Imagine my joy when I found out about Newsela, a website that modifies the vocabulary and syntax of news articles to match the reading levels of students. I will confirm: There was significant joy. Not only does Newsela offer students high-interest news articles, but it also does something truly novel: It provides those articles at five …
My students use Newsela for any current events and informative reports that they are assigned to. They are very familiar with it because our librarian implements it in her weekly library routine. I have observed that it is probably the least favorite from the other platforms that we provide for reading. None the less, students get into it because of how they can change it to the level that they are comfortable with.Â