Newsela in the Classroom

Newsela in the Classroom

The site allows student to access article collections that range in reading Lexile levels to differentiate Reading passages for students. Students also take quizzes on the content within the article. Newslea has a feature that allows educators to customize assessments. Students that have exceptionalities within the classroom are able to access information as their peers do with slight modification.

Newsela Site Amenities

• Collection of information in all academic content areas such as Social Studies, History, Sports, Economics, Art, and Science.
• Text Collections
• Student binder that collects data on academic performance
• Power Words
• Customization Binder
• Accessible to all students no matter their physical disability
• Text to speech option

Newslea Use

Newslea is used in the classroom by students and teachers. The teacher creates a class in order to create and assign assignments. The teacher assigns and then invites students to assigned classrooms. The teacher assigns articles to students. The teacher creates instructions of how they would like the assignment completed. The teacher has the ability to highlight an annotate parts of the article they would like to bring to the students attention. Teachers can create and assign writing prompts for students response. Students complete the assignment through Newslea. The teacher reviews student responses to the completion of assignments.. The teacher also has access to the amount of reading time the student committed to reading the article.

My Classroom

In my Kindergarten classroom, I would use Newslea as a resource for informational text. I would read the article to the students  and conduct the close read  in whole group. I would annotate and highlight academic vocabulary . I would also use the highlight feature within the article to highlight important concepts within the print. During center rotations, I would use the text-to speech opinion and writing prompt feature that accompanies the article. If I had a one to one classroom with each students assigned a device I would assign the quiz immediately following the article reading. However, I teach Kindergarten so I would take a collection of response to device answers from the quiz.