Websites for News Articles / Nonfiction
Why use news articles in the classroom?
-Using “real” news articles engage students
-Students are more apt to read an article with the newspaper’s masthead appearing at the top of the selection.
-Articles are often short or easy to chunk which allows for easy scaffolding as needed
-Great companion pieces for literary and other non-fiction reading
-Use of different articles on same topic differentiates for reading level variation
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