Our standards

Editorial policy

News by Levels adapts verified current events into original English-learning material at three reading levels.

How stories are selected

We choose timely stories that can help learners understand the world and practise useful English. We aim for a varied mix of world news, science, health, technology, culture, business, and the environment.

Verification and sources

New stories are checked against recent, reliable sources before publication. We distinguish confirmed events from proposals, predictions, and future plans. Source organizations and direct links appear with newer articles so readers can examine the original reporting or announcement.

Original adaptation

Our versions are written for learners and are not sentence-by-sentence copies. Level 1 uses short sentences and common words. Level 2 adds detail and intermediate vocabulary. Level 3 uses more precise vocabulary and advanced sentence structures. The central facts remain consistent at every level.

Use of AI and editorial checks

AI tools are used to assist research, draft and adapt text, and support scheduled publishing. The publication workflow checks source attribution, dates, consistency between levels and saved article text. These checks do not mean that every story has been reviewed by a qualified teacher or subject specialist, and they can miss mistakes.

The site is a developer-run learning project. News adaptations are secondary summaries of the linked sources, not original reporting. Translations and word meanings are reading aids, not authoritative translations. Lessons in the practice collection receive story-specific exercise review across all three levels. Exercise review checks the learning task against its reading; it is not a claim of independent reporting, specialist fact-checking or classroom validation.

Corrections

We correct material factual errors when they are identified. If you believe a story contains an error or lacks necessary context, please contact us with the article link and supporting information.

Substantive archive corrections carry a dated note in the article. We keep the original publication date and explain when a later source supplies an update. An older story is not presented as newly reported simply because it has been reviewed. Where an original claim cannot be supported, the correction explains the change rather than silently treating the claim as verified.

What the reading practice checks

Guided questions must be answerable from the version you are reading. Each scored question has one supported answer, plausible alternatives, an explanation and a paragraph showing the evidence. Short writing or speaking activities are open responses, not automatically graded answers.

Each level has a specific learning goal, two to four questions, a contextual language note and an open response with a possible answer. Different levels should develop different reading tasks rather than repeat the same quiz with harder words.

Questions are tied to the reviewed article text. If that text changes, the previous questions are disabled until they are checked again. A story temporarily without matching reviewed questions offers an unscored retelling activity, clearly distinguished from the scored questions. This safeguard also applies to previously reviewed archive stories.