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Power data-driven instruction and engaging lessons with new product updates. Watch our on-demand webinars to learn more.

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Formative Updates

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Support close reading and active learning with a redesigned student experience and new scaffolds

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Enable curriculum alignment and data-driven instruction with enhanced admin tools

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Engage students across subjects with high-quality content

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Support close reading and active learning with a redesigned student experience and new scaffolds

Text translator scaffold 

Paragraph-by-paragraph article translation available in 14 languages.

‍Key Benefits:

  • ‍Translate a paragraph from a Newsela article into a different language
  • Empower multilingual learners to access grade-level content, regardless of their preferred language

Best Used For:

  • Multilingual learners striving to comprehend Newsela articles
Listen Mode for Quizzes

Listen to quiz questions and answers on the View Page.

‍Key Benefits:

  • Allow students to better comprehend quiz questions and answers with the ability to listen to them

Best Used For:

  • Differentiated support for students with a read-aloud accommodation
Citation Generator

An easy way to create properly formatted citations directly from their assignment.

‍Key Benefits:

  • Reliable support to format citations and ensure work meets high-quality standards of integrity and professionalism

Best Used For:

  • Creating properly formatted citations for APA, MLA, and Chicago Manual of Style
Checks for Understanding

A scaffold that encourages close reading with low-stakes, AI-generated recall questions embedded within the text.
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‍Key Benefits:

  • Encourage close reading on all news and informational texts across Newsela ELA, Newsela Science, and Newsela Social Studies 

Best Used For:

  • Low-stakes evaluation of students’ close reading skills
Guided Highlighting

Targeted AI-generated prompts that ask students to highlight a part of the text that aligns to a reading skill
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‍Key Benefits:

  • Help students practice skill-building strategies during the reading process 

Best Used For:

  • Practice analyzing and identifying literacy skills
I have used Newsela to introduce historical and cultural context before diving into literature, ensuring students have the necessary background to analyze texts deeply. For instance, before reading Esperanza Rising, students explored Newsela articles on the Great Depression and Mexican migrant workers, helping them better understand the novel’s setting and themes.

– Mohammad Ahmed, 6th-8th ELA Teacher, Woodbridge Township School District

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Enable curriculum alignment and data-driven instruction with enhanced admin tools

Admin Reporting

Updated reporting with new views for teacher and school usage, plus weekly and monthly product usage, available to download as a CSV.
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‍Key Benefits:

  • Gain deeper insights into product usage across classrooms and schools to power future instructional planning

Best Used For:

  • District-wide instructional planning
  • Identifying product usage trends
Teacher Reporting

Enhanced user experience for insights into reading skills, reading activity, and student performance.
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‍Key Benefits:

  • Clear reporting on student performance and growth over time
  • Comparison data to contextualize student performance

Best Used For:

  • Simplified data-driven instruction
Content Settings

Easy administrator-level settings to manage content visibility and recommend content types, themes, and topics to your teachers.
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‍Key Benefits:

  • Align the teacher experience with your instructional priorities and goals

Best Used For:

  • Spotlight preferred content for easy teacher access across your district
  • Meet specific state/district guidelines and manage age-appropriate access
Newsela [Social Studies] enhances my instruction because it allows me to extend learning beyond the classroom. My students are able to connect things we talk about in class to the real world…the articles have been great resources for students to read about things that connect to our topics and the state we live in.

– Gina Geletei, 4th Grade Teacher, Edison Township School District

Engage students across subjects with high-quality content

Decodables for Older Readers

Fictional stories and informational texts that allow below grade-level readers to build word recognition skills with engaging, age-appropriate content.
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‍Key Benefits:

  • Reinforce explicit literacy instruction
  • Provide structured practice to close the literacy gap
  • Strengthen word recognition, fluency, and reading confidence
  • Keep students engaged with age-appropriate, compelling content

Best Used For:

  • Upper elementary through high school-age students who need foundational literacy skills support
Novel and Book Studies

Curated texts, videos, and instructional tips to support lessons on over 500 of the most commonly taught titles.
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‍Key Benefits:

  • Support content-rich instruction
  • Save time searching for materials that align to lessons on novels and books

Best Used For:

  • Enhancing ELA lessons with context and knowledge to better understand classroom books
Fiction and Drama

Even more excerpts and analysis to flexibly integrate into each lesson on popular dramas and fictional texts.

‍Key Benefits:

  • Support content-rich instruction 
  • Save time searching for materials that align to lessons on popular drama and fiction pieces

Best Used For:

  • Enhancing ELA lessons with context and knowledge to better understand classroom books
State Editions

State-specific content, lessons, and instructional tips.
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‍Key Benefits:

  • Cover key standards and initiatives designed to meet your unique state and district priorities

Best Used For:

  • Teaching state history 
  • Covering state content mandates
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New features to support daily instruction

Keep every student engaged and motivated with dynamic activities, customized practice, and targeted support—all year long.

Create and deliver dynamic activities for any subject

Champion’s Challenge: Spark excitement with an interactive game that reinforces learning.
‍Best used for:

  • Bell ringers 
  • Exit tickets 
  • Content review sessions


Present an Activity (Teacher-Paced Mode): Present activities to the whole class with more flexibility and control.
‍Best used for:

  • Whole-class discussions 
  • Scaffolded activities


Equivalencies & Dynamic Variables (Math): Make math more dynamic with numeric question updates.
‍Best used for:

  • Targeted math instruction
Keep students engaged and motivated

Question of the Day: Build daily learning habits with quick, standards-aligned questions. 
‍Best used for:

  • Daily warm-ups
  • Promoting consistent, bite-sized practice


Practice Sets: Empower students with four practice modes—now including “write” mode.
‍Best used for:

  • Self-paced review and skill-building
Deliver targeted support and accommodations

Multilingual Language Support: [Balanced Assessment Suite only] Translate activities into students’ native languages.
‍Best used for:

  • Supporting English language learners


Student Support Tools: Answer choice reduction, spell check, highlighter, and mark for review help teachers differentiate and support diverse student needs.
‍‍Best used for:

  • Scaffolding for students who need fewer options
  • Reducing student distractions from basic errors
  • Helping students break down complex information
  • Supporting test-taking strategies
“The first time that I used Formative during class, I realized the power of its quick results. I could immediately use the color-coded data to differentiate learning in real-time.”

– Teacher in South Dakota

New features to support district-wide assessment

Create and deliver high-quality assessments faster—with greater control, consistency, and richer data to drive smarter decisions.

Create and share common assessments

Item Bank: Use standards-aligned items with real-world content to create high-quality assessments.
‍Best used for:

  • Quickly building standards-aligned assessments


Share Folders: Share folders seamlessly with your team for easy collaboration.
‍‍Best used for:

  • Streamlining resource sharing across Professional Learning Communities and departments
Administer assessments with fidelity

Common Assessment Data-sharing: Enable team-wide access to assessment results.
‍Best used for:

  • Driving data-informed decisions


Browser Security Settings: Customize security settings on common assessments.
‍‍Best used for:

  • Creating consistent testing environments across classrooms
Get actionable insights at a glance

Multi-level Rubric Reporting: See student performance on individual criteria across rubric-scored questions.
‍‍Best used for:

  • Pinpointing specific skill strengths and gaps


Time Spent on Assignments: Track how long students spend on assignments.
‍‍Best used for:

  • Identifying students who may need additional support or scaffolding


Insights: Filter data by building, teacher, and class, now with demographic insights.
‍‍Best used for:

  • Targeting areas for instructional support and intervention
“When I started looking into all the data tracking possibilities and all the question options, I realized how beneficial this was going to be for me as a math teacher. I cannot explain how much time I have now that I am not spending hours creating my own data reports and grading assessments.”

– Teacher in North Carolina

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