of planning, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing.
Assessments
Self, peer, and teacher evaluations are embedded in every unit lesson to provide teachers a wide variety of short and longer cycle formative assessment options. End-of-unit summative assessments combine progress monitoring tools and targeted lessons for re-teaching and remediation.
Peer review
Our peer review platform creates a community of writers, giving students an authentic audience to provide immediate feedback every time they write. Anonymous peer review helps build 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 designed for middle and high school students
- 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. Our media is carefully designed to amplify student voices, foster collaboration, and elevate the level of academic discourse.
StudySyncTV
What better way to learn how to critically analyze a difficult text than to watch a model of students doing just that? Our StudySyncTV episodes show students how to participate in a critical discussion of literature, support their viewpoints with textual 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 understanding key literary skills. Easily access hundreds of lessons on topics such as plot, theme, character development, tone, setting, and more.
Concept Definitions
Each skill lesson includes a Concept Definition video that defines and breaks down the 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 that 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.
Connecting with Literature Through Technology
Ever-growing resources
Take advantage of StudySync’s vast, ever-growing digital library of 2,300+ classic and contemporary fiction and nonfiction selections. Students and teachers can access a wide array of characters and points of view through in-depth text studies at various levels of complexity. Bring the literature to life with additional video content added throughout the year that helps students see themselves in the materials they read.
StudySync Blasts engage students with world issues
Capture students’ imaginations with short reading and writing assignments addressing real-world topics, from the decline of the honeybee population to the relationship between social media and our social lives. With new topics added daily, Blasts provide a social learning experience that builds reading, writing, and research skills on a platform mediated by teachers.
A responsive platform that keeps evolving
StudySync continuously evolves to meet the changing needs of classrooms, offering new opportunities for instruction, assessment, and student collaboration.
Scaffolds and accessibility to reach every student
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 offer an accessible learning experience for students with disabilities.
You’ve never seen core like this before!
