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Reading:
- Search over 25,000 biographies
- Includes classroom activities and quiz sections
- Long list of links to information about books, authors, and other literature-based resources
- Thematic units and literature resources for specific books
- Organized by grade level groups
- Games, story maker, and printable activities
- Read stories based on books, movies, and t.v. shows, written by students
- Add your own stories and comments
- Uses rating system like that used in movies to describe the approproiateness of content
- Database of novels from Iowa school district
- Search for books by author, subject, keyword, Lexile, reading level, Accelerated Reader points and/or interest level
- Excellent collection of on-line research resources, including specific information for elementary levels
- Log-ins and registration are free for Idaho educators
- Access to a variety of databases, full-text journal and magazine articles
- Lexiles measure the difficulty of a piece of text and can be used to match text of an appropriate level to students
- Search by title, author, keyword, or Lexile score
- Word lists and activities for some books (in PowerV)
- Additional resources for parents
- Detailed information about books and authors
- Includes links to passages that demostrate themes and describe characters
- Some novels have full text on-line
- Free books "digitally re-published"
- Because of copyright issues, the books available are mostly pre-1923
- Lessons, standards, web resources, and student materials to support language arts and reading instruction
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