Newsela Writing Access
Starting July 2025, Newsela Writing is offered for purchase as an Add-on to a premium subscription. If your school or district has purchased Newsela Premium licenses and is interested in purchasing Newsela Writing, please reach out to your dedicated Newsela customer success manager or send our support team a message here, for more information.
Teachers and students will need Newsela accounts in order to use Newsela Writing.
For teachers with a premium subscription who need to add their students to Newsela, we recommend following the instructions outlined here.
Teachers with a Newsela Lite account who start a free trial of Newsela Premium will have access to Newsela Writing's experience as part of their free trial as long as it lasts.
Teachers with a legacy Newsela Essentials license do not have access to Newsela Writing because this licensing is not a premium subject subscription.
Navigate to Newsela Writing
You can navigate to Newsela Writing in two ways:
Use the “product switcher” in the upper left-hand corner of the Newsela masthead.
Go directly to Newsela Writing here
Get students started on Newsela Writing
To get your students into Newsela Writing for the first time:
Log in with your Newsela account here (If you do not have a Newsela account yet, click "Sign Up" and follow the instructions here to create a new teacher account)
Create an assignment here
Share the assignment link with your students
When they click on the link they will be asked to log in to Newsela. If they are already logged in they will go straight to the assignment
Once students are logged in they can immediately start writing and receiving feedback
You can navigate through your student’s work to monitor their progress
Add students to classes
Newsela Writing uses Newsela’s student rosters. To roster students in Newsela Writing, you need to roster them in Newsela first. For more help, view the instructions for how to roster students in other Newsela products.
District Admin: Access Newsela Writing data
Newsela Writing report is available to download as a .csv file from your Admin Console within your Newsela account:
