My Weekly Reader Archive
Weekly reader : 60 years of news for kids, 1928-1988. 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. This is the archive of all back issues of My Weekly available online with PressReader. Read archived content using our web or mobile app experiences, choosing between the original print replica or mobile-optimized reading views.
Once a week teachers distributed copies of My Weekly Reader to millions of students in two-thirds of the nation's schools. Students read the 4-8 page educational paper in class or for homework. The articles provided teachers with a springboard for discussion about current events.
Several generations of Americans remember My Weekly Reader as a source of news in the schools. The goal of the four- to eight-page weekly paper, which was distributed via the classroom, was to bring awareness to children of what was happening in the world. 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. Once a week teachers distributed copies of My Weekly Reader to millions of students in two-thirds of the nation's schools.
Students read the 4-8 page educational paper in class or for homework. The articles provided teachers with a springboard for discussion about current events. My favorite memories from grade school involve the anticipation on Fridays waiting for the Weekly Reader to be distributed by the teacher.
Some time it came with books that had been ordered 2 weeks before. My Weekly Reader-5 1966 - 1967: Volume 45, Issue Index. Digitized from IA1641511-03.
Next issue: sim_my-weekly-reader-5_1966-09-14_45_1. The publication was founded as My Weekly Reader in 1928 by educator Elanore Johnson and continued under a succession of owners, including Wesleyan University, Xerox, Readers Digest, and RJ Joe Camel Reynolds.
