Quick Facts Guide for the Washington ESD’s (ADP + EWOL)
WORLD BOOK ADVANCED (Grades 7-12)
WITH “ONE INTEGRATED SEARCH” FIND:
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Integrated search for both secondary and primary sources
Access to hundreds of thousands of primary source documents
Thousands of complete e-books – over 3200 works on Classical Literature
Personal “Student Accounts” to save material for projects
A Timeline Builder with “Create Your Own Timelines”
A Citation Builder (So easy to use for your students)
Resource Guides to many topics and locations (Over 1,800)
Daily access to Reuters news
Direct links to World and State Newspapers
Lesson plans using primary source documents found in, “Teaching With Documents”
100s of editor-selected web sites
Audio text To Speech Translation capabilities for all articles, documents, e-books
Ability to translate all articles into 30 languages
WORLD BOOK DISCOVER (Grades 3-12)
FOR DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION
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Created for secondary students reading below their peers (Great for elementary students also)
Easy to read articles of high interest to middle and high school students
Comprehension questions to help older students grasp concepts
Timeline and Citation Makers Individual, Student Accounts, Life skills articles
Correlations to Washington State standards
Text-To-Speech audio feature -- Highlights the sentence being read in yellow and the word being read in blue.
Translation tool generates World Book content into 14 languages
“World Book Explains”, over a thousand instructional videos
Life Skills section
WORLD BOOK STUDENT (Grades 4-9)
 All articles from the NEW World Book Encyclopedia plus thousands more
 Articles correlated to Washington State Standards
 Research tools including Timelines, Individual research accounts , and
a “How To Do Research” feature
 Daily News from PBS
 Double Click Dictionary
 Audio Text To Speech capabilities
 Ability to translate all articles into 14 languages
 Resource Guides on topics and locations
 Biography Center – Can select by time period, gender, field of interest, and nationality
WORLD BOOK KID’S (Grades 2-4)
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All Articles written at a 3rd grade reading level
World of Animals (Explore & Compare)
Compare Places (Explore & Compare)
Important People (Easy tom find Biographies)
Science Projects
Maps, Games & Activities
All articles have citations
Read Aloud capabilities all articles
Translate all articles into 30 languages
Double-Click Dictionary
WORLD BOOK “EARLY WORLD OF LEARNING” (Grades PreK -2)
Trek's Travels offers narrated stories, interactive games, and original videos that teach critical early childhood themes, including
numbers, shapes, colors, opposites, and more. Educators Guide. (Professional readers)
Welcome to Reading provides leveled readers to develop and strengthen phonics, vocabulary, phonemic awareness, and
comprehension skills. The Lexile Framework® for Reading ensures that early readers use text at their level.
Know It offers a richly visual first encyclopedia that will captivate early learners with non-fiction topics of interest and
importance to them.
ESTUDIANTIL HALLAZGOS (Grades 3-12)
(Spanish Encyclopedia for the young or those learning Spanish)
 Explore and Compare Animals – Links to Kid’s --- Read-Aloud Capabilities
 Links to Newspapers from Spanish speaking countries
 Visual multi lingual dictionary --- Many more features