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Newsela

Published on Nov 20, 2015

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Newsela

Nonfiction Literacy and Current Events
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Daily news stories aligned to CCSS, written at 5 levels of complexity w/ assessments embedded. Need I say more...

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Strengths

  • Linked to Common Core Standards
  • Relevant articles, rewritten in 5 Lexile levels
  • Built in Common Core assessments
  • Easy to use interface
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Strengths

  • Ability to annotate notes, leave comments & post questions to class
  • Converse back and forth with students w/in articles
  • Ability for teachers to create classes and assign articles
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Room for Improvement

  • Ability to create our own quizzes
  • More assessment options (ie. constructed response)
  • Ability for teacher/students to create their own comprehension questions
  • Push out articles to individual students at different lexiles (Pro?)
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