Tween Tribune
Tween Tribune ( https://www.tweentribune.com) is a free educational resource for teachers and students developed by the Smithsonian. This website offers free non-fiction articles on topics regarding history, science, current events, arts, and culture for grades K-12. Tween Tribune offers free lesson plans and activities for registered teachers and allows students to comment and interact with other verified users on the website. This is a great literacy website to incorporate non-fiction reading on various topics.
Tween Tribune’s articles are selected from reputable news sources and tailors them to different reading levels. Currently, the website organizes their articles by grades K-4, 5-6, 7-8, and 9-12. Each article has four different Lexile Levels to read them in. Each article has a Smithsonian made Youtube video further explaining the topic, a critical thinking question that verified users can respond to, and a free quiz to take. Interacting with the comments and quiz does require an account with Tween Tribune. These articles are also able to automatically be assigned to Google Classroom.
Tween Tribune’s articles are free to read however if teachers would like access to lesson plans, activities, and free quizzes then they can create a free teacher account. Afterwards, teachers can manually register their students. Without making an account, teachers are still able to link articles and see the few free lesson plans available.
Tween Tribune is a great literacy website that uses engaging photos and interesting headlines. All of the articles read like news articles. Students will be able to peruse the website and organize articles by topic. Since the website organizes the articles by grade level and Lexile Level, the content is diverse enough to fit a variety of readers and reading abilities. Readers will enjoy the graphics and videos that each article supports. Teachers will also appreciate the higher-level critical thinking question at the end of each reading.
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