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April 23rd, 2017

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Newsela

Newsela is an awesome site that I feel I do not get to use often enough with my students. Newsela is a news curator but better. Not only do they find interesting and relevant articles to keep students informed, but they rewrite the articles at various lexile levels so that they are reader friendly for every student in your classroom. When I taught langauge arts and had a ton of literature choices at various lexiles for guided reading, I felt at a loss for informational text at various lexiles for guided reading. I always had tried to incorporate news and articles into my language arts classes, but so often the text was too difficult for my students. At a workshop, a reading specialist had told us about Newsela and it was a game changer. I was able to print articles at lexiles to match my guided reading groups and conduct guided reading lessons with informational text. The entire class was able to discuss an article even though they had read it at different lexiles - it was awesome!
Today, I teach the 5th to 8th grade Academically Talented classes, and generally speaking, most of the students are above grade level for reading, so the variety of lexile levels is not as necessary. However, I still love Newsela for finding Socratic Seminar topics for my classes or finding articles that go along with different issues or topics we may be discussing in class. I love Newsela so much, that if I lived in California, I would try to work for them!
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    media specialist. academically talented teacher. reading teacher. mom. exercise addict. avid reader.

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