Newsela Updates - November 2025

🆕 Enhancement releases

We've been busy! Here's a sneak peek at our November 2025 new features and improvements:

Luna-Powered Graphic Organizers Now Digitally Assignable

Teachers can now digitally assign our graphic organizers for students to complete in-platform - with the ability to assign or print multiple at once!

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Filter Standards by Grade Level

Teachers can now filter standards by grade level when searching for content.

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Spanish Graphic Organizers Library

We are launching the Newsela Spanish Graphic Organizer Library. This resource is a collection of essential and frequently used general graphic organizers translated into Spanish, provided as ready-to-use PDFs. Teachers can find the Spanish Graphic Organizers by searching for Graphic Organizers in the search bar or by accessing the specific bundle linked here.

Admin Usage Report - Engagement Highlights

We added Engagement Highlights section to the Admin Usage Report

  • Displays top 3 performing schools (for district admins) or teachers (for school admins) by:

    • Articles viewed

    • Assignments created

    • Quizzes submitted

  • Highlights dynamically update based on any page-level filters (school, grade level, timeframe).

  • Listed schools/ teachers are clickable, and link directly to their detailed drill down view.

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đź“šContent Updates

Newsela content is updated on a regular basis. During this time period the following content updates were introduced:

Mini Inquiries Collection (Newsela Social Studies)

Inquiries help build critical thinking skills, increase engagement, and develop students’ abilities to articulate an argument. A collection of mini inquiries makes it easier to incorporate inquiry-based learning into daily instruction as there is a lower time commitment.

  • There are 38 new text sets available supporting mini inquiries for a variety of topics.

  • Each text set provides teachers with suggested grade levels (lower elementary, upper elementary, middle school, and high school).

  • Each text set comes with a dedicated Lesson Spark for teachers focused on guiding an inquiry-based lesson.

  • On average, these lessons take between 1-4 class periods to complete.

Access this collection by navigating to “Inquiry Design Model Resources” in the left-hand menu of the Social Studies browse page

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