Pocket + Evernote: Easy way for teachers to format news articles and nonfiction
If you’re a teacher, you know this story. It’s Sunday night, and you have a pit in your stomach because you still haven’t found a good articl...
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Get Your Students to Love the News, #3: Newsela meets kids at their reading level
Imagine my joy when I found out about Newsela, a website that modifies the vocabulary and syntax of news articles to match the reading levels of students. I wi...
Get Your Students to Love the News, #2: Circa explains current events concisely
Update, Sept. 2014: This post is now out of date, thanks to circa’s 3.0 update, which is beautiful! But most of the post still stands. Yes, it makes me c...
Get Your Students to Love the News, #1: Umano caters to those who like to listen
I love current events, and newspapers make me happy, and I spend a lot of time reading nonfiction articles online. (Maybe too much sometimes.) It’s super...
Dezmond and Ramir: New York Times winners!
A few posts ago, I challenged readers to help me give a graduation gift — a three-month subscription to The New York Times — to two lucky students,...