myON News: Student Daily News
Engage students in daily nonfiction reading with high-interest news articles that expand their knowledge of the world while building their content-area, digital, and media literacy skills.
Expand Horizons. Teach 21st-Century Skills.
Safe and Reliable Digital News for K–8 Students
Help students grow the skills they need to be literate citizens in today’s digital world with myON News. With five age-appropriate current event news articles for students delivered every weekday, 52 weeks a year, plus a searchable archive of thousands of published articles, students can stay up-to-date on the latest news, discoveries, world events, sports, and more as they build critical literacy skills.
Discover what sets myON apart from other children’s news services
Current event news articles for students at a glance
Thousands of engaging choices
Articles are specifically written for children on topics that interest them: animals, sports, science, kids in the news, and more. In addition to five new articles each weekday, students can access a huge archive of thousands of previously published articles, all color-coded by topic
Lexile reading levels
Articles are available at three Lexile® reading levels, ensuring struggling readers can engage in the same high-interest content as their peers. Embedded scaffolds, including professionally recorded audio, a built-in dictionary, and large fonts, further support students as they read.
Multiple languages supported
Every article is available in five languages—English, Spanish, French, Arabic, and Mandarin—to support English Learner, dual-language, and immersion readers. Students can easily switch between languages as they read articles, helping them learn academic vocabulary in another language.
Multimedia and more
Fun multimedia features, such as colorful maps, short videos, links to related digital books, and slide shows with photos, illustrations, and diagrams deepen students’ engagement. Short quizzes encourage close reading, while allowing educators to monitor student comprehension and identify misconceptions.
Instruct, enrich, and engage
Thousands of news articles, along with the Teacher Guides, make it easy to incorporate more nonfiction reading into core subject areas and to increase active learning opportunities. Teachers can easily download discussion questions, activity sheets, answer keys for comprehension quizzes, and more!
Infuse literacy throughout the curriculum
Robust Resources for Every Educator
myON News, helps teachers infuse literacy throughout the entire curriculum and grow students’ nonfiction reading skills with timely, relevant daily news for students.
Teacher Guides provide discussion prompts, short activities, and other resources for integrating news articles into daily instruction in language arts, social studies, science, and even mathematics.
Teacher Guides provide discussion prompts, short activities, and other resources for integrating news articles into daily instruction in language arts, social studies, science, and even mathematics.
Accelerate literacy growth with Dynamic Reading Practice
myON News is part of Renaissance’s Dynamic Reading Practice for Literacy along with myON and Accelerated Reader. Together, they support the needs of all students, including Emergent Bilinguals and reluctant readers, by providing personalized reading experiences that adapt to each student’s level and interests. myON and Accelerated Reader improve engagement, build vocabulary, expand background knowledge, and strengthen reading comprehension.
Strengthen students’ digital and media literacy
Build 21st-century students with student daily news
Combat “fake news”
More than ever, students need to be media-savvy readers and critical thinkers. Help students learn the importance of unbiased reporting and reliable sources—as well as how to recognize fake news—with authentic, clearly sourced articles that model journalistic best practices.
Connect with real experts
As students read, evaluate, and discuss daily news articles, they learn how the news can affect their lives—and how they can affect the news! Articles even include Question and Answer sessions with scientists, authors, athletes, and more, using questions from real kids.
Expand students’ reading choices with enhanced digital books!
Give students even more great texts to choose from with myON, which provides unlimited, 24/7 access to thousands of high-quality fiction and nonfiction titles.
It is comforting to know that students are made aware of current events in a very developmentally appropriate way. They can be in tune with what’s going on, but we’re not scaring them.
Francisca Sanchez, Executive Director for Elementary Education, Mission CISD
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Want to learn more?
A Renaissance representative can provide you with a more detailed understanding of myON News and help you decide if it’s the right tool for you and your students.