Newsela

Newsela is an online news-as-literacy platform that features high-interest nonfiction articles on everything from current events to myths and legends and from literature to science.  Newsela publishes 10 articles per day on 5 different reading levels with at least one in Spanish.  Each article has a quiz and a writing prompt.

This page houses resources on Newsela including livestreams, documents, links to resources, and ideas for implementation. As with all applications, please feel free to reach out to the Educational Technology Team.

This Getting Started with Newsela livestream reviews how to access Newsela, how to find relevant content, and how to assign content to students.

Newsela Livestream

The Getting Started with Newsela presentation above was used during the livestream.

Additional Video Resources