Newsela
Newsela
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Newsela brings together engaging, accessible articles with integrated assessments and insights. Content on Newsela covers topics that are relevant to students lives, that connect to core curriculum, and are aligned to standards.
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Multilingual Learners
What is newsela All About?
What is newsela All About?
This short video shows how to embed a NewsELA assignment in Canvas.
Join Amy Sakowitz, 5th grade English/Language Arts and Social Studies Teacher at Panther Run Elementary School in Broward County, Florida, in a discussion about best practices for using Newsela and Canvas to meet student needs.
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Curricular Uses, Resources, & Tutorials
Curricular Uses, Resources, & Tutorials
Newsela can be used in all content areas. It is an instructional content tool that allows teachers to find articles with appropriate reading levels for their students. Newsela articles also feature questions and writing prompts that align with common core standards. For more videos, check out Newsela YouTube Channel.
Accessibility: Content available in Spanish.
Learning Activities
Learning Activities
Social Studies: Use articles to support points in a debate. Use articles in curriculum to bring in culturally relevant current events or topics.
Science: Learn about hot topics (like robotics or climate change). Use articles as supplementary resources in curriculum.
Math: Read about how math is used “in real life” in finance and economics (use the “Math in the Real World” Text set).
ELA: Use articles that connect to literary themes. Conduct research. Nonfiction genre study.
World Language: Articles available in Spanish.
Other Topics: Health, Sports, Arts/Culture
Tips to Support English Language Learners
Teachers should take care that students are reading texts that are comprehensible, but also offer a productive challenge. A text lexiled to offer no challenge to a student may be a missed opportunity for that student to apply a strategy or acquire new language.
High-interest and generally brief articles, from today’s headlines and from history, to complement curriculum in many subject areas.
A huge collection of articles professionally translated (not machine-translated) into Spanish, plus a good amount of originally Spanish-language content.
All articles are re-written for different Lexile levels, which students can self-select, making content accessible to a range of reading and English-language proficiencies.
Digital Framework Connections:
The SAMR model, developed by Dr. Ruben Puentedura (see more here), reminds us to think about ways to use technology to redefine tasks and add functions that could not be done without the technology, rather than substitutions all the time. Below are some ways Newsela can be used at each stage of the SAMR Model.
Substitution: Teachers assign the same Newsela article at the same reading level for all students rather than assigning a printed newspaper article.
Augmentation: Teachers use Newsela to assign relevant articles with appropriate challenge level and scaffolding for students.
Modification: Teachers use Newsela to integrate assessment into engaging readings.
Redefinition: Teachers use Newsela to personalize learning to each student’s reading level while still delivering the same content.
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