Independent Student Work

Students and teachers often use Newsela for various kinds of independent work, including choice reading and research projects.

Newsela considers any work that is not tied to an assignment created by a teacher for a Newsela classroom independent work.

Any time a student completes work in Newsela, it is tied to their account. All of a student's teachers with subscriptions can view a student's completed assigned and independent work in their Binder.

As a teacher, you can add multiple articles to an assignment that you can then assign to your classes on Newsela. This allows you to curate a wide selection of articles and give students choices on what they’d like to read.

You can review work from these assignments in the Assignments tab of your Binder.

Assign Multiple Articles from A Text Set

  1. Find a Text Set you want to assign and click Create Assignment.

  2. This will take you to the assignment page, where you select the class (or classes) for the assignment. You’ll also see three optional steps: Adding instructions, adjusting the reading level your students will see, and removing articles.

  3. Click Assign Now. 

Assign Multiple Articles

  1. Search or browse Newsela for content that aligns to the subject you'd like to teach.

  2. Click an article, and click

  3. Create Assignment.

  4. This will take you to the assignment page, where you select the class (or classes) for the assignment. You’ll also see three optional steps: Adding instructions, adjusting the reading level your students will see, and removing articles.

  5. Click Assign Now. 

  6. Search or browse for additional articles to locate and vet assignment-appropriate content.

  7. Click the down arrow next to the blue "Assign" button, and select "Add to Assignment."

  8. Select the assignment to which this article relates.