Deb Rayow

Teachers often know BrainPOP for building background knowledge, but that’s only part of the story. See how BrainPOP supports the Science of Reading, from vocabulary and language structures to verbal reasoning, literacy knowledge, and decoding.

The screen time debate is asking the wrong question. Instead of counting minutes, K-8 teachers should be interrogating the quality of the interaction—and the SAMR model shows how.

So what's actually happening when a student watches a BrainPOP movie? Here's a look under the hood at four pillars that make our movies work.