myON News is a digital platform that provides students with access to age-appropriate news articles, helping them stay informed and develop critical thinking skills.
Vendor
Renaissance Learning
Company Website
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.
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.
Features
- **Accessible: **Each article comes in five languages (English, Spanish, French, Arabic, and Mandarin) and at three reading levels, with embedded scaffolds to support struggling readers.
- **Interactive: **Professionally recorded audio, maps, slideshows, a built-in dictionary, and more make each article come alive, deepening student engagement.
- **Enriching: **100% nonfiction text, a wide range of cross-curricular topics, and downloadable Teacher Guides help strengthen literacy in the content areas.
- **Safe: **Authentic reporting by professional journalists and a careful review by a child psychologist help ensure every article is unbiased and appropriate for children.