Explore the News!

   For one of our assignments, we had to find 7-10 articles about Astronomy that we liked. I chose to use Newsela because I like their articles and it's easy to find good information on any topic that you want. I took all of my articles and created a glogster with them. Some of the pictures that I included where the cover pictures for the articles that I chose. I think that Astronomy is fascinating; space goes on forever and it's crazy to think that we don't necessarily know everything that's out there. I've always really liked astronomy, but I haven't learned too much about it until I got the chance to read these articles so I'm really glad this was the topic that we were asked to focus on. We used the articles to create timelines and word clouds together in groups, which I've talked about in another blog post that includes the links! Here is the link to my glogster and a picture below!

   It's absolutely crucial for teachers to stay up to date with what's going on currently in the world in case students ask any questions or try to make connections to the topic you're focusing on. When you have real-life example, it also makes the students more interested in what's going on. Kids are often easily bored when you talk about things that happened long ago, but when you share something exciting that happened recently, they're more likely to get excited. Newsela is a great place to find articles about all of the new things happening in the world whether you want to do your own research or show the students some interesting articles. I would love to use Newsela in my future classroom because the articles are short and sweet and they contain Lexile levels which is great when you're finding articles for students. You could even use Newsela articles during guided reading time and pick articles for the different Lexile level groups!