World Book Resources For Our Patrons

The main hub on World Book online that features the below sections.

• Premier reference website developed especially for elementary-aged users, featuring image-driven navigation and an intuitive user experience. 
• Thousands of easy-to-read articles packed with stunning illustrations, videos, interactive maps, and a wealth of engaging games and activities. 
• World of Animals: Fun and easy-to-use tool to help kids research their favorite animals. 
• Use the Compare Places feature to explore and compare countries, states, and provinces. 
• Hands-on science projects and experiments cater to many different levels and interests. 
• Correlations to Common Core, state, and provincial standards. 
• Age-appropriate web quests provide exploratory print-and-go activities.

• Tens of thousands of encyclopedia articles featuring high-interest, readable content. 
• Rich multimedia, including nearly 700 videos and original animations and 17,000+ photos and illustrations. 
• My Research offers individualized accounts, allowing users to compile content that can be accessed from home or school. 
• World Book Biography Center, with more than 10,000 biographies of both historical and contemporary figures. 
• Google Drive and Google Classroom integration. 
• Trivia quizzes make learning fun. 
• Lexile® measures on Student’s most popular articles deliver a “targeted” reading experience. 
• Extensive built-in dictionary and an easy-to navigate atlas. 
• Translation tool with 100+ languages! 
• Correlations to Common Core, state, and provincial standards. 
• Age-appropriate web quests provide exploratory print-and-go activities.

• Integrated search of articles, media, primary sources, eBooks, dictionary, back in time articles, and special reports. 
• Advanced research tools include dictionary, atlas, and more. 
• Teaching with Primary Source Documents include advanced lesson plans. 
• Pathfinders of pre-generated content sets aid in research and subject matter understanding. 
• My Research offers individualized accounts, allowing users to compile content that can be accessed from home or school. 
• Thousands of fiction and nonfiction online books. 
• World Newspapers of more than 400 periodicals from around the globe. 
• Citation Builder creates flawless citations in MLA, APA, and Harvard formats. 
• Correlations to Common Core, state, and provincial standards. 
• Age-appropriate web quests provide exploratory print-and-go activities.

• World Book Explains videos feature experts answering questions on high-interest topics. 
• How to Do Research feature contains invaluable resources for both students and educators. 
• Visual Dictionary—in English, Spanish and French—displays a label next to an image to make content more accessible to readers of all levels. 
• Citation Builder creates flawless citations in MLA, APA, and Harvard formats. 
• Translate articles into 100+ languages or have them read aloud in English. 
• Correlations to Common Core, state, and provincial standards. 
• Rich, interactive Life Skills 101 offers practical tips on such topics as applying for jobs, budgeting, arranging housing, health care issues, social skills, and more.

• Highly visual articles written in Spanish at an easier reading level. 
• Mundo de Animales (World of Animals) feature provides younger readers with a fun and easy-to-use tool for learning about their favorite animals. 
• Integrated with World Book Kids so users can toggle back and forth between Spanish and English.
• Appealing Spanish visual dictionary helps readers identify word meanings and build vocabulary. 
• Hands-on learning activities. 
• Colorful photos, illustrations, and videos. 
• Spanish language news from around the world.

• A highly engaging and visual site designed for easy integration into classroom instruction and library programming. 
• A rich collection of educational, interactive games and topical videos is ideal for use with interactive white boards. 
• Guided reading program with stories spread across Lexile levels provide building blocks for early learners. 
• Easily adaptable with new features and content added regularly based on user feedback. 
• Proprietary stories utilizing small bursts of content will support micro-learning. 
• Includes a robust collection of educator resources, including lesson plans, mini-lessons, and printables as well as correlations to Common Core, state, and provincial standards.

• Access to over 3,000 titles including World Book exclusive content. 
• 24/7 unlimited, simultaneous access and unlimited renewals. 
• Automatically updated and continually growing collection at no additional charge.

• Optimized for iPads and the most popular Android devices. 
• 650+ unique Timelines spanning the arts, science and technology, society and culture, sports, world history and geography, and more. 
• Create, customize, collaborate, and share your Timelines. 
• More than 14,000 events built directly into the product. 
• Build Timelines for any purpose, from school research projects to family histories and just for fun. 
• Timelines includes synopsized historical notes and a wealth of engaging images and videos to craft stunning presentations. 
• Great for visual learners. 
• Perfect for all ages.