U.S. History
Illinois History
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A relevant and engaging instructional content platform designed to complement your ELA, social studies, and science curriculum.
Support for Illinois Curriculum Mandates
WCAG and SOPPA compliant resource
Contact IL teamA relevant and engaging instructional content platform designed to complement your ELA, social studies, and science curriculum.
Support for Illinois Curriculum Mandates
WCAG and SOPPA compliant resource
Newsela knows Illinois
As Illinois education evolves, districts can adapt by leveraging Newsela’s flexible content.
Engage students wherever they’re learning with authentic, relevant content from one trusted resource that supports your SEL initiatives and academic needs.
Adhere to Illinois curriculum mandates with engaging content for LGBTQ+ instruction, Black History, and more.
Makes content accessible to all students with an experience that is fully compliant with World Wide Web Compliance Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) - adhering to the new Illinois law (Public Act 102-0238).
Check out examples of our Illinois content
Newsela curates thousands of engaging standards-aligned texts to support Illinois curriculum mandates.
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Example Illinois History Content
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Instructional supports to expand students' learning experience and engagement
Curations
Curations, Lessons, and Customizations. Create custom activities, search for content by standard, curate Text Sets, and control the reading levels students experience.
Resources
Quizzes, Writing Prompts, and Assignments. Create and share customizable assignments and give students access to reading comprehension quizzes, customizable writing prompts, and annotations.
Alignments
Aligned to Illinois State and Local Standards. Use Newsela to teach the standards and priorities of your school, district and the state of Illinois. We support leading frameworks, and commonly used curricula to ensure instruction is both engaging and driving learning.
Content aligns to Illinois Priority Learning Standards for English Language Arts, Science and Social Studies
SEL content and supports align to Illinois Priority Learning Standards for Social and Emotional Learning
Curriculum Complements across subjects align to the scope and sequence of popular curricular materials
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High-quality content to support learning
Meet our trusted Illinois partners
We partner with educators and leaders from around the state to meet your content and PD needs.
Illinois Learning Technology Purchase Program
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Resources to help Illinois educators get the most from Newsela’s content solutions.
Content solutions across the curriculum
Meet the needs of your diverse learner populations with authentic, digital-first content.
