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Engage students in daily nonfiction reading with high-interest news articles that expand their knowledge of the world while building their content-area, digital, and media literacy skills.
Help students grow the skills they need to be literate citizens in today’s digital world with myON News. With five age-appropriate news articles delivered every weekday, 52 weeks a year, plus a searchable archive of thousands of published articles, students can stay up-to-date on the latest news, discoveries, world events, sports, and more as they build critical literacy skills.
Each article comes in five languages (English, Spanish, French, Arabic, and Mandarin) and at three reading levels, with embedded scaffolds to support struggling readers.
Professionally recorded audio, maps, slideshows, a built-in dictionary, and more make each article come alive, deepening student engagement.
100% nonfiction text, a wide range of cross-curricular topics, and downloadable Teacher Guides help strengthen literacy in the content areas.
Authentic reporting by professional journalists and a careful review by a child psychologist help ensure every article is unbiased and appropriate for children.
myON News, helps teachers infuse literacy throughout the entire curriculum and grow students’ nonfiction reading skills with timely, relevant informational texts.
Teacher Guides provide discussion prompts, short activities, and other resources for integrating news articles into daily instruction in language arts, social studies, science, and even mathematics.
Real-time reports reveal trends in student reading, including the number of articles read, minutes spent reading, reading frequency, and most-popular articles at the class, grade, and school level.
More than ever, students need to be media-savvy readers and critical thinkers. Help students learn the importance of unbiased reporting and reliable sources—as well as how to recognize fake news—with authentic, clearly sourced articles that model journalistic best practices.
As students read, evaluate, and discuss daily news articles, they learn how the news can affect their lives—and how they can affect the news! Articles even include Question and Answer sessions with scientists, authors, athletes, and more, using questions from real kids.
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Articles are specifically written for children on topics that interest them: animals, sports, science, kids in the news, and more. In addition to five new articles each weekday, students can access a huge archive of thousands of previously published articles, all color-coded by topic
Articles are available at three Lexile® reading levels, ensuring struggling readers can engage in the same high-interest content as their peers. Embedded scaffolds, including professionally recorded audio, a built-in dictionary, and large fonts, further support students as they read.
Every article is available in five languages—English, Spanish, French, Arabic, and Mandarin—to support English Learner, dual-language, and immersion readers. Students can easily switch between languages as they read articles, helping them learn academic vocabulary in another language.
Fun multimedia features, such as colorful maps, short videos, links to related digital books, and slide shows with photos, illustrations, and diagrams deepen students’ engagement. Short quizzes encourage close reading, while allowing educators to monitor student comprehension and identify misconceptions.
Thousands of news articles, along with the Teacher Guides, make it easy to incorporate more nonfiction reading into core subject areas and to increase active learning opportunities. Teachers can easily download discussion questions, activity sheets, answer keys for comprehension quizzes, and more!
Give students even more great texts to choose from with myON, which provides unlimited, 24/7 access to thousands of high-quality fiction and nonfiction titles.
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