"Like things together" is a bit of organizing advice from my mother. Now neither of us would win any awards for our organizational skills, but I know someone who does: Newsela. I know some of you are familiar with this resource, and I'd love to hear about how you use it.
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More to love:
- Texts in Spanish-- what an awesome resource for bilingual classrooms or for students with limited English proficiency.
- Famous speeches-- this could be great to use in conjunction with Gretchen Bernabei's new book, Text Structures from the Masters. It is a collection of famous speeches where students uncover the structure of the text and use that same structure for the basis of their own writing.
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Each article comes with a writing prompt (they are hit or miss) and a brief 4-question quiz. I have been really impressed with the quality of the questions from the quiz. Here is a sample question:
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How do you use Newsela in your classroom?
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