Newsela

What is Newsela?

Newsela is a classroom reading resource that provides students with hundreds current reference and news articles that scale at five different Lexile reading comprehension levels. Articles are organized in easy to browse groupings and are categories across curricular areas. Newsela supports math, science, social studies, and many other subjects in addition to being a great ELA reading resource. Newsela allows you to track your data and assess their reading skills across common core reading standards as well, giving you insight about the type of reading assignments and content you should be focusing students on.

Read "7 Reasons to Love Newsela" by Kenny C. McKee for more on how Newsela can benefit your classroom.

How Can You Use Newsela?

• Provide student choice in reading. There are so many articles available, there is bound to be something for everyone. Set your students free.
• Get to know your students. Look at the type of articles they choose and you'll learn what they are in to. You can use that to help select further materials, or to engage with them better.
• Cut across the curriculum. If you are a math or science teacher and want to get at a topic in a different way or provide some background for the process you're teaching, use Newsela. Check out the category for the area you teach and find something that supports your instruction.
• Progress monitor and data tracking are easy and built in to Newsela. As your students finish articles and complete quizzes, you will have a source of data that can drive your instruction.

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