the site newsela.com This site takes news stories and allows you to change the reading level for a particular story. Topic listings include: war & peace; science; law; health; arts; money and kids.
The site is in beta right now and is free. You do need to create an account. For those of you who want to find nonfiction articles for your classes this is one way of doing it. Our databases are another source for nonfiction articles.
This is the new online civics class that was developed by former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor to help reverse Americans' declining civic knowledge and participation.
Meet the Common Core with 76 new science passages and question sets to teach K-8 reading comprehension
- Use for independent work, small-group work, whole-class lessons, or teacher read-aloud lessons