On a daily basis, I get teachers asking for help in finding appropriate, complex, thought provoking, engaging informational texts to use for close reading across the content areas. Newsela is a resource that many 5-8 teachers have been utilizing in our district. But what about for those students in the primary grades? Just this week, I discovered Newsela - Elementary, designed for elementary classrooms, starting in 2nd grade!!
Both versions of Newsela offer
- High interest, nonfiction text offered in 5 Lexile levels (for differentiation)
- Relevant, daily news articles
- Innovative ways to build reading comprehension
- Pre-bundled text sets that tie to a common theme, topic, or standard
Check out Five Easy Ways to Use Newsela for quick and easy ways to bring Newsela into your classroom next week.
Not sure how to convert AR to Lexile Level? This AR to Lexile Conversion Chart might help.
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