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Current Event news stories written for students ages 8-18 There are 3 different site -- junior, tween, & teen

This could be a great resource for finding articles! Teachers can have accounts and assign students to read and respond to articles.

The Smithsonian Tween Tribune is a free resource for teachers and students. It has a huge collection of articles written at various Lexile levels. The articles also come with a quiz to assess comprehension and students can post a comment about what they read.

U.S. and world news all geared toward students in elementary and middle school. Great for current events. Also includes a daily discussion and newsquiz and provides access to archives.

CommonLit organizes the content on its site by theme. Teachers search for a theme related to what they are teaching (e.g. fear, resilience, love or greed). Once they've selected a theme, they can view the texts that have been paired with that theme at a range of reading levels from elementary into high school. The texts include everything from famous speeches, historical documents, news articles to poems and stories.