Connect to Content: Instructional Resources

Connect to Content

Maintaining a strong pace and connection to our content and curriculum is hard enough during the best of times, and sudden remote teaching can provide a host of additional challenges to an already difficult task. Newsela has a host of ideas to help you maintain a strong grounding in your curriculum and our aligned and accessible content.

Connect your students to skills!

Newsela’s Little Lessons are student-facing resources that give students quick how-tos on Newsela tools and instructional strategies using the site.

Little Lesson videos include:

Connect your students to your curriculum!

Newsela’s Curriculum Complements can help teachers keep their scope and sequence on pace. Using the lesson sparks connected to articles, teachers can make remote learning come to life on Newsela.

Keep the conversations alive by assigning some of these recommended lessons.

Q U I C K N A V

A S K A T E A C H E R

Newsela’s Professional Learning team is here to help, we had office hours to share ways to teach remotely, all staffed by one of our former teachers!

On Demand Office Hours :
Google Classroom
Special Education
Remote Learning
English Language Learners



Connect your students to standards!

Newsela’s reading skills make connecting students to reading standards a cinch!

Newsela makes it easy to search by reading standard and create text sets based on specific reading skills to send or assign to classes or groups of students.

How To:



Essential Tips to foster student choice through remote learning.

Tools and tips to help your class stay connected and maintain a sense of community.