Kids Search - EBSCO has created a search interface designed specifically for elementary/middle school students according to their needs and search abilities. The Kids Search interface combines a state-of-the-art search engine (powered by EBSCOhost®) with a child-friendly, graphically-rich design that is both powerful and fun to use. The following databases are included in the Kids Search family:
Searchasaurus - Three popular elementary and middle school databases (Primary Search®, Middle Search® Plus and Book Collection: Nonfiction™) can be accessed via Searchasaurus®, EBSCO Publishing's user search experience for users in elementary or middle schools. Searchasaurus is an exciting and easy way for young researchers to experience online searching. It is an animated interface with a dinosaur theme that encourages students to enhance and develop basic search methodologies. Students will be riveted by the colorful, animated interface, complete with erupting volcanoes and a dinosaur guide, as they gather information on a wide range of topics. Searchasaurus offers Lexile limiters (reading level), making it easy for students to read and research only appropriately challenging materials. The following databases are included in the Searchasaurus family:
NoveList® K-8 Plus - We know that NoveList® K-8 is a great online resource for helping teachers, school media specialists and kids find that next great fiction read. Now NoveList K-8 Plus provides access to over 17,000 nonfiction titles designed to support the curriculum and kids’ pleasure reading. Created especially for kids (and the adults who work with them), it has a colorful, graphic-rich homepage and is very easy to use.
Librarians and school media specialists can be confident that the content is appropriate for the intended age group and reading level, since every title that goes into NoveList K-8 Plus is selected by the team of school media specialists and children’s librarians at NoveList. Busy librarians and school media specialists will also appreciate the time-saving, added-value features including Grab and Go Book Lists on a variety of fiction and nonfiction curricular-based topics, BookTalks, Curricular Connections and feature articles by industry experts.
- Grab and Go Book Lists developed by School Media Specialists provide hand selected titles on a variety of reading levels and curricular topics.
- Hundreds of hand-crafted Recommended Reads reading lists created for teens and kids covering both fiction and nonfiction genres and topics.
- Over 700 BookTalks.
- 450 searchable Award Lists.
- Hundreds of Feature Articles and Curricular Connection articles by notable librarians and subject matter experts on a wide variety of topics, issues and reading levels.
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