Newsela

As a future English teacher, I am always looking for websites that provide reputable articles on current events in a way that is easy for high-school age students to understand. Newsela provides students and teachers alike access to thousands of articles ranging in topics from art, science, politics, and hot topics. This website provides useful features for teachers looking to differentiate their lesson based on the differing reading levels of their students with its option to change the lexile range of the reading content within each article, which changes the wording to a level that would be best fit for each reader. This website also comes equipped with pre-made sets of articles based on main ideas or themes that could easily be translated into a lesson, such as discussions on a novel about space travel supplemented with articles on advancements in aerospace engineering or technologies that will further space exploration. This website is very user-friendly and allows teachers the option to create their own text-sets to be accessed by their students with a simple code. When designing a class assignment, if logged in as a teacher, users even have access to which students have viewed the assigned articles, the ability to assign writing exercises, and even an option to design quizzes. This website makes implementing technology in the classroom so simple it seems like a no-brainer!