Orders are due by the 20th of each month

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Online Reader

Online Reader is an interdisciplinary database of expository reading content designed to build students' reading comprehension skills across content areas. Its direct-assign format allows teachers to choose from high interest, nonfiction magazine articles and assign them to students according to individual reading needs. Lexile™ readability indicators are available for each article to facilitate selection. Each Online Reader article has a reading comprehension test that is automatically graded and question types are similar to those found on standardized tests. Online grade book and progress report features track student performance and achievement. Thematic teacher guides provide activities correlated to standards and explore expository writing and expression.

With Online Reader, EBSCO Publishing Technology Supports Classroom Instruction:

• Qualifies for "Reading First" and "No Child Left Behind" funding
• Fulfills the needs of heterogeneous classrooms
• Features Keyword/Subject/Lexile searches
• Correlates to curriculum standards
• Provides students with practice for standardized tests
• Question formats focus on critical thinking skills such as web,sequence, main idea, analogy, fact v. opinion
• Offers thematic units and lesson plans for teachers
• Supplies empirical data that tracks student progress
• Fulfills specific Title I and IDEA mandates

Online Reader allows article assignments from EBSCO Publishing's core school databases. This allows teachers to assign articles from the databases for student research and additional reading practice.

For information on the use of Lexiles, go to www.lexile.com. Lexile™ is part of the Lexile Framework for Reading, and is used with permission from MetaMetrics.

For more information:

Ebsco Online Reader website

Trial Account: http://trial.ebscohost.com

Username: esc11

Password: trial

Pricing information is available on TETPC 2008-2009 Fax Order Form.

Fax Your Order, along with Signed Purchase Orders, made out to ESC Region XI to Bonnie Barnes, ESC Region XI at 817-740-3650.

Orders are due by the 20th of each month for activation the following month.