One of my favorite sources, and one that I use regularly, is Newsela. This resource is great for a lot of things, but what it truly excels at is creating differentiated informational texts on a variety of topics including current events. One of my challenges as an English teacher is to introduce my students to enough information text and also to differentiate for my vast range of students. Newsela makes both of those tasks much easier. For example, I give my students articles that I think will be interesting or relevant to them for their homework assignments, at a variety of different reading levels, and I assign articles that relate to our units or provide additional context about a person, event or time period. This screencap shows two of the articles that I have saved and used over time, and you can see that they fall into both categories. The other thing that you can do is curate and assign text sets online. I generally print my articles for students, but you can assign them digitally and they also have the targeted CCSS standard and questions embedded in the article. Truly, this resource is amazing!
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