Newsela

Newsela is an instructional content platform that automatically differentiates fresh and authentic content for students daily. Articles, videos, podcasts, multimedia, and instructional supports are just some of the robust learning available to you and your students. Students can highlight and annotate, take a quiz, and respond to a writing prompt when assigned work in Newsela.

What's Included

With the district license, you and your students have access to Newsela ELA and PD Pass. Newsela ELA allows you to create standards-aligned, leveled ELA lessons with over 10,000 texts across 20+ genres! PD Pass provides teachers with 100+ learning resources, including access to events, videos, and courses, that allow you to customize your own professional learning. Follow the steps in the tutorial below to see how to access the resources in PD Pass

How to access

Teachers and students can access Newsela through Clever. Please see the PDF below with steps to access your account through Clever and how to assign articles to students. This document also contains some basic troubleshooting steps.

Teachers-Getting-Started-with-Newsela-and-Clever.pdf

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