- Adaptation of Lexile Level
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[…] I presented a session where I showed teachers my blended unit called The Grown Up Project. I designed the unit while taking a MOOC-Ed course through the Friday Institute. You can check out my project at the provided links, but it seems that most participants seemed to really fall in love with Newsela. If you are not familiar with Newsela, it is essentially a site that posts current news stories but adapts them to five different Lexile levels to targets a wide range student reading proficiencies. My admiration of Newsela and its work is well-documented in this blog post. […]
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[…] the highest (generally the original article) will be about a 12th grade reading level. For this and several other reasons, Newsela serves many literacy needs for teachers and […]
[…] After rotating through all three charts, they checked off words that they believed related to the meanings of the morphemes con, de, and sens. Then, students looked for the word patterns in their reading using Newsela’s highlighting feature. […]