The South Dakota State Library offers many great resources online. Today, I explored the World Book as a reference resource.
World Book Kids (K-5)- kid friendly with good amount of pictures and ability to highlight words to be read aloud.
World Book Student Edition (5-9) - same features as Kids version but with more information available, includes pictures and videos as well as how to cite the article. It has the option to search with student and kid version combined which is nice because the kids version may help identify basic facts more quickly.
Advanced (9-12) allows the user to locate many more resources. When searching for the country of Belgium, some helpful features included map, quick facts table, flag, and other listed sections that would assist student in research of the country for class project.
Discover (grades 4 - adult) has option to translate into a different language which would be helpful for students who English is their second language. It includes read aloud option, videos, dictionary click option, timelines, assistance to build citations and more!
All of the above have good 2 page handouts that will assist the teacher and student to know what is available from these internet resources.
Hi, LitGarden! Welcome to the Electronic Resources Challenge and thanks for your post. You gave a concise summary of each. Which module or features do you think you would use with your students?
ReplyDeleteI believe that I might use a combination of the modules and features as I expect a range of reading ability and interests with my students. The school I will be teaching at as a Cluster and ELL site school.
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