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Everything you need to know about CommonLit in less than 10 minutes

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How do I turn on ELL & Extra Support Features for my student?

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We currently only offer ELL & Extra Support Features for Article-A-Day assignments. Students with these features enabled will have access to: Directions and pu

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Destress with differentiated reading levels | Newsela

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You can find articles by searching for keywords, topics, or subjects.

To Search

1. Click Search on the Search and Navigation bar.

2. Enter a keyword or subject.

3. Click 'Search'. You will be directed to the results page that includes content from all of your Newsela subscriptions.

4. If your results are limited, try additional search terms.

5. Articles, Text Sets, Videos, and (with Newsela Social Studies and Science subscriptions) Standards will also appear

To Narrow Your Results

1. After you search for a topic, you can narrow a result with a filter.

2. Select your filters from the drop downs above your search results, including selecting articles by Collection, suggested grade band, text level, and language.

3. Click "Apply" once you have selected a filter or set of filters.

Newsela's Search Filter Options Are Listed Below

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You can find articles by searching for keywords, topics, or subjects. Click Search on the Search and Navigation bar. Enter a keyword or subject. Click 'Search'. You will be directed to the results page that includes content from all of your Newsela subscriptions.

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With the Annotations feature, teachers and students can highlight and mark up articles. Educators with a paid subscription can use this ability to customize assignments with annotation conversations initiated by either students or teachers. Teachers and students with a free subscription can highlight and annotate in Newsela for personal use.

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Teach with Newsela: Annotations
How teachers and students make annotations:

1. Highlight text. An annotations box will appear.

2. In the annotations box, select a color and enter your annotation.

3. Teachers, click Share to share the annotation with your class.

4. Click the annotation again to modify, unshare, or delete it. Clicking delete in the annotations box deletes both the highlighting and any annotation text.

5. Click the leveler at the top of the page to change lexile levels, and add annotations for a different level.

Tips and Tricks

Be sure to change the level and annotate each level your students will read.

Be sure the Read Aloud feature is off. Even when paused annotations are disabled.

Use a laptop, desktop, or netbook to make teacher annotations.

For students, use the app when accessing Newsela from a mobile device or a laptop, desktop, or netbook.

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With the Annotations feature, teachers and students can highlight and mark up articles. Educators with a paid subscription can use this ability to customize assignments with annotation conversations initiated by either students or teachers. Teachers and students with a free subscription can highligh…

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With our newly designed Annotations feature, teachers and students can highlight and annotate within articles. Annotations are created and stored in the Annotations section of the Activities panel.

Teachers can leave questions or other guidance for students in annotations, and students can see and respond to their teacher's annotations. All teacher-student conversations are stored in the Annotations section of the Activities panel.
*This updated feature is currently in pilot testing with a limited set of users.

1. Highlight text. An Annotate popup button will appear.

2. Select the text highlight color and enter annotation text (text is optional).

Select the Save button to save your annotation.

Creating annotations using only your keyboard

Our annotation feature works best in Chrome, Safari, and Edge browsers for keyboard-only annotation creation. We highly recommend using one of these browsers when using the annotation feature.

Chrome and Edge browsers both support caret browsing. This allows users to navigate and select text using only the keyboard.

1. To enable caret browsing in Chrome and Edge, press the F7 key. You will be asked whether or not you want to turn caret browsing on. Note: On Chromebook, the keyboard shortcut is Ctrl + Search + 7, or Ctrl + Launcher + 7.

2. Once caret browsing is enabled, you can select text using the Shift + arrow keys.

3. When you've selected the text, press the a key.

4. Select the text highlight color radio button using the tab and arrow keys.

5. Enter annotation text if you choose (text is optional).

6. Select the Save button to save your annotation.

Safari users:

In order to select text with keyboard-only, Safari requires the use of Apple's Mouse Keys. See the Enable Mouse Keys section of this article for more information.

1. Select text using Apple Mouse Keys.

2. When you've selected the text, press the a key.

3. Select the text highlight color radio button using the tab and arrow keys.

4. Enter annotation text if you choose (text is optional).

5. Select the Save button to save your annotation.

Creating annotations using a screen reader

Our annotation feature works best in the following browser and screen reader combinations:

The NVDA screen reader is not able to select text while in Browse mode, this is an issue present in all web pages that require text selection for annotation. We will continue to monitor for changes as updates are released to NVDA.

Safari with VoiceOver - MacOS (desktop)

1. Use standard controls and the Quick Nav to select text on Mac. For more information, see the Apple VoiceOver guide for working with text.

2. Once you have selected text, press the a key.

3. Select the text highlight color radio button and enter annotation text if you choose (text is optional).

4. Select the Save button to save your annotation.

Safari with VoiceOver - iOS (mobile and iPad)

1. Use standard controls and gestures to select text. See About the VoiceOver rotor and a video on Text Selection with Apple's VoiceOver.

2. Once you've selected text, there are several ways to create an annotation, use the method that works best for you:

1. Use Buttons in Rotor

1. Add Buttons to the Rotor options (one-time setup)

2. After text is selected, select Buttons from Rotor

3. Swipe up; the Annotate button is always the first button to swipe up to after highlighting text. Press the Annotate button.

2. Use the Item Chooser

1. After text is selected, open the Item Chooser via triple tap with two fingers

2. Type Annotate to filter items or swipe through all items until you reach Annotate

3. Select to be brought to the Annotate button in the page. Press the Annotate button.

3. Use Voice Control

1. Turn Voice Control on, see this video tutorial for reference.

2. Once you have highlighted text, the Annotate button automatically appears on the page

3. Say, "Tap Annotate" to select the Annotate button.

3. Select the text highlight color radio button and enter annotation text if you choose (text is optional).

4. Select the Save button to save your annotation.

Chrome and Edge with JAWS

1. Select text in Browse mode using Ctrl + Shift + left and right arrows.

2. To use the a key to create an annotation, update your Quick Key assignment in the Navigation Quick Key Manager. The a key will need to be unassigned from any current Quick Keys.

3. To use the Annotate button generated after text has been selected, press Shift + Tab until you reach the Annotate button. This is usually the first item in the backwards tab order. If there are Power Words in the article, you may need to navigate through them to reach the Annotate button.

4. Note: We are currently experiencing a bug with JAWS in this step. Your focus will either be moved to the annotation creation panel, or you will need to press the down arrow to hear the link to the "annotation start" text. Select this link and you will be moved to the annotation creation panel.

5. Select the text highlight color radio button and enter annotation text if you choose (text is optional).

6. Select the Save button to save your annotation.

Chrome with ChromeVox on Chromebook

1. Select text using the controls identified in Chromebook Help: Use the built-in screen reader. The Move through a page with keyboard shortcuts and Select and click sections are most helpful.

2. Once you have selected text, press the a key.

3. Select the text highlight color radio button and enter annotation text if you choose (text is optional).

4. Select the Save button to save your annotation.

How to edit, delete and share annotations

1. Select the caret button next to your name. This button is labeled " annotation text" for screen readers. Selecting this button will expand the annotation text and options.

2. Select Edit to modify the annotation color or text. Press Save or Cancel after modifications.

Teachers can select the leveler at the top of the page to change lexile levels, and add annotations for a different level.

How to view and reply to annotations

To view an annotation in the Annotation section, either:

Open the Annotations section of the Activities panel to view all annotations listed.

To view an annotation in the article from the Annotation section:

To reply to an annotation:

Select the caret button next to the name of the person who made the annotation. This button is labeled " annotation text" for screen readers. Selecting this button will expand the annotation text and options.

1. Type your reply in the Reply text field.

2. Select the Reply button to send your reply, or the Cancel button to delete and re-enter your reply text. Be sure to select the Reply button after you've re-entered your text.

Once you've replied, you will have two button options to Delete or Edit your reply. Be sure to select the Save button after you've edited your reply, or the Cancel button to discard your changes.

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With our newly designed Annotations feature, teachers and students can highlight and annotate within articles. Annotations are created and stored in the Annotations section of the Activities panel. Teachers can leave questions or other guidance for students in annotations, and students can see and respond to their teacher's annotations.

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