All BrainPOP classrooms drive measurable learning outcomes. Whether you're teaching right angles or the Wright Brothers, you're building students' background knowledge, vocabulary, and reading comprehension.

Boost essential literacy skills in every subject

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Build background knowledge and vocabulary in every classroom to strengthen essential literacy skills

Ensure and track student growth toward grade-level skill proficiency with access
to actionable data.

Support teachers and expand capacity to facilitate effective literacy instruction across all subject areas.

Consistent usage of BrainPOP leads to a
28% increase in literacy skill proficiency for 3-8th grade students.

Proven to improve vocabulary and comprehension skills

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Skill-building at the heart of every topic

With every BrainPOP learning experience, students are building the key literacy skills that are essential to meeting your state's standards.

Scaffold understanding while developing literacy skills to aid in meaning-making, vocabulary acquisition, and language arts development.

Movies with pause points

Branches of Government movie example with Pause Points checkpoint question

Deepen the development of literacy skills through application and practice opportunities that help meet the needs of all learners.

Creative projects and K-8 learning activities

Branches of Government Make-a-Map student example

WHITE PAPER

"How to Maximize a Knowledge-Building Approach to Literacy Skills"

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Teachers can now get a real-time snapshot of how each student is progressing toward grade-level proficiency on essential literacy skills through auto-graded activities.

Track literacy skills progress in the teacher dashboard

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Power up any subject with these essential skills

With every BrainPOP learning experience, students are building the key literacy skills that are essential to meeting your state's standards.

Writing

Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source

Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research

Reading Comprehension

Make logical inferences from explicit details; cite specific evidence to support conclusions drawn

Determine central ideas and summarize the key supporting details and ideas

Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text

Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media formats

Language Arts

Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown words by using context clues and analyzing meaningful word parts

Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings

Acquire and use accurately a range of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases

"I love how BrainPOP can be easily used across all content areas to help students master complex concepts. BrainPOP allows teachers to differentiate lessons easily. It is also a great way to provide alternative assessment methods."

Theresa Ronco

Special Education Teacher
Edison Township Public Schools

"If I had to choose only one digital tool to employ in the classroom, BrainPOP wins hands down … Primary Sources, Quizzes, Movies with Pause Points … it is a powerful, meaningful tool accessible to students [and] teachers."

Lisa DiGangi

Technology Coach
Evesham Township School District

" … rigorous activities at each level of the learning process build background knowledge, motivate deeper learning, and ensure knowledge growth."

Danielle Espinosa

Technology Instructional Coach

Wichita School District

Helping educators transform their classrooms

Apply literacy skills and demonstrate understanding through embedded formative assessments that mirror the types of questions on state standardized tests.