Website: http://www.worldbook.com/
Publisher/Place of Publication/Date: World Book, Inc.
Price: $380.25(per school based on District purchase)
ISBN: N/A
Dewey: N/A
Reading Level: Varies
Brief Description of Content: The online, interactive, multi-media version of the traditional printed encyclopedias. World Book has taken their expertise in publishing and moved it to the Internet.
Personal Review: Offered to a variety of different ages and reading levels, and including a number of different databases, this is a great product. Every time I use it, I find more and more to like about it. WorldBookKids offers readable but useful text that students in third or forth grade could really read and understand. This offers a great opportunity for getting information but also for practice reading and comprehending from the computer screen. Below each piece of information is the proper citation which not only provides the right format but also alerts the students that they need to include such a thing.
Review Sources:
School Library Journal
A long list of reviews and awards from the World Book website.
Standards: Standards are cross-referenced and thus, can be accessed in a number of different ways. When a subject is searched, a link is provided to access the standard for that particular subject. Or, the user can start with the standard and identify information or articles for that standard. As a subscriber, the standards information is tailored to your location.
Selection rationale: This is a comprehensive reliable tool for a variety of ages. It includes a number of relevant products within the main interface including a dictionary, recommended articles, books and websites external to the World Book site itself. It also offers lesson plans for teachers, an atlas, a biography section, and current news headlines from PBS. School subscription includes home access for students.
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