Newsela
Product Details
- Website
- https://newsela.com
- Overview
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Newsela is a differentiated instructional-content platform with leveled texts and subject collections. It is designed primarily for upper-elementary through high-school learners reading at varied levels across ELA, science, social studies, and current events, with students, teachers, curriculum leaders, multilingual-learner staff, and interventionists using it to support knowledge building, disciplinary literacy, current events, vocabulary, and text-dependent response.
Teachers assign articles and text sets at accessible levels, connect reading to standards or curriculum topics, and use quizzes, writing, annotations, and reports to guide instruction. The product should be evaluated for the specific learners, instructional setting, and intensity of support a district intends—not simply as another source of digital activities.
- Student Data Privacy
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Review the Common Sense Privacy Rating:
https://privacy.commonsense.org/evaluation/newselaNEWSELA Privacy Policy:
https://newsela.com/about/newsela-privacy-policy/
Signed California Student Data Privacy Agreement?
No - Features
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Audience and instructional role
- Grades / learners: upper-elementary through high-school learners reading at varied levels across ELA, science, social studies, and current events
- Primary users: students, teachers, curriculum leaders, multilingual-learner staff, and interventionists
- Learning focus: knowledge building, disciplinary literacy, current events, vocabulary, and text-dependent response — a differentiated instructional-content platform with leveled texts and subject collections
How it supports learning- Teachers assign articles and text sets at accessible levels, connect reading to standards or curriculum topics, and use quizzes, writing, annotations, and reports to guide instruction.
- Teachers should use the product within a defined instructional model rather than treat activity completion as evidence of learning.
Implementation and instructional decisions- Rename NEWSELA to Newsela. Evaluate the licensed subject products and avoid allowing automatic leveling to isolate students from grade-level knowledge and discussion.
- Districts should confirm accessibility, language support, student-data practices, assignment workflow, reporting, and the role of teacher judgment.
- Interoperabilty
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