Newsela

Newsela is a platform that encompasses digital articles from all over the world. Newsela is very useful in education. You can select an article and then select the lexile level of any article, which makes any article on the site available and accessible for all reading levels. Newsela will also generate questions and quiz items for any of it's articles that are also scaled to the selected reading level. Newsela focuses on reading skills and comprehension. I have personally used Newsela very often in my classroom to use as bellringer activities or supplemental activities for materials being covered in the classroom. Newsela is a very useful instructional resource for teachers in classrooms across all curriculum.

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