Maybe you're already using it, but a colleague recently told me about a great online source for news and I had to share. It's called
Newsela, and here are a few reasons you might like it:
- It's full of current and relevant information. They adapt news stories from a variety of sources (AP, newspapers from around the country).
- It's accessible to students with different reading skills. They create different versions of each story at different Lexile levels. So you can adjust a single story to use simpler or more complex grammar and sentence structure.
- It's geared toward classrooms. As a teacher, you can make a free account and add your students.
- It's Common Core-friendly. It's a great way to get current, engaging non-fiction to your students.
You can play around on the site and read up to 5 articles before signing up. Here's an example, note the blue lexile bar on the right.
