Relevant, local content designed to complement your curriculum, support literacy efforts, and build conceptual knowledge.
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Resources to Support Literacy Efforts
Address the literacy gap with flexible content that helps teachers differentiate instruction, making learning accessible for all students.
Use content aligned to the Mississippi College and Career Readiness Standards that challenges students to critically examine multiple perspectives, while allowing teachers to promote reading engagement and literacy skills.
Integrate social-emotional concepts into instruction with relatable, real-world content that helps students process the changes they’re experiencing
Curations, Lessons, and Customizations
Create custom activities, search for content by standard, curate Text Sets, and control the reading levels students experience.
Quizzes, Writing Prompts, and Assignments
Create and share customizable assignments and give students access to reading comprehension quizzes, customizable writing prompts, and annotations.
Aligned to Mississippi State Standards
Use Newsela to teach the standards and priorities of your school, district and the state of Mississippi. We support leading frameworks, and commonly used curricula to ensure instruction is both engaging and driving learning.
We know how important it is to play nice with your existing technologies. That’s why we integrate with top rostering solutions and support IMS standards.
Authentic, standards-aligned content that supports the standards and mandates that matter to Mississippi schools.
"Newsela is a powerful teaching resource. This easy-to-use platform provides teachers and students with access to fiction and non-fiction texts of varying complexities. Activities may be hosted on the website or printed for easy use. The text is aligned with many national core reading series (including Journeys, which we purchased last school term), features writing instruction support, and includes vocabulary instruction support. Resources are available for second-grade through twelfth-grade (2nd-12th) ELA, science, and social studies. This is supported by reporting, data tracking, and professional development. The platform has a growing bank of texts and access for kindergarten and first-grade."
"Our teachers were already using the free version of Newsela and loving it. As a result, when funds recently became available we decided to invest in premium Newsela accounts for all of our teachers. We wanted to unlock all of the wonderful resources that are not available in the free version. With a renewed focus on literacy skills development in our district, Newsela will provide valuable resources to support our literacy goals. Our teachers are excited to learn more about what Newsela can do for their students and the customer service has been outstanding."