What is Newsela used for?
Newsela is an Instructional Content Platform that brings together engaging, accessible content with integrated assessments and insights to supercharge reading engagement and learning in every subject. Content on Newsela covers topics students care about, that connect to core curriculum, and are aligned to standards.
Is there a free version of Newsela?
Access to news content on Newsela is always free. Get additional content, standards, instructional resources, and insights with our core subject products.
How do I join a class on Newsela?
- Class Link. Go to the Class Link. By following the on-screen instructions to sign in or create an account, join the class.
- Class Code. Go to newsela.com. Click your initials in the upper right-hand corner. Under the classes section of your account page, enter the Class Code in the box and click “Add a Class.”
What grade levels is Newsela for?
As the Newsela site states, Students in grades 2-12 have unlimited access to more than 10,000 texts from 20 genres…all at 5 different reading levels. The texts have standards-aligned reading activities and real-time insights to support daily instruction and differentiation across the curriculum.
Do you have to pay for Newsela?
Do students need an account to use Newsela?
Anyone can join Newsela as a student to read articles and complete writing responses and annotations. As a student, you only need one Newsela account. You can keep using that Newsela account every year, for all of your classes.
What age is Newsela for?
Newsela has articles curated for younger readers, typically grades 2-6. When a teacher sets their classroom to elementary, only Elementary and middle school articles appear for students as they navigate and browse Newsela.
What is max level in Newsela?
The staffers at Newsela rewrite each news article so that it can be read at five (5) different reading levels, from elementary school reading levels as low as grade 3 to maximum reading levels in grade 12.
What is the difference between Newsela and ReadWorks?
Both Newsela and ReadWorks offer text-dependent reading-comprehension assessments. Newsela provides four multiple-choice questions and an optional short-answer question for each article. ReadWorks provides questions for its passage pairs and text sets.
