News

The Standard

https://www.thestandard.com.hk/

This is the website of The Standard. You can read the breaking news about Hong Kong and the world here. 

South China Morning Post

https://www.scmp.com/hk 

This is the website of the South China Morning Post. Another website for you to read the breaking news about Hong Kong and the world. 

Standard Goodies

http://studentstandard.thestandard.com.hk/goodies/index.asp 

This is the webpage of the Standard especially created for students. However, the information on this website is not very well organised. If you are looking for news on different topics, you should click here.  

Sing Tao Education: English articles 

https://stedu.stheadline.com/pri/ENGLISH 

You can read some English articles about what happens in Hong Kong and the world here. 

Young Post

http://yp.scmp.com/

Young Post of the South China Morning Post covers the latest news, views and stories on Hong Kong students, school life, sport and local education 

News in Levels: World News for Students of English

 https://www.newsinlevels.com/#

Practise reading world news in easy English. 

Time for Kids

https://www.timeforkids.com/g34/?age=child 

You can read news on different topics here. There are 4 grade-based editions: K-1 (the easiest), 2, 3-4 and 5-6. If you like, you can have the articles read aloud for you or you can print them out to read while you mark and make notes on the hard copy.   

News for Kids

https://newsforkids.net/ 

This is another news website for kids. 

CBC Kids News

https://www.cbc.ca/kidsnews/

You can read real news on topics that kids are interested in.  

Science News for Students

https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/ 

You can read about the latest STEM news on this website.  There is a glossary at the end of each article to help you understand new words and there are 3 articles suggested to you on the right on related topics to help you learn even more about the topics. Here are some sections that sound especially interesting: 

Explainers: These articles help you understand different topics, such as areas of our brain, the greenhouse effect and endangered animals.     

Inventions & Innovations: You may get some interesting ideas for your science projects or even your own inventions in this section. The topics of these news stories range from wet suits inspired by sea otters to tiny robots that work in teams. 

Experiments: The collection of articles here teaches you about how science is done. You can repeat the steps of one of these experiments and compare your results — or use this as inspiration to design your own experiment.  

Technically Fiction: These articles tell you about the science behind fiction, from Harry Potter and bigfoot to what it would take to make an elephant fly. 

Breaking News English

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/index.html 

Read current news to improve your reading skills. The same news is available in 7 different levels, from elementary to advanced. Just choose the level you feel most comfortable with.

Smithsonian Tween Tribune

https://www.tweentribune.com/category/junior/

This website is developed by the Smithsonian Institute to encourage you to further your knowledge about the world. The articles are submitted by young adults under the guidance of their teachers and professional journalists around the world. 

The articles are leveled: Grades K-4, 5-8 and 9-12. You can choose to read articles of the level that you feel most comfortable with and write about what you think as comments so that you can communicate with other students like you. 

Practice English with News

https://practicewithnews.com/ 

Read and listen to real news in easy English to learn new words and phrases.