Appropriate Leveling
Knowledge Refinement
Principle in Action
Newsela supports nonfiction literacy learning. The platform offers content at five different reading levels and continuously assesses and responds to each student's comprehension capabilities, ensuring that students are neither under-challenged nor overwhelmed. Teachers can also set the difficulty of assignments based on the recommended level or choose a specific level to meet individual needs. By mapping content difficulty to individual performance thresholds, Newsela transforms reading from a static task to an adaptive learning journey that tailors to learners' growing literacy.
Newsela
Find readings at appropriate levels using filtering tools
Find readings at appropriate levels using filtering tools
Discuss in your team
Who is your target learner?
How much prior exposure do they have to the learning material?
How could you make the material harder? Easier?
Principle Definition
Account for the learner’s prior knowledge and skill level when considering how challenging to make your educational product. When the learning is too easy, the learner is not challenged and may get bored. When it is too difficult, the learner acquires very little and gets frustrated or tunes out.
Appropriate Leveling
Knowledge Refinement
Principle Definition
Account for the learner’s prior knowledge and skill level when considering how challenging to make your educational product. When the learning is too easy, the learner is not challenged and may get bored. When it is too difficult, the learner acquires very little and gets frustrated or tunes out.
Principle in Action
Newsela
Newsela supports nonfiction literacy learning. The platform offers content at five different reading levels and continuously assesses and responds to each student's comprehension capabilities, ensuring that students are neither under-challenged nor overwhelmed. Teachers can also set the difficulty of assignments based on the recommended level or choose a specific level to meet individual needs. By mapping content difficulty to individual performance thresholds, Newsela transforms reading from a static task to an adaptive learning journey that tailors to learners' growing literacy.
Find readings at appropriate levels using filtering tools
Discuss in your team
Who is your target learner?
How much prior exposure do they have to the learning material?
How could you make the material harder? Easier?
