No matter your subject, there are online tools to help you find non-fiction articles related to your units of study and that can be used easily by teachers and students.
Newsela is a great tool that provides access to many great news articles and text sets with their free version. Teachers will need to register, but it gives you access to articles that promote non-fiction literacy by using current events. You can search by topic (war and peace, science, kids, money, law, health, arts and sports). They also provide text sets about popular topics such as Campaign 2016, life online, overcoming obstacles, and constitutional issues. These are great resources for many of the units you are teaching – both content and themes.
Newsela allows you do print the articles or share them via social media. A lot of teachers are sharing articles via Twitter, and this allows you do share via Twitter, email, Facebook, etc. Colorful photographs accompany the articles for visual impact. Most articles feature a generic writing prompt, and some have multiple-choice quizzes you could assign as practice or complete together.
Some ways you could use Newsela include sharing with students for current events in your curriculum, flipped classroom assignments, warm-ups, remediation practice, and extension and enrichment. Honors English classes could also use the articles for their Big Question artifacts.
Newsela is a great tool that provides access to many great news articles and text sets with their free version. Teachers will need to register, but it gives you access to articles that promote non-fiction literacy by using current events. You can search by topic (war and peace, science, kids, money, law, health, arts and sports). They also provide text sets about popular topics such as Campaign 2016, life online, overcoming obstacles, and constitutional issues. These are great resources for many of the units you are teaching – both content and themes.
Newsela allows you do print the articles or share them via social media. A lot of teachers are sharing articles via Twitter, and this allows you do share via Twitter, email, Facebook, etc. Colorful photographs accompany the articles for visual impact. Most articles feature a generic writing prompt, and some have multiple-choice quizzes you could assign as practice or complete together.
Some ways you could use Newsela include sharing with students for current events in your curriculum, flipped classroom assignments, warm-ups, remediation practice, and extension and enrichment. Honors English classes could also use the articles for their Big Question artifacts.