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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Newsela is a website designed to help students build close reading and critical thinking skills by offering news articles, from
<a href="https://newsela.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/226656-where-do-the-articles-come-from">
reputable sources</a>, each rewritten at five different Lexile levels. The site also offers quizzes and ways for teachers to track students’ participation and progress. This is a free resource, but users must register to read articles. Note that you can preview
up to four articles without registering.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"> <a href="http://www.newsela.com/">
<span style="color:blue">http://www.newsela.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Newsela is sponsoring a Summer Reading Challenge from June 16<sup>th</sup> – August 18<sup>th</sup>. From Joyce Valenza’s
<i>SLJ</i> blog posting, “Students earn points and <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-style:normal">quirky, colorful badges</span></em><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
</span></em>for completing a range of mini-challenges based on article assignments.<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-style:normal">”
</span></em>Many of the instructions and guidelines for the challenge are geared towards teachers, but this would be a great activity to promote in public libraries. Common Core emphasizes reading informational text, and news articles are good sources of that
and help develop youth’s interest in current events.<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-style:normal"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"><a href="https://newsela.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/370171-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-summer-readi"><span style="color:blue">https://newsela.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/370171-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-summer-readi</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"><a href="http://blogs.slj.com/neverendingsearch/2014/06/26/newsela-free-summer-reading-challenge/"><span style="color:blue">blogs.slj.com/neverendingsearch/2014/06/26/newsela-free-summer-reading-challenge</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Note that for students to sign up, they need a code that they get from a parent who has registered. <br>
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If students don’t know their Lexile reading level, one can get a very rough estimate from this grade equivalent chart, and that can be used as a starting point. That being said, it should be noted that MetaMetrics, the company behind Lexiles, does not like
to compare Lexile ratings to grade equivalents. The page with the chart explains more about that.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="https://www.lexile.com/about-lexile/grade-equivalent/grade-equivalent-chart/">https://www.lexile.com/about-lexile/grade-equivalent/grade-equivalent-chart/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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At a minimum, Newsela might be worth sharing with teachers as you work with them throughout the school year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">FYI,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Jen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">Jennifer Maurer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">School Library Consultant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">Oregon State Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">250 Winter Street NE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">Salem, OR 97301<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">503.378.5011<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue"><a href="mailto:jennifer.maurer@state.or.us"><span style="color:blue">jennifer.maurer@state.or.us</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">OSLIS ||
<a href="www.oslis.org"><span style="color:blue">www.oslis.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">Learn to research. Research to learn.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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