Newsela Student

Since the first year I came to America, I’ve been starting using Newsela for my educational learning. I also became a big lover of Newsela. First, I would have to say a big thank you to the founder of our Newsela. Your app helped me overcome a hard time of learning English, it also helped me did a big improvement on my reading level. Secondly, Newsela brings me a lot of fun to immerse in the diversity of reading, and brings me many interesting knowledge that I never seen before. It also gives me lots of ideas to write the essays in school that the teachers wants us to write. I am very appreciated to have this great opportunity to learn many knowledges. Thank you, thank you, and thank you. I would continue to use our Newsela again, again and again.

This is a GREAT app. We learn from things that I, a kid doesn’t know. Furthermore, we might learn from the corona and every else to be exact! There is lots and plz write more of these amazing articles. And stay safe!!! Also, this is awesome because there is so many cool articles and some were so funny that my tears came out like crazy! Whoever made this app was amazing. The updates are more better. We get more articles and everything the teacher gave us were so much better. By the way, there is no fiction and that is great. I was feeling like I was going to burst out with joy when I discovered that no fiction was hear and I used this app almost all the time! Plz add in more updates and whoever made this app, this app was totally awesome and interesting and amazing and beautiful and funny!

For all the years I have been using this App, something stays the same whether I was in Middle School or High School; the app works for the teacher. Albeit, it is lovely to read an academic perspective about the world in general -the writing portion is the easiest (ironically)- I am troubled with the quizzes. Recently, many teachers are using this app to simplify their grading, and somehow when you get 3/4 you still get a C as a grade, which does not make sense considering you only got one question wrong. I hear all the time fellow classmates complaining about Newsela because of this system, it indirectly ruins a student’a grade. In my opinion, there should be either more questions or rounded it up to level the ground for students, since in a normal exam even getting an amount of questions wrong can get you a B, yet somehow Newsela works by passing or failing. No room for diversity in grades. Adding more questions would be a good update to move past from this fail-pass system. Otherwise, the app works greatly and will have to, most likely, continue using it because of my teachers.