Newsela Text Sets

• • Code

  • Computer Science For All

  • Gamer Girls and Beyond: Girls in Computer Science & Technology

  • Computer Science Careers

Discovery Education (sign in via Clever) Computer Science Channel:

• K-5th grades

• 6th-8th grades

• 9th-12th grades

Newsela (sign in via site using the Google button):

• Winter Solstice Article and Video Set

• Winter Fiction and Poetry text set

• Paired Texts "The Sun Stands Still" and Winter Solstice

• Winter STEAM activities

• Winter & Science text set

Discovery Education (sign in via Clever) Winter Weather Channel:

• K-5th grades

• 6th-8th grades

• 9th-12th grades

Newsela:

• • Video Judaism: Hanukkah

  • Video Hanukkah

  • Poem “Lighting the Menorah”

  • Poem “On Chanukah”

Newsela

• • Fiction Hanukkah Helper

  • Article The Dreidel and how to play it

  • Article The History of Hanukkah

  • Text set Celebrating Hanukkah

Discovery Education (sign in via Clever) Hanukkah Channel:

• K-5th grades

• 6th-8th grades

• 9th-12th grades

Newsela:

• • Video Christmas Day

  • Fiction text Feliz Navidad: Celebrating Christmas

  • Article A History of Christmas

  • Article From the main dish to dessert, Christmas foods around the world

Newsela:

• • Paired Texts "The Legend of the Poinsettias" and Giving Gifts

  • Paired Texts "Thoko's Gift" and Christmas in Other Countries

  • Text set Celebrating Christmas

Discovery Education (sign in via Clever) Christmas Channel:

• K-5th grades

• 6th-8th grades

• 9th-12th grades

• Video Spanish Posadas

Newsela:

• • Article Five Things You May Not Know About Kwanzaa

  • Opinion Article What the Kwanzaa holiday means for Black Americans

  • Text set Celebrating Kwanzaa 

Discovery Education (sign in via Clever) Kwanzaa Channel:

• K-5th grades

• 6th-8th grades

• 9th-12th grades

Newsela:

•  Article The History of New Year's Eve

• Article The history of popular New Year's traditions

• Text set Starting a New Year

Discovery Education (access via Clever) resources (videos, lessons, podcast, etc)

Newsela:

• Video Martin Luther King Junior

• Video Did you know? Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Video Speech: "I Have a Dream" by Martin Luther King Jr.

• Famous Speeches Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream"

• Biography Civil Rights Leaders: Martin Luther King Jr.

• Text set with lessons Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.

Discovery Education (access via Clever) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. channel:

• K-5th grades

• 6th-8th grades

• 9th-12th grades

Newsela:

• Lesson Black History, Our History

• Lesson Black History is US History

• Lesson HBCUs - Their History, Importance & Present

• Text Set 28 Days of Black History: Then & Now

Newsela Black History Month text sets:

• Science and Technology

• Trailblazing Women

• Resistance and Liberation

• Being Seen — Black Artists and Writers

• Being Heard — Music from Resistance to Empowerment

Newsela Abbreviated Black U.S. History text sets:

• Sustaining Black Cultures in Colonial America

• Black Cultural Renaissance of the 1920s and ’30s

• Black Stories from Antebellum America

• Black Trailblazing through the 20th Century

Discovery Education (access via Clever) Black History Month channel:

• K-5th grades

• 6-8th grades

• 9th-12th grades

Discovery Education (access via Clever) African American Experiences:

• History

• Culture

• Politics

Newsela:

• Video Chinese New Year

• Make a dragon puppet to celebrate Lunar New Year

• Paired Texts "Li Ti'en and the Demon Nian" and Chinese New Year

• Text Set

Discovery Education (access via Clever) Lunar New Year channel:

• K-5th grades

• 6th-8th grades

• 9th-12th grades

Discovery Education (access via Clever) ready-to-use activities that highlight Vooks storybooks

Newsela:

• Photos Happy Presidents Day

• Lesson Powers of the President

• Article How to become president of the United States

• Article The job of the president

• Article How Government Works: The president's job

• Text Set Presidential Profiles

• Text Set Presidential Speeches

Discovery Education (access via Clever) Presidents' Day channel:

• K-5th grades

• 6th-8th grades

• 9th-12th grades