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Newsela ELA is a 2025 CODiE Award Finalist

Drive literacy outcomes with real-world content, knowledge-building, and skills practice

Coming soon! Generation Genius ELA Video Lessons

Newsela ELA’s rich content is expanding to engage K-5 students!

Videos that feature lovable characters, explicit instruction, and purposeful repetition.
Supporting instructional materials that reinforce video learning.
High-quality content developed by our expert teams.
ELA topics covered that range from phonemic awareness and parts of speech, to using context clues and theme or central message.

Individual articles and collections

Our content library of over 18,000 pieces of content cover a range of curricular topics and student interests and include collections dedicated to helping students build background knowledge on any topic, book, or theme covered in class.

Novel and Book Studies support over 500 of the most commonly taught books.
Curriculum Complements align with commonly taught curricula.
Decodables for older readers rebuild foundational literacy skills.
Over 175+ content partners provide authentic, diverse perspectives in any lesson.

Get time-saving support with AI tools

Newsela ELA uses purposeful AI through your AI-powered assistant Luna to support a variety of instructional needs and student supports.

Lesson Planner quickly instructionalizes Newsela content.
Graphic organizers generate ready-made, editable, digitally assignable PDFs.
Text leveler instantly adapts any text to desired levels.
In-paragraph text translations support multilingual learners.

Drive instruction forward with data

Get a real-time look at student progress and product usage to identify learning needs and strengthen instruction.

Usage report shows how your usage aligns with recommendations from our efficacy studies.
Drill-down pages detail school and teacher usage.
Teacher reporting shows class and study activity and skills progress.
Student reporting lets students review their progress.

Drive literacy outcomes with real-world content, knowledge-building, and skills practice

Extensive content coverage

Choose from thousands of curated texts and videos to help students build background knowledge on any topic, book, or theme covered in class.

Time-saving tools to amplify instruction

From lesson content suggestions that save teachers time to AI-powered graphic organizers to deepen student comprehension, Newsela ELA uses purposeful AI to support a variety of instructional needs.

Grow every learner with powerful scaffolds and activities

Content available at five reading levels, Checks for Understanding, Guided highlighting, a text translator scaffold and more to encourage close reading and help students engage in active learning.

Standards-aligned assessment

Use authentic, real-world content with standards-aligned assessments to practice skills without sacrificing engagement.

Reporting

Get real time insights into student progress and product usage to identify learning needs and strengthen instruction.

Skills for college, career, and civic readiness

Practice digital citizenship, media literacy skills, and C3 inquiry skills with curated text sets. Write prompts and comprehension quizzes on every text help students practice a variety of skills.

Newsela ELA Overview

Want a closer look at how Newsela ELA uses content-rich instruction to drive literacy outcomes?

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Proven to drive positive literacy outcomes

Students who read and take quizzes twice per week on Newsela ELA see four additional months of literacy skill growth by the end of the school year.

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Newsela ELA is a 2025 CODiE Award Finalist!

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Customize Newsela ELA with popular add-ons like The Newsela SEL Collection. Or have our team of experts create a custom resource just for you!

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Our instructional and assessment tools—plus a library of +18,000 differentiated, authentic texts and videos from +175 trusted providers that cover a range of curricular topics and student interests—support every lesson.