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Drive Meaningful Literacy Outcomes

Give teachers relevant, real-world content combined with AI-powered scaffolds and real-time reporting insights to make literacy outcomes a reality for every learner.

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Accelerate literacy gains with a proven solution

Give teachers real-world content, Luna-powered AI scaffolds, and real-time reporting insights to make literacy outcomes a reality for every learner.

Drive literacy outcomes with real-world content, knowledge-building, and skills practice

Extensive content coverage

Choose from thousands of curated texts and videos to help students build background knowledge on any topic, book, or theme covered in class.
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Time-saving tools to amplify instruction

From lesson content suggestions that save teachers time to AI-powered graphic organizers to deepen student comprehension, Newsela ELA uses purposeful AI to support a variety of instructional needs.
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Grow every learner with powerful scaffolds and activities

Content available at five reading levels, Checks for Understanding, Guided highlighting, a text translator scaffold and more to encourage close reading and help students engage in active learning.

Standards-aligned assessment

Use authentic, real-world content with standards-aligned assessments to practice skills without sacrificing engagement.
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Reporting

Get real time insights into student progress and product usage to identify learning needs and strengthen instruction.
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Skills for college, career, and civic readiness

Practice digital citizenship, media literacy skills, and C3 inquiry skills with curated text sets. Write prompts and comprehension quizzes on every text help students practice a variety of skills.
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Drive literacy outcomes with real-world content, knowledge-building, and skills practice

Coming soon! Generation Genius ELA Video Lessons

Newsela ELA’s rich content is expanding to engage K-5 students!

  • Videos that feature lovable characters, explicit instruction, and purposeful repetition.
  • Supporting instructional materials that reinforce video learning.
  • High-quality content developed by our expert teams.
  • ELA topics covered that range from phonemic awareness and parts of speech, to using context clues and theme or central message.

Individual articles and collections

Our content library of over 18,000 pieces of content cover a range of curricular topics and student interests and include collections dedicated to helping students build background knowledge on any topic, book, or theme covered in class.

  • Novel and Book Studies support over 500 of the most commonly taught books.
  • Curriculum Complements align with commonly taught curricula.
  • Decodables for older readers rebuild foundational literacy skills.
  • Over 175+ content partners provide authentic, diverse perspectives in any lesson.

Get time-saving support with AI tools

Newsela ELA uses purposeful AI through your AI-powered assistant Luna to support a variety of instructional needs and student supports.

  • Lesson Planner quickly instructionalizes Newsela content.
  • Graphic organizers generate ready-made, editable, digitally assignable PDFs.
  • Text leveler instantly adapts any text to desired levels. 
  • In-paragraph text translations support multilingual learners.

Drive instruction forward with data

Get a real-time look at student progress and product usage to identify learning needs and strengthen instruction.

  • Usage report shows how your usage aligns with recommendations from our efficacy studies.
  • Drill-down pages detail school and teacher usage.
  • Teacher reporting shows class and study activity and skills progress.
  • Student reporting lets students review their progress.

Newsela ELA Overview

Want a closer look at how Newsela ELA uses content-rich instruction to drive literacy outcomes?

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Proven to drive positive literacy outcomes

proven to drive positive literacy outcomes

Students who read and take quizzes twice per week on Newsela ELA see four additional months of literacy skill growth by the end of the school year.

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Customize Newsela ELA with popular add-ons like The Newsela SEL Collection. Or have our team of experts create a custom resource just for you!

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Our instructional and assessment tools—plus a library of +18,000 differentiated, authentic texts and videos from +175 trusted providers that cover a range of curricular topics and student interests—support every lesson.

Frequently Asked Questions

How can Newsela ELA help my school or district meet state ELA standards?

Newsela ELA aligns with state ELA standards, including Common Core, TEKS, and more. Our team tags every article, quiz, and lesson activity with the standards it supports. 

Administrators and teachers can use the reporting dashboards to see how students are progressing at the individual class, grade, school, or district level, ensuring that every learner is on track to meet grade-level expectations.

How does Newsela ELA improve student literacy outcomes?

Our efficacy studies prove that students who read and take quizzes on Newsela ELA just twice a week gain up to four extra months of literacy growth compared to their peers who don’t use it.

Research from our ESSA Tier II and other validity studies also confirms that student performance on Newsela ELA correlates with NWEA MAP Growth scores, making it a proven tool for boosting reading comprehension and skills across your district.

How does Newsela ELA support struggling readers and English learners?

Newsela ELA is built for differentiation! Our texts are available at five reading levels to make grade-level concepts accessible to all students. Teachers can also use features like audio support and annotations, plus  Guided Highlighting, in-article Checks for Understanding, and in-paragraph translations powered by Luna, your AI assistant. 

Vocabulary scaffolds, like our Power Words activities, and customizable graphic organizers help English learners and struggling readers engage more deeply with the content without compromising rigor.

What kind of reporting and data tools does Newsela ELA use?

Newsela ELA includes real-time reporting dashboards that let administrators and teachers monitor student progress at the individual, class, school, or district level. You can track assignment completion, quiz scores, and standards mastery.

Administrators can export reports for MTSS/RTI interventions and use data to guide professional development and curriculum decisions. These insights make it easy to see what’s working and where students need extra support.

What is Luna AI, and how does this tool support teachers who use Newsela ELA?

Luna is your AI-powered assistant that helps teachers save time while still personalizing instruction. Luna can generate scaffolded lesson plans, customizable graphic organizers, power in-article translations, and fuel guided highlighting. Luna can even level any text on the web (even those from outside Newsela!).

Teachers can review and adjust Luna’s suggestions, allowing them to keep complete control of instruction while making lesson planning faster and smarter.

How much does Newsela ELA cost, and what’s included in a district subscription?

Pricing for Newsela ELA depends on your district’s size, the number of schools, and any add-ons purchased, such as Newsela Writing

A typical subscription includes:

  • Full access to our library of 18,000+ texts and multimodal resources.
  • Standards-aligned quizzes and writing prompts.
  • Luna-powered AI supports.
  • Administrator and teacher data dashboards.
  • LMS/SIS integrations like Clever, ClassLink, Google Classroom, Canvas, or Schoology.
  • Professional learning support.

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