Text Sets and Collections

Text Sets and Collections are two ways that you’ll see articles organized on Newsela. Certain text sets and collections are affiliated with Newsela subscription types, such as Newsela Social Studies, and cannot be viewed or shared with other subscription types.

Text Sets: Groups of articles that share a common theme. You can create your own Text Sets or explore Text Sets created by other teachers and by Newsela editors.

Collections: Curriculum resources that contain content and instructional materials aligned to the scope and sequence for a subject, that have been purchased for your school or district.

In the site menu

  1. Click Your Content.

  2. Select At Your School in the drop down menu and find Text Sets in Your School, the group of text sets that teachers you work with have created.

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In Search

When you search on Newsela, Text Sets appear as one of the search tabs.

  1. Enter a search term in the Search bar.

  2. Click Content Types drop down, check the Text Sets box, and then click the Apply button to find groups of articles already curated by educators on that topic.

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From the Newsela Menu

  1. Select Your Content at the top of the page.

  2. From the drop-down menu, you can select Created By You or At Your School. Click the blue Create New Text Set button, in the top right-hand corner of the page.

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From Another Text Set

Teachers can also make a copy of an existing Text Sets to edit or add description or content.

  1. Select the text set you'd like to use.

  2. Click the Copy Content icon (two sheets of paper in a circle) at the top of a Text Set created by Newsela or another teacher. 

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From an Article

  1. Scroll down the article's page to locate the article actions icon bar, and click the "+Add to Text Set" icon

  2. Select "Create new Text Set."

  3. The article will load in a new screen within the Text Set

  4. Click the Edit button (pencil icon) at the top of the screen

  5. Update the title, description, and add articles to complete the Text Set.

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Teachers can edit Text Sets that they have created or copied. If you want an edited version of a Text Set made by someone else, start by clicking the copy icon at the top of a Text Set.  

  1. Go to the Text Set you want to work with, by clicking Your Content and selecting Created By You

  2. Click the Text Set you’d like to edit.

  3. Click the Edit button at the top of the page (pencil icon).

  4. Update the title or description, or add, remove, or reorder articles.

  5. Click Save.

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Teachers can also add articles to any already created Text Sets directly from an article by clicking the Add button (plus sign on pages icon). Simply scroll down to locate the article's actions icon bar, click the Add button, and proceed to select the destination text set of your preference.

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