Newsela Writing: Getting Started
How do teachers and students access Newsela Writing?
Newsela Writing's Beta experience is currently included with a premium subscription (Newsela ELA, Newsela Science, and Newsela Social Studies). If your school or district has purchased Newsela Premium licenses, teachers and students will have access to Newsela Writing's Beta as part of that license until July 2025.
After July 2025, Newsela Writing will be offered for purchase as an Add-on to a premium subscription. If your school or district has purchased Newsela Premium licenses and is interested in purchasing Newsela Writing for the 2025-2026 school year, please reach out to your dedicated Newsela customer success manager or send our support team a message here, for more information.
Teachers and students will need Newsela accounts in order to use Newsela Writing.
For teachers with a premium subscription who need to add their students to Newsela, we recommend following the instructions outlined here.
Teachers with a Newsela Lite account who start a free trial of Newsela Premium will have access to Newsela Writing's Beta experience as part of their free trial as long as it lasts and until July 2025 to the latest.
Teachers with a Newsela Essentials license do not have access to Newsela Writing because this licensing is not a premium subject subscription.
How do teachers and students navigate to Newsela Writing?
You can navigate to Newsela Writing in two ways:
Use the “product switcher” in the upper left-hand corner of the Newsela masthead.
Go directly to Newsela Writing here
How do I get my students started on Newsela Writing?
To get your students into Newsela Writing for the first time:
Log in with your Newsela account here (If you do not have a Newsela account yet, click "Sign Up" and follow the instructions here to create a new teacher account)
Create an assignment here
Share the assignment link with your students
When they click on the link they will be asked to log in to Newsela. If they are already logged in they will go straight to the assignment
Once students are logged in they can immediately start writing and receiving feedback
You can navigate through your student’s work to monitor their progress
How to add students to classes?
Newsela Writing uses Newsela’s student rosters. To roster students in Newsela Writing, you need to roster them in Newsela first. For more help, view the instructions for how to roster students in other Newsela products.