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Having the "same" text written for different levels of English comprehension can be a life-saver for a multi-level class of English Language Learners or for a teacher with a mainstream class that includes some students that are facing other challenges. They can be an important tool for differentiation.

But where do you get these different versions other than creating them yourself?

Here are a few sources, and I hope that readers will suggest more:

Newsela provides several "levels" of the same newspaper articles, along with accompanying online quizzes, that students can read and take. For a small fee, Teachers can create a virtual classroom, assign articles and monitor student progress. However, students can read the articles for free without having to pay anything.

News In Levels offers similar resources, but without the ability to track student progress online. The site is free.

For The Teachers has similar leveled articles available for download. It, too, is free.
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Text Compactor lets you paste text into it and then automatically shares different versions with fewer words. It seemed to work pretty well when I tried it.

Rewordify is like a super-sophisticated Text Compactor on steroids. You can read my previous post about it: "Rewordify" Is One Of The Most Unique Sites Out There For English Language Learners & Others.

Reader Laurie suggests Embedded Reading, which has these kinds of similar "leveled" texts in English, as well as in other languages.

I learned about CommonLit from the amazing educator Suzie Boss at her recent Edutopia post. It's a neat site that doesn't actually provide the "same" text written for different "levels." What it does do, however, is provide leveled readings - with prompts - on the same theme. It's pretty neat. (They've just added many new features - see "CommonLit" Now Lets Teachers Create Free Virtual Classrooms)

Books That Grow has a library of texts that have each been edited to be made accessible to different reading levels. And it has some other unique features - teachers can create virtual classrooms to assign and/or monitor what students what are reading and students can click on words that are new to them to see definitions and hear how they are pronounced. They are also planning on adding comprehension questions. The texts can be read on any device.

Thanks to reader Vincy Murgillo for letting me know about the Smithsonian's Tween Tribune. It provides daily news stories, with the same one edited several times for different reading levels. The stories also have self-scoring quizzes and provide decent "critical thinking" questions that students can respond to in the comments. On top of that, teachers can create virtual classrooms to monitor it all, as well as moderating student comments. And it's all available for free!

You have to pay for it, but Birdbrain Science and History have similar resources (they've changed their name to RocketLit).

Newsela, which is on this list, has now begun to provide Spanish translations of some articles, including providing them at different reading levels. Here is their blog post announcing the feature, and here's a link to their Spanish-language text sets.
The British Council Has Excellent Leveled Reading Resources "TIME/Edge" Could Be Useful For Students Over The Summer
Kids Discover has several levels for social studies instruction - for a price that does not seem to be unreasonable.
"Simplish" Automatically Simplifies And/Or Summarizes Text "ReadWorks" Now Provides "Same" Texts At Different Level
Scholastic has a small number of audio-supported same text at different levels (they also have a few more here). In addition, their Storyworks program has many more, though it costs about $8 per student to use.

Thanks to Christina Cabal's blog (which is on the The Top Blogs and Resource Sites For Teachers Of English Language Learners list), I've learned about a new site called Learn With News. It provides articles about current events, which each one having three versions at different lexile levels. They also provide questions for each article. However, they are not interactive online, so you would need to either print them out or project them. The site also says they will soon be adding audio support for the text.
"Freckle" Provides Hundreds Of Articles In "5 or more different reading levels" "News-O-Matic" Is Definitely A Site I Would Consider Using With Students Right Now "TIME FOR KIDS" NOW OFFERS MATERIALS IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGES, SAME ARTICLE IN DIFFERENT LEXILE LEVELS
Graded listening is a radio program from the British Council that is provided in three "lexile" levels.

Transforming the Resources You Have into Accessible Formats for All Students is an excellent post by Carmen Nguyen.

Brittanica Kids has all of its articles written in three different levels: Kids, Students, Scholars. There is a cost involved, but a lot of their resources are available for free. For example, I found this article on The Compromise of 1850 that I'll be using in my ELL U.S. History class. They also have a small collection of free "read aloud" books for new readers. I'm not sure what the restrictions are about what's free and what's for subscribers only.
The OER Project Offers The Same Social Studies Texts In Different Lexile Levels - For Free!
I think a lot of teachers will find this post from TESOL useful: Create Your Own Leveled Readers.

The Juice offers daily news articles at four different levels. You have to pay for it, though it's not astronomical.

This is a good list-I'd add that Scholastic Action (needs purchasing) is a hit with Middle & High #ELs newcomer to advanced. It includes different lexile versions. With engaging graphics, digital supplements, & access to past issues and it's easy to build high interest units.

- Holly Sawyer (@HollySawyerESL) October 31, 2021

VERY GOOD VIDEO ON "TEXT ENGINEERING" TO MAKE IT MORE ACCESSIBLE TO ELLS & EVERYBODY ELSE
What makes writing more readable? is a really interesting interactive from The Pudding. It illustrates - graphically - how to write in a more accessible way.

News2You provides weekly news articles in four different levels. It costs about $240 annually.
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Q: What do we really want from project-based learning?

A: We want students to care about this subject. To really, truly care about it from their own student perspectives. To engage the active learning parts of their brains and the moral imperative for the work.

Entry events are usually dreamed up during the planning stages of project-based learning. They're just as much a part of PBL as the research, rubrics, and community connections.

So what can an entry event look like?

Take a field trip and ask a question

Take students someplace outside the classroom, either into the community or around the world, and ask them a challenging question. Ask them to consider something that might never have occurred to them, such as, "What would the community do if this resource was not here, or was unusable?"

At a historical site, ask "How could our community engage more with this place?"

At a landfill you could ask, "What will happen when this landfill is full?"

Students at Proctor Elementary School, in Proctor, Vermont, kicked off their project-based learning unit by visiting the WCAX television studios. Students will research extreme weather conditions and prepare virtual weather reports using a green screen, so they were unbelievably jazzed to get to see behind-the-scenes of how WCAX researches and produces their weather reports for broadcast.

Field trips can be real world or virtual

There are so many thought-provoking videos now on YouTube and TeacherTube that can be used to get students thinking.

Or try some of the new virtual reality tools, such as Google Cardboard. How can you leverage the empathy virtual reality can engender to make your question more powerful?

Do something dramatic!

Do something surprising in your classroom! Spread out a tarp and dump out your class's trash out for all to see. How many recyclables are in there? How many compostables?

About to jump into a renewable energy PBL? Work with your school admins to cut electricity to the classroom for a day (okay just a period) and work through some everyday activities without it.

Renewable energy and food sourcing? Have students build their own solar ovens and work out how long it takes to cook an English muffin; extrapolate numbers (mm, math. Tasty, tasty math) to figure out how many solar ovens, how long, under what optimal weather conditions you could generate enough muffins to feed the school. Or just the teachers. No judgment here.

Studying sustainable transportation? Bring in a bike stand and a beater bike, and have students figure out what it would take in terms of time and materials to make it run again. Got shop? Ask your school's shop teacher if your students can invade and poke around an old car while she guides them through necessary maintenance to make it run again. Get hands-on!

Or, do some role-playing: stage a scenario with another teacher.

One teacher I work with just did this to illustrate the concept of what a dictator is and how they can rise to power. He had a partner teacher come in and start giving orders - which students can sit where, which students benefit more than others, what colors they could wear. This certainly got a reaction from students!

Bring current events into the classroom

Grab a news article about a problem in your community you are thinking of exploring. Here is a great resource about invasive species in Vermont, used by a second grade classroom. Or a compelling personal story about a national or international issue could be the entry event, such as this story of a young Syrian refugee in Toronto (a similar story struck a chord with my students).

Does your community have an expert in the PBL topic? Ask that person to come speak with or present to your class on their area of expertise. Everyone loves being asked to share their knowledge!

Students at Hazen Union School kicked off their community-based PBL unit with a visit from a local historian. Students will use the resources she shared to write historical fiction about their town.

Picture books? Yep!

For the younger classes, selecting an exciting read aloud book that launch into a discussion and project might be just the right thing. Thought-provoking books such as The Lorax, or The Sneetches can provide just the right frame and context for PBL with younger classes.

Make an event out of a compelling image

Sometimes a photo is worth a 1,000 words. Humans of New York captures the essence of so many New Yorkers and the American story.

A similar project could be done in any town - in your town, or even your school.

For instance, for a PBL unit on community storytelling or history, make an entry event out of having your students take each others photos and write 50 words describing the thing they most want everyone to know about them. Create a gallery from your photostories displayed in a prominent place in the classroom.

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The Inspiring Excellence Series of six videos, approximately five minutes each, takes us behind the scenes in an extraordinary second grade urban classroom as students create a project of remarkable quality over the course of the year. As part of an interdisciplinary study of snakes, students created an interactive e-book about snakes with narrative informational writing, scientific illustrations, and accompanying music composed and played by student musicians.

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End Product Ideas:

1) Create a magazine

2) Write trivia (Kahoot is a great online trivia game program)

3) Make an interactive exhibit

4) Make a board game

5) Engineer a moving model (ex: demonstrating synaptic transmission)

6) Write a song on a project topic

7) Write a poetry book

8) Create a photo journal

9) Make a scrapbook

10) Write and illustrate a comic

11) Paint a mural

12) Create a gallery (ex: photography, paintings, drawings, sculptures)

13) Hand-make a craft/artifact

14) Design a lesson plan

15) Make a video tutorial

​16) Start a Vlog

17) Write a blog

18) Make a website

19) Produce a podcast

20) Write a screen play

21) Create a storyboard

22) Choreograph an interpretive dance

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24) Work with local legislators to write a bill

25) Make a calendar

26) Organize a mock trial

27) Make a 3D model

28) Make a documentary

29) Write a newsletter

30) Write a news article

31) Write a lab report

32) Artistically perform (dance, song, etc.)

33) Craft Showcase (Ex: handmade bags, scarves, DIY projects, wood working)

34) Make a video promotion

35) Put together a career portfolio (resume, work experience, reference letters, evidence pages)

36) Create a piece of artwork that illustrates the project topic

37) Slideshow about an experience (works well for volunteer experiences, field trips, school travel, etc.)

38) Make a quiz

39) Write a book (biography, short story, novel, etc.)

40) Create an awareness campaign poster

41)  Create a Facebook page (works well for characters in books, business page, or group)

42) Create a spreadsheet portfolio (appropriate for event planning for example)

43) Make charts and graphs (to illustrate survey results for example)

44) Design a t-shirt (school shirt, shirt that raises awareness on an issue, etc.)

45) Make a "Bloom Ball" (check out this fun example and ​bloom ball template)

​46) Make a physical or digital map

47) Make a puzzle

48) Design an escape room

49) Design a travel brochure

50) Make a business card (Ex: for a character in a book, for a business, for volunteering, etc.)

51)  Make a flier

52) Write a journal or diary (on a personal experience such as a health plan)

53) Write an instruction manual

54) Create a theme poster

55) Make a blueprint (floor plan for the setting in a book, one's dream school, interior design)

56) Write a petition

57) Write a persuasive speech

58) Write a business plan

59) Record an interview and publish it

60) Create an online portfolio (for showcasing creative and/or professional work)

61) Create a billboard style advertisement

62) Write and illustrate a children's book

63) Make a concept map

64) Write and perform a monologue

65) Make a simulation (digital, written, performance)

66) Make an animation

67) Create a timeline

​68) Make a diorama

69) Make a diagram

70) Write an informative speech

71) Make a fortune teller (a hand-made origami game - one of my students added information about her topic to each square on the game).

72) Make a graphic organizer

73) Make a postcard

74) Compile a book of interviews

75) Organize and host a game show

76) Produce a news segment

77) Put together a time capsule

78) Make a collage

79) Put together learning stations

80) Design a set and give visitors a "tour" (great for a book project, ecosystems project, etc.)

81)  Demonstration

82) Organize an event in the community

83) Create a professional quality infographic

84) Make a music video

85) Put together a handbook

86) Claymation

87) Learning activity

88) Child-friendly translation of a convoluted concept

89) Design and make a usable product - Ex: If the topic is on natural disasters, the student might design and build a life-saving device.

90) Write a jingle

91)  Make a puzzle

92) Design an art installation

93) Create a brand

94) Write a proposal

95) Host a school event

96) Organize a speaker series

97) A "_____ week/month" program/schedule (Ex: theme book club schedule)

98) Host a fundraiser event

99) Create a Pinterest profile and add boards and pins directly related to your topic.

​100) Write an editorial

101) Create a memory book

102) Create a memory box (great for experiences - students build a box with visuals that highlight themes of the experience, then they fill the box with relevant information and artifacts from the experience).

103) Make a virtual museum

104) Create a learning activity

105) Design and create a greeting card

106) Write and record a kids show or movie

107) Make a moving model or diorama

108) Make a commercial

109) Host a conversation on Clubhouse

110) Create a Facebook group

​111) Create an interactive "tour" using Google Maps. Check this blog post for more specific ways to use this option.

112) Scavenger hunt