Newsela

Newsela takes authentic, real world content from trusted sources and makes it instruction ready for K-12 classrooms. Texts are published at five reading levels, so content is accessible to every learner. Content is aligned to standards and has activities, such as quizzes and resources.  Progress monitoring in the Binder provides visibility into what students are learning. With more than 15,000 texts and multiple new texts published daily across 20+ genres, Newsela has the content to help educators fill the gaps in their core materials and spark student interest. There are now videos, fiction text, and poetry available.

Access Newsela via their website. Login by clicking the Google button and using your mylusd account.

Curriculum Complements (texts that align with our adopted curriculum - you may need to sign in to Newsela to view them):

Getting Started with Newsela

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Newsela and Google Classroom

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Finding content and creating assignments

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Newsela Text Features

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Assessing Students and Using Data

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