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Monthly Tool Talk - TweenTribune

This blog post is written by NCCAT faculty member Elizabeth Joyce. Joyce came to NCCAT after serving four years as instructional technology specialist in Rockingham County Schools. She also attended NCCAT as a teacher. She started teaching high school English January 2008 for Rockingham County Schools, and became instructional technology specialist in August 2011.

TweenTribune is a free, not-for-profit online newspaper for students, aged 8–15. It is updated daily with stories from the Associated Press that are chosen based on relevancy to pre-adolescents.  Lexile levels can be changed in order to meet students’ comprehension levels.