This website has many resources organized by a teacher and a group of "at risk" students to empower students through reading and writing about historical and personal situations they can relate to.
Daily news articles written at multiple levels of complexity in order to provide a text that is accessible to students with ranges of abilities. Just click the appropriate Lexile on the right side of the page. There is an optional quiz for each article, and an ability to assign articles and track activity for groups of students.