News-O-Matic EDU

4.3
61 reviews
5K+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

This app is dedicated to our EDU Members.
** World Young Reader Prize 2015 (Editorial) - World Association of Newspapers (WAN-IFRA) **
** Teachers' Choice Award 2015 **
** The first bilingual news app for kids! **
** An excellent way to incorporate daily current events into your classroom – Common Sense Media **
** Best App for Teaching & Learning by AASL **
** Common Core State Standards Aligned **

Whether your students enjoy reading about sports, science, world news, or wacky events, News-O-Matic delivers what’s making the news! Our mission is to make learning more engaging, active, and personal.

This nonfiction reading comprehension app publishes five news stories each weekday! The stories range in length and difficulty to create opportunities for differentiated instruction. Readers learn what happened on this date in history through an educational game and write or draw to Editor-in-Chief Russ in the News Room. Each edition gives you access to a Teacher’s Guide.

Each daily edition features:
* Five dynamic news articles
* Rich and detailed images, videos, and illustrations
* Informative maps relating the user to the location of every story
* News Room for drawing or asking questions about the news
* An interactive history-based timeline
* Puzzles, games, fun facts, and many other elements for discovery
* Audio support for challenging vocabulary and full stories read aloud
* Multiple Lexile reading levels
* Custom assessment questions
* Multilingual articles (English, Spanish & French)
* Multilingual Read to Me (English, Spanish & French)
* Save or print articles
* Highlight text
* Citations
* Access to 10 past editions

News-O-Matic is 100% ad-free.

Written by experienced journalists and educators, News-O-Matic is used in schools around the world! All articles are reviewed by a child psychologist before publication to ensure emotionally safe content.

The News-O-Matic Teacher’s Guide includes questions related to the text and suggested discussion prompts. It provides ideas and activities to serve as a springboard to enrich learning.

Privacy Policy and Terms of Use can be found at www.press4kids.com/privacy.html
The publisher of this daily news application is Press4Kids, Inc.
To learn more about us, please visit us at www.press4Kids.com
Updated on
17 May 2021

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
Location and Personal info
Data isn’t encrypted
Committed to follow the Play Families policy

Ratings and reviews

4.1
40 reviews
A Google user
10 September 2019
Hello why I can't use this app , I mean I'm not a student in USA but please can you help me to use this app . I need to improve my skills in English and I think this app is useful 😥❤
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Jackson Overland
22 January 2022
How do I sign up? I can only log in, but how can I log in if I can't make an account?
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Press4Kids
24 January 2022
Hello, Thank you for reaching out. To create a News-O-Matic EDU account, please fill this quote request and a member of our team will be back to you: https://www.newsomatic.org/request-a-quote You can also sign-up for a 3 weeks free trial here: https://teachers.newsomatic.net/pilot Best, The News-O-Matic team
A Google user
16 May 2019
it is so fun I do it at school
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Phone number
+16463296593
About the developer
Press4kids Inc.
info@newsomatic.org
167 Madison Ave Rm 603 New York, NY 10016 United States
+1 917-208-2753