Newsela LITE

Four leveled news articles that have been hand-selected by Newsela staff for teachers to choose from at any given time. Each article will be available for four weeks before it expires and is replaced with another timely piece of news content. You will also have access to the data and information you need to make instructional decisions.

• Access an alternating collection of free news articles selected by Newsela staff, offered at 5 reading levels. 

• See alignment to state standards on articles

• Create assignments for all active and non-expired articles

• Schedule assignments and set due dates

• Select and lock reading levels for students

• Access students' quiz scores 

• Customize and respond to students’ write prompt submissions and annotations

• Integration with Formative is available to all users, regardless of subscription or plan type. You will continue to have access to your Formative account and will be able to assign formatives related to available and non-expired articles from your Newsela account. 

• Connect to Google Classroom - Newsela Lite account holders can continue to sync their classes with Google Classroom and utilize Google SSO, as long as Newsela has been configured as a trusted app in Google Classroom by their district.