Scholar Zone Extended Learning | Grades K–8

Elevate Student Performance During Extended Day

Scholastic Scholar Zone Extended Learning Powered by Arly is an easy-to-use extended-day curriculum proven to raise outcomes in reading and math and guaranteed to keep students engaged.

Scholar Zone Extended Learning  | Grades K–8

Elevate Student Performance During Extended Day

Scholastic Scholar Zone Extended Learning Powered by BellXcel is an easy-to-use extended day curriculum proven to raise outcomes in reading and math and guaranteed to keep students engaged.

Strong Evidence for Exceptional Gains

Arly’s evidence-base meets ESSA's highest tier of evidence (Tier 1). Rigorous third-party studies show that Scholar Zone can increase reading and math gains by up to 2.5 months.

“The Scholar Zone Extended Learning curriculum has been such a great tool for our after-school program . . . in the last 8 months, we have had more than half of the students in our program score 1–3 grade levels higher than their initial test scores! We loved this curriculum so much that we extended it to our summer program!”

Think Outside the School Day

Looking for innovative solutions to elevate student outcomes? Evidence shows that extended-day programs like Scholar Zone are exactly the kind of outside the box thinking that leads to greater academic growth and progress.

 Easy to Use

With scripted lesson plans and a highly structured scope and sequence, Scholar Zone Extended Learning is an easy-to-implement curriculum with hard-to-beat results.

Robust Curriculum

Encourage literacy skills development and expand mathematical thinking with an engaging curriculum grounded in research.

Proven to Work

Third-party evaluations prove that Scholar Zone Extended Learning delivers positive, consistent impact for youth, families, and educators.

Engaging

Exciting Scholastic books, texts, and activities ensure your scholars are in the zone during extended learning time.

Enriching

An optional enrichment curriculum fosters well-being and strengthens life skills with engaging activities that positively shape your program’s culture.

Encourage Literacy Skills Development and Deepen Knowledge

Scholar Zone Extended Learning's reading and ELA curriculums build literacy skills through a flexible, easy-to-implement curriculum.

  • Engage scholars and improve fluency with short, captivating fiction and nonfiction texts.
  • Enhance comprehension with read-aloud texts, building background knowledge and fostering connections with a wide range of content.
  • Deepen knowledge by exploring cross-content magazine articles and encourage discussions that strengthen speaking and listening skills.
  • Interact with texts through drawing, writing, creating, and engaging in prompted discussions and debates.
  • Support facilitators with coaching strategies, planning and pacing, teacher notes, instructions, and answer keys for every session.

A Math Curriculum You Can Count On

Our math curriculum is aligned to core concepts that scaffold and recur from kindergarten to Grade 8. 

  • Encourage critical thinking through solving and analyzing real-world problems.
  • Engage scholars with interactive math activities.
  • Connect scholars with real-world math through magazines and short texts related to STEAM subjects.
  • Enhance math skills, knowledge, and understanding with informative graphics.
  • Support facilitators with coaching strategies, planning and pacing, teacher notes, instructions, and more.

See the Impact

Explore the results of Scholar Zone in randomized controlled trials, third-party evaluations, and rigorous internal studies.

Arly Evidence Summary

An evaluation and review of research by internal and external third parties.

Explore the Program

Scholar Zone Extended Learning Powered by Arly brings together all the tools you need to run a successful program, including online program management and an engaging curriculum for reading/ELA, math, or both subject areas.

Teacher Instruction

Robust teacher resources support facilitators in planning, pacing, and instruction to ensure program implementation with fidelity.

Student Workbooks

Student workbooks include materials to encourage literacy skills development or expand mathematical thinking.

Books and Materials

A wealth of engaging fiction and nonfiction books, magazine articles, and activities support instruction and learning.

Digital Program Management

Get analytics and reporting, communicate with families, and reference all your digital resources with Arly's program management solution.

Professional Learning

Asynchronous self-paced professional learning modules improve teachers' proficiency to deliver high-quality instruction.

Enrichment Curriculum

Expand learning opportunities with Explorers by Arly. This optional digital enrichment curriculum fosters exploration, life skills, and a positive program environment.

  • The elementary curriculum focuses on understanding and practicing life skills through fun activities.
  • The middle school curriculum emphasizes leadership to foster responsibility, capability, and understanding others.

Keep the Achievement Going This Summer

Extend your Scholar Zone experience with Reading/Writing and Math summer curricula for 4 to 8 weeks of instruction.

Scholar Zone Summer Reading & Writing

Grounded in the latest in learning science, Scholar Zone Summer provides effective, high-quality literacy instruction.

Scholar Zone Summer Math

Aligned to core mathematical concepts, Scholar Zone Summer Math develops metacognition and mathematical thinking.

Ready to Try Scholar Zone Extended Learning for Yourself?