Unlock student motivation, inspire teachers, and drive long-lasting learning outcomes in Illinois.
From building student knowledge and skills in core subject areas to supporting daily instruction and assessment, Newsela helps Illinois teachers engage, support, and grow every learner.
We know that Illinois students have Illinois-specific needs. Here's how Newsela supports some of the learning priorities that are local to you.
Newsela's products provide teachers with authentic, high-quality content, while ensuring compliance with Illinois Learning Standards. Search filters help them find the content they need, alongside quizzes to practice assessed reading skills.
Use Newsela and Formative’s customized question types aligned to IAR item types to get real-time insights and identify where students need extra support.
Tailor instruction to the needs of your unique classrooms and communities with collections that support Illinois state history and content mandates, enhance existing curriculum, and tools that ensure teachers and students use the right content.
Whether your teachers are in social studies, math, science, or ELA classrooms, they can choose from thousands of curated texts on any topic, book, or theme to help students build background knowledge and practice reading skills with embedded formative activities.
Newsela's vast library of content supports knowledge building, provides frequent formative assessment opportunities, and supports scaffolds to develop key language comprehension skills, like background knowledge and vocabulary, that are essential but often missed in science of reading implementation.
Included in the extensive Newsela Social Studies library, educators will find state-specific collections specifically designed to help them create learning experiences that resonate with students' lives and cover essential standards and initiatives.
Schedule a demo today to get a deeper dive into how Newsela supports your local needs.
Deliver engaging lessons that encourage students to practice skills, build knowledge, and include diverse perspectives.
Prepare the next generation of citizens with relevant and responsive materials, all in one place.
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Save teacher's time and help students become better writers with real-time, rubric-aligned feedback in grades 4-12.
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"Having a tool that allows us to use audio in an assessment has been life-changing, especially for our English learners and Modern Language students. We used to try to smash apps together to do this, so the fact that it can now be in one spot is really nice."
Director of Innovation and Accountability, JS Morton High School District 201
“The fact that the content would change in response to not only our teachers, but also our students—and that you could bring the past to the present, and vice versa—that’s what really won us over.”
Director of Curriculum, Elmhurst Community Unit School District #205
“The engagement level with Newsela content is completely different from other resources. The quality of the content that students are getting is better than ever.”
Coordinator of Secondary Literacy and Libraries, Elgin Area School District U-46
See what your fellow educators have to say about using Newsela's products to power their classrooms.
"Having a tool that allows us to use audio in an assessment has been life-changing, especially for our English learners and Modern Language students. We used to try to smash apps together to do this, so the fact that it can now be in one spot is really nice."
