Simplifying Texts

Simplifying the texts that students read can lead to higher comprehesion of the ideas you are attempting to teach.  Below, you'll find some tools.

• If you are doing a research project with MLLs or students with limited English proficiency, you can use Simple English Wikipedia: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page 

• NewsELA, Commonlit, and Achieve 3000 convert their texts into many Lexile levels:

  • https://newsela.com/

  • https://www.commonlit.org/

  • https://www.achieve3000.com/ 

• You can use AI to simplify the texts your students are using by entering a command to "Rewrite this text in simple English but keep the ideas in the text."

  • https://openai.com/index/chatgpt/

  • https://google.gemini.com/ 

  • Microsoft Co-pilot

  • https://www.magicschool.ai/