STEP 1: Sign up & join a class with LCCTC.
Students new to NewsELA should sign up (free). Then, use the following class codes to earn bonus in your English class at the beginning of the next school year with the summer reading challenge at LCCTC (all participating should join these classes). All students who wish to participate should join one of these classes:
Students new to NewsELA should sign up (free). Then, use the following class codes to earn bonus in your English class at the beginning of the next school year with the summer reading challenge at LCCTC (all participating should join these classes). All students who wish to participate should join one of these classes:
- Summer Reading Class of 2017 ~ 48F5DP
- Summer Reading Class of 2018 ~ 26Z2XZ
- Summer Reading Class of 2019 ~ ZTK9JB
STEP 2: Join NewsELA's Summer Reading Club, "Camp NewsELA"
Click HERE to see how easy it is! http://support.newsela.com/hc/en-us/articles/208874926-Camp-Newsela
Join one of the clubs (and read as much as you'd like). The clubs offered:
- Kids Heroes Club: HEROES: Articles about kids making big impacts in their communities
- Animals Club: ANIMAL: All about animals
- Politics Club: EL2016: Stay informed about important points in our government
- Space Club: 2SPACE: Articles that are "out of this world!"
- Strong-of-Stomach Club: STRONG: Articles that will make your stomach turn -- so interesting, you won't want to turn away!
- Technology Club: TECHNO: Stories about gadgets, gizmos, and all sorts of techie stuff!
- Spanish Club: SPCLUB: Most popular articles -- all written in the language!
STEP 3: READ!
Each week, students will read all assigned articles (2 per week) and take the associated quizzes. You CAN read more than the assigned articles.
LCCTC: Will you get bonus? Yes -- from your LCCTC teachers! :-) What if you don't score at least a 2/4 on your quiz? Here are suggestions:
- Make sure you are able to completely focus on your reading.
- Highlight and talk to the text as you read.
- Consider that your Lexile is a little high and drop your level.
- Read a different article and try again!
According to NewsELA, here's how Camp Newsela will run:
- Beginning on Monday, June 13th, every Monday and Wednesday, educators at Newsela will assign one article that falls under the theme of the Reading Club you selected..
- Students read each assigned article and take the quiz.
- When the Camp Newsela ends on Friday, August 19, we'll calculate how many students have read and completed at least 80% of the assignments and achieved a score of at least 2 of 4 on the quizzes.
- The winning Reading Clubs will be offered the chance to vote to contribute towards a DonorsChoose project. When you read, you get to help others!
