Spanish NewsBites: Teachable, Catchy Current Events

I love this website! Produced by a couple of teachers in Madrid, Spanish NewsBites is a blog of current events and topics designed for self-study and perfectly applicable to classroom use.

It can be hard to find authentic, current news stories that are a) interesting and b) graded, and the stories here are both. Plus they are really well-selected, truly covering "hot topics" in the Spanish-speaking world (Vargas Llosa's Nobel prize, a new film about the Spanish Civil War, Ferrán Adriá's food experimentation, etc.).

The articles/blog posts are organized by both level (Inicial-Superior) and topic on a bar to the right, and there are accompanying exercises and PDFs for printing with each. If students use the website for self-study, they can listen to an audio recording of the text while reading it, which I love.

A great resource for increasing motivation and enjoyment with real current events, culture, and technology. Nicely graded reading activities for increasing reading skills as well. Quite a find!