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Love the ideas of making annotations.   Funny I had been using the colors in the directions for students to do the highlighting (ie: red -confusing words, green- topic sentence- yellow- a connection you can make to the text.  When using it in reverse, I think it will be more specific / targeted for students.

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I really liked the gallery walk activity. It's such a cool way to use Newsela beyond the computer.

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I really liked the gallery walk activity. It's such a cool way to use Newsela beyond the computer.

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LOVE annotations and being able to tailor to specific questions and using emojis!!!

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LOVE annotations and being able to tailor to specific questions and using emojis!!!

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LOVED:
Speed Dating
Gallery Walk
Newsela Bingo (for introducing Newsela and features)

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I have used this strategy when using Google Docs for shorter texts and modeled in the classroom so this will dovetail nicely since my students are already familiar with this technique employing it in Newsela.  

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I have used this strategy when using Google Docs for shorter texts and modeled in the classroom so this will dovetail nicely since my students are already familiar with this technique employing it in Newsela.  

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I love the work that can be done in partners for peer editing and the resources available to structure responses and guide students in reflectively considering each other's responses.

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I love being able to tailor questions to my student's needs.  

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I love being able to tailor questions to my student's needs.  

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I love this tool because the students can write their immediate response to "wondering questions"

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I love this tool because the students can write their immediate response to "wondering questions"

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We do a lot of research training with our science students. Newsela is a new resource for us to use with them. I can't wait to share this with the teachers!!

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Teachers could use the binder to identify student strengths and areas of need during their CLT meetings. Teachers could then create assignments that correspond to the average area of need for that particular grade level and group of students.

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Teachers could use the binder to identify student strengths and areas of need during their CLT meetings. Teachers could then create assignments that correspond to the average area of need for that particular grade level and group of students.

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I love the idea of a student being able to immediately stop and jot as they are reading an article. It keeps the student engaged while reading and helps them to reflect and question as they go.

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Having the students review their binder helps with self reflection

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I enjoyed learning how to use and visualize progress of my students over the course of school year.  It's also great that students can chart their progress and see things within their binders.  

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I enjoyed learning how to use and visualize progress of my students over the course of school year.  It's also great that students can chart their progress and see things within their binders.  

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If you explicitly teach students how to use their binder, they can see how they are doing, and reflect on their progress.

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I love gallery walks and the idea of incorporating an article.  Also speed dating, I can see this working in a content area as well, maybe as a review of material.  The frames and note sheets for EL is such an added bonus! Great stuff!

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I love gallery walks and the idea of incorporating an article.  Also speed dating, I can see this working in a content area as well, maybe as a review of material.  The frames and note sheets for EL is such an added bonus! Great stuff!

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Gretchen

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As a librarian, we've done speed dating with books, but we've never used it as a questioning technique. I love how this would get students engaged in short, intense discussions.  I think it's incredibly valuable to have the question stems provided.

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Annotating in Newsela is new to me, but I would love to incorporate them at the start of the year when launching reading workshop to support quality stop and jot writing. If we posted a student-friendly stop and jot micro-progression chart, students can have a common piece that could be cross curricular and vertically aligned if all English teachers in the building use the same annotation level chart.

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The binder is a great tool to help us manage student progress and support students as they set reading goals.

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Speed Dating, Gallery Walk, Question Scaffolds

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Speed Dating, Gallery Walk, Question Scaffolds

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Love the variety of strategies to extend Newsela beyond just reading articles and answering questions online

Melissa

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I haven't had my students annotate within Newsela, but I love this idea! I also love how the sentence supporters provide a scaffold for the students.

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Identifying and Analyzing a Common Theme Across Multiple Newsela Texts with Secondary Students

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Identifying and Analyzing a Common Theme Across Multiple Newsela Texts with Secondary Students

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My favorite thing about this lesson: the comparison handouts. They show the SAME kinds of criteria across genres/types of texts. That's the sort of consistency that supports EL and reading students. - Laura G.

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I have not had my students do annotations in Newsela yet. I would like to have them watch the video to learn about annotations and take time to teach them the types of annotations from the chart provided. This will be a great way to mix up how I use Newsela with my students.

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The sentence starters are very helpful to get students going on an annotation.  I like that the reminders of color coding are in the video too.

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I enjoyed and learned how to create annotations based upon specific information in article.

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I enjoyed and learned how to create annotations based upon specific information in article.

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I loved the "hands on" explanation in order to create annotations in a lesson.

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I loved the "hands on" explanation in order to create annotations in a lesson.

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The research planning page gives students a one stop place for all their information. It even marries well with the QFT resource because students can record their top 3 questions in the space. I can see the power of students color coding information related to their questions in their research from their Newsela articles (teacher could make a text set related to their topics). A Google Doc could be made for students to paste their annotations into the research planning page.

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I like the Research Planning Page - super straightforward and simple for students to use to organize information as they begin their research.

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I like the way the handout lists 4 levels of annotation, and they are expressed clearly. I would walk students through this process as a group a couple of times before releasing responsibility, and would revisit it as a class. I think it would easily lend itself to group work as well.

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I have been assigning articles for my students and wanted to begin giving them choice in what they read but didn't know how to access or find the results of what they read. Using the Reading Summary tab, I am able to see results from individual students rather than just specific articles.

I also love how students can track their progress and see results of all their hard work!

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The Binder is a key to supporting learning.  Teachers can analyze skill strenghts and weakness and personalize lesson to help students improve in the skill they need the most help with.  I also like how the Binder can show growth which will provide data to support that learning has occurred.

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The Binder is a key to supporting learning.  Teachers can analyze skill strenghts and weakness and personalize lesson to help students improve in the skill they need the most help with.  I also like how the Binder can show growth which will provide data to support that learning has occurred.

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Gretchen

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Digital Gallery Walk

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I cn start helping students to dive deeper into their analysis of the information and taking ownership of their own learning.

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I like the sentence starters for annotating. I think this would be helpful for students in what things they can focus on while they are reading.

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I like this as a repository of lesson ideas. I will definitely revisit it from time to time to keep things fresh.

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I can start using annotations more and have the students use the rubric to look at each other's annotations.

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This can be especially useful in my class because I can see if the students actually understood the question as well as gauging how well their writing skills are.

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It's always helpful to use critical writing to help process information and the stop and jot feature is a great way to take notes on reading. It's very useful to guide this process with prompts. For every 10 minutes of learning, a student needs 2 minutes of processing time (10/2 theory). Also, according to the primacy/recency theory, students only retain what they learn in the beginning and end of a lesson, so it makes sense to chunk the lessons (i.e., stop and jot) before moving on. It also provides a ideal time to plan a "seed question" to assess where your students are in their learning. If a teacher already has "seed questions" this would be a great place to modify the assignment to add those in.

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The student binder empowers student  ownership of their goals.
It allows the student and teacher to have more meaningful conversations that are not focused on grades and are focused, instead, on learning.

Also, the data conversation protocol is a valuable tool that CLTs can use to guide instruction.

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Using the binder, I can see student progress which can help with differentiation and seeing where and how I can support students.

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I too like the use of "Do Now" and "Stop & Jot" to connect the assignment to paper & pen learning and using the internet as a source of knowledge / research.

Also, the resources provided provide scaffolding to help students begin their study and fully understand how they will be graded.

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Ensures that students all have a voice.  Also students are not simply copying and pasting information, but must develop their own thoughts and thereby are developing their own knowledge structures in their brain.

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Speed dating-improves discussion on a specific topic.
Jigsaw-cooperative learning activities
Gallery Walk-gives students a chance to respond to a variety of aspects of a unit/topic

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The Research Planning Page give a one-stop shop which can be given to all students, but still allows individual choice within a topic range. It can be used to give students a record of their sources and the information they derived from each.

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Stop and Jot and Do Now to find search terms

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Stop and Jot and Do Now to find search terms

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In the assignment for #1 students would use a term they find in the assigned article (i.e., "self-driving cars") to then copy and paste the term into the search box to find other articles that have the same search terms. I think students already know how to do this in Google, but it is helpful to show them they can also do this in a curated database like Newsela.

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For differentiation purposes we can scaffold students based off of their needs. For example: a student that needs more support may be given a direct question to answer in an annotation while a student that has high readiness can have more freedom with types of annotations.

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I would encourage the use of Stop and Jot to aid students in looking at text in a deeper more meaningful way. As the students move through the progression they are able to back up their understanding of the text with supporting details to aid in comprehension.

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The explicit connection between video games and the value of annotations will engage students.  I will use this as a tool and then we can move from there to practicing and evaluating a partner's annotations.

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Teachers are able to analyze student information to help with remediation and support. Students have accountability as they are able to see what areas they need support in as well.

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My students are learning about famous poets so I can do the body map as a potential assignment

The networking sheet is also neat in getting students to talk to people that they would not normally talk to.

Laslty, metacognition is very important in helping students figure out what they did wrong on a questoin and providing them with tools that can lead to more successful answers in the future.

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We can use the Binder to support student learning in several ways. The student binder gives them accountability, and the chance to gain ownership over their own reading choices and reviewing of targeted skills. The teacher binder allows us to group students in various ways either by skill level or need for scaffolding.

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Analyze specific

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Students are able to view their progress on specific skills, as well as their strengths and weaknesses. They can also search for articles that will help them practice specific skills.

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Students are able to view their progress on specific skills, as well as their strengths and weaknesses. They can also search for articles that will help them practice specific skills.

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Students can see their strengths and weaknesses in relationship to certain skills. We liked that it was reflective in the fact that students could search articles based off of those skills.