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Designed to meet the unique needs of its users, Explora supports both student research and classroom instruction with rich, reliable content and easy-to-use functionality.
Target Audience:
Grades 6-12
Content Connections: All
Standards Alignment: Alignment to Common Core and some state standards through a Curriculum Standards module.
Content & Features
Easy-to-browse categories organized by popular topic to inspire research ideas.
Image Carousel features new articles and featured information. Click Learn More to access more information.
Topic Overview will give you background information about your topic to help you start your research. Clicking More will take you to the full article.
High-Quality Articles from reputable publishers, recognized by library professionals and selected for use in a school environment.
Videos from the Associated Press, the world's leading news agency.
Full Text appears in HTML and/or PDF. HTML Full Text allows you to listen to the text read aloud. PDF Full Text is a scanned version of the original text. You can print or download the complete article using the icons in the PDF Full text window.
Cite icon will provide citation information to help you build a works cited page.
Navigation
Simple search that quickly delivers relevant results including articles, essays and primary source documents.
Lexile measure to simplify discovery of texts that match students’ reading abilities. Lexilesare labeled beside resource titles in Search Results, and in each Detailed Record; the Lexile number is linked to a Lexile Support page.
Use Advanced Search to search by Lexile range or number.
Text-to-speech for HTML articles to assist auditory learners and those learning English.
Full-text translation in more than 30 languages for HTML articles.
Ability to view, save, print and email citations in many different formats.
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