Google Classroom and Newsela

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Bring Current Events to Your Students with Newsela

Newsela brings current events into your classroom. Newsela takes current news articles and changes the readability based on lexile level. New articles are provided daily at 5 different reading levels. Students can take assessments based on the news articles.

Google Classroom

Providing links to news articles through Google Classroom brings the world to students. Linking to Newsela articles helps to differentiate for different reading abilities of your students.

Automatically Create Newsela Accounts

Newsela syncs with Google Classroom class rosters. Updating Google Classroom automatically will update the Newsela account roster.
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newsela import classes

Text Sets

Share pre-created text sets with your students through Newsela! Try out this “Math in the real world” text set.

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