Newsela — (Grades 2-5) This site provides current event articles on various reading levels (sports, health, science, arts, kids, etc). Each day there are new articles that you can assign to your class (or read in small groups). Each article has about 5 different reading levels (by lexile level)…so students can read about the same topic at their own level. There are quizzes students can take, and best of all, there is a search bar that allows a teacher to search for articles that relate to certain reading skills (Author’s Purpose/Point of View, Text Structure, Central Idea, etc). It might be another resource to add to the list of ways to engage your students in Reading.
Blendspace — (All Grades) Love, love this resource! Blendspace allows you to create collections of web resources on a certain topic (videos, websites, pictures, etc). This resource would be great to use with your students in the computer lab, as a small station within your classroom, or even as a way to organize materials you will present to your students on your Activboard. You can add quizzes and monitor student progress too, if you want. There are even tons of lessons already available that you can use immediately with your students. We are going to be encouraging you to move away from Portaportal (due to all the ads), and this is an excellent resource to take its place. 🙂
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