Newsela
Overview
- Overview
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Newsela is a differentiated instructional-content platform with leveled texts and subject collections. 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. Text level, assignment, and student response need to be interpreted together. Teachers connect reading and writing evidence with the topic and instructional goals of the local lesson.
Features
- 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
- 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.
Student Data Privacy
- Student Data Privacy
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Review the Common Sense Privacy Rating:
N/A
Newsela Privacy Policy:
https://newsela.com/about/newsela-privacy-policy/
Signed California Student Data Privacy Agreement?
No records found in SDPC Registry
Company News
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Interoperability
Sign-on, rostering, and file exchange methods
Learning Management System Connectivity
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Note: SDLA does not endorse or resell any products listed on the site. They are listed simply to aid in the development of integration resources for school district ed-data leaders.
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