Articles of the Week

I found a great website that provides an article of the week for middle school students. The articles are presented in two formats, PDF and MS Word. When in the MS Word format, you are able to manipulate the documents to fit your needs and specialize it for your school/class. I have found the articles to be interesting and beneficial to kids teaching skills such as citing evidence, annotating, distinguishing between fact and opinion, among a myriad of others skills. In addition, there is an entire archive of articles to choose from as well as a new one every week.

Another option for giving one of these assignments is to copy and paste it from the MS Word or upload it into Google Docs so all students can access it.

Here is the website for your reference:

http://vms.vale.k12.or.us/articles-week