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8th grade students research current events and share their responses via their class wiki. This broadens their audience to their peers, thus impacting their own evaluation of their work and their peers' work.

This website is very popular with English Language Learner teachers. It has articles divided by level of difficulty and with comprehension questions. It also has many current and relevant articles

This is a great resource for both current events and informative articles pertaining to technology. The pictures, descriptions, and definitions are invaluable for learning hard-to-grasp concepts.

Lexile leveled current events, lesson plans, quizzes, assessments

(I accessed this one through the BSU library; it required a login) This article was geared toward technology leaders and information literacy specialists in schools and discussed the need for them to have access to the most current information. This could apply to any educator, though. They provide five reasons why librarians need PLNs: access to the thinking of colleagues, access to timely information, ability to post questions and get responses, ability to collaborate with colleagues, and to be able to communicate about events. Each of these is discussed in detail, and management tips for effective participation in a PLN are provided as well. This is a clear resource that makes a convincing argument of why educators need social-media based PLNs.

Big fan of the Newsela website application. This web-based app gives you unlimited access to hundreds of leveled news articles and Common Core-aligned quizzes. It's adaptive, and constantly being updated with great new features, like annotations, spanish translations, reading clubs, novel articles, and so much more. If any of you in this group would like to explore a Pro account, please let me know.

Unlimited access to hundreds of leveled news articles and Common Core-aligned quizzes, with new articles every day.

Unlimited access to hundreds of leveled news articles and Common Core-aligned quizzes, with new articles every day.

This website gives teachers free access to lesson plans and videos that connect to different content areas. The lessons vary from online or offline work and they often provide way to integrate current events into any classroom.

News sorted by color

Great current event news for science. Stories include pictures, videos, and vocabulary words. Students love to hear about what is up and coming.

Current events stories that can be modified to reading levels. Differentiation at its finest. Every student can be reading the same story, just tailored to their reading level. Comprehension questions also included with each story.

Facebook's founder, Mark Zuckerberg highlights the ways in which we are all connected in society and the various communities we are linked with. Mark emphasizes the need to continue to network and stay connected. Our history is based on connections in society and we have continued to grow. Although only one platform to grow from, Mark's Facebook Community has offered our society and people countless opportunities to connect and grow personally and professionally.