Newsela
Newsela
Differentated news articles for students. Spanish articles available.
Grades 3-5 have access to the Newsela Social Studies collection.
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What is Newsela ?
What is Newsela ?
Newsela is an online news-as-literacy platform that features high-interest articles on everything from current events to myths and legends and from literature to science. Content is updated daily, with stories from a wide range of sources (from the Associated Press to Scientific American to the Washington Post) in English and also often in Spanish.
Topics run the gamut from pop culture to roller derby and Minecraft, and they touch on subjects that encourage cross-curricular reading, such as DNA testing, global women's rights, living conditions in Syria, and travel to Mars. Newsela offers Text Sets, which offer thematically curated texts as well as lesson plans and activities that can give students a more holistic picture of a topic. These rotate regularly, including timely content like a set of texts for COVID19.
All articles are available in five Lexile levels, ranging (roughly) from third to 12th grade. Each leveled text features a quiz tailored to that particular article plus a writing prompt that asks students to write and respond to what they've read.
You can assign articles to individual students as well as small groups, using the quizzes to track progress and make further suggestions. Whole-class work has just as much potential; you can select articles for targeted instruction on specific reading standards while modeling good annotation and close-reading strategies for your students. Check more from Common Sense Media’s Full Review of Newsela here.
Social Studies Collection
Social Studies Collection
The Newsela Social Studies collection is available for grades 3-5. This collection serves as the basis of the Social Studies Curriculum for grades 4 and 5.
Teachers can review the content, print it out and/or assign it digitally to their students.
If you are having access issues, please contact : support@newsela.com for immediate assistance.
How do I add my students to Newsela?
How do I add my students to Newsela?
Students are linked through Clever and should access Newslea from the Clever portals.
If you would like to assign materials using Google Classroom, you can find out more information about that here.
How can I assess student work using Newsela?
How can I assess student work using Newsela?
Article Page
The article page lets you see a list of students who have completed an article that has been assigned, and those who have not yet viewed the assigned article. Under each student’s name you will see a row for each reading level at which they completed the work. You can click a row to review work, including viewing annotations and reading time.
Additional Help Content on this topic can be found here.
Binder Assignments Tab
The Assignments Review Page will let you review a summary of class activity for the assignment and information about each students’ work.
Additional Help Content on this topic can be found here.
Binder Reading Summary Tab
In the Reading Summary tab in the Binder, you can see a summary of all student activity on Newsela, review students' performance on reading skills, and navigate to a Reading Summary for each student.
Additional Help Content on this topic can be found here.
Binder Power Words Tab
Some articles have power words for students to learn and review. You can review student work on Power Words as a group or individually.
Additional Help Content on this topic can be found here.
Reading Skills
Each level of every Newsela article has its own 4-question quiz connected to two reading skills. With a Newsela subscription, you can filter by reading skill to find articles that have a quiz that assesses the standard(s) you selected.
When you have a Newsela PRO, Newsela ELA, or Newsela Essential subscription, you can use the Binder to understand your students' levels of success on the 8 national reading informational texts skills.
Additional Help Content on this topic can be found here.
Activity Feed
To see the activity stream, hover over Binder at the top of the page and select Activity Feed from the drop-down menu. This will bring up the recent work completed by students in your class. Selecting an activity from this list will direct you to the assignment page for the assignment or the independent work completed by the student.
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