Great news source!

I truly appreciate this application's practicality and constructive use in the classroom. This is an excellent tool for teachers to use to introduce reading analysis and comprehension to any student who struggles in areas of decoding or understanding when reading texts. News-2-You helps me as a teacher better serve their needs in the classroom by giving them a chance to visually dissect images that tell the same narrative story with the same content as a written article would. In this way, my students (or any student) have the chance to interact with both the content they are learning in my social studies classroom but also engage and practice reading news articles and current events to understand their larger purpose and meaning. However, this application may not be practical or feasible for every teacher in every classroom because of its limited age scope and proficiency levels. Likewise, the expense may not be something that every teacher or every student can spare.

My students love reading News-2-You in the classroom. It is a newspaper that they can better understand and full of topics which keep my students engaged. The biggest issue was the amount of paper used. Also, I only had a small computer in my room for the nonreaders to crowd around. With this app, News-2-You improved the voices that read the newspaper, added a feature where it will read a single sentence if you tap it instead of the whole page and the end of paper games are interactive! Two aspects of the app I don't like are that it only gives you the regular version of the paper and that you can't split up the sections of the newspaper (there are certain parts I take out depending on my group). I really feel that this app improved the overall learning in my classroom and helped many of my students become more independent when working in a group setting since they didn’t have to ask for help as much.