Living in the “24-hour news cycle”, whether through traditional news sources or social media, we can easily keep up with important issues from around the world. Literature on using news in ESL/EFL classrooms suggests that news stories can be used to develop leaners’ reading, writing and speaking skills (Tafida & Dalhatu, 2014), However, resources for language learners can be limited. One resource that does provide news stories written with graded language is Xreading News. This is a collection of five current news stories, written at the CEFR B1 level and published weekly on Xreading. This session will introduce Xreading news, discuss how it is created each week, and suggest some ways it can be used in the classroom. Presenters will also show graded readers featuring world topics. Books written in an engaging and accessible way, which provide students with the language needed if they are to discuss real world issues.