Pre-K & Elementary

Educational games to promote early literacy for ages 2-7.

Pairs classic video storybooks with related fiction and nonfiction books for pre-K through 3rd grade, from Scholastic.

CultureGrams provides country reports that deliver a perspective on daily life and culture, and individual reports covering 200+ countries, all 50 United States, and the Canadian provinces.  Find recipes, printable flags and maps, audios of national anthems, statistics and more. Video Tutorials: All Editions (16:31)

Look up articles and facts for research papers, class projects or homework. Get information from trustworthy sources that you can cite in your papers. Designed with students and educators in mind.

Search full-text articles, historical documents, biographies, maps and photos. Great for students of history. Classic version.

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Includes 400 high quality, authentic Spanish language children’s books. You’ll find picture books, read-along books with audio, and interactive eBooks complete with a Spanish language search and interface. 

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Find fiction and nonfiction titles for kids and young adults. Search by title, author, series or reading level to find similar titles and reviews.

Find fiction and nonfiction books to read or listen to. Search by favorite author, title or series and find similar titles, reviews and reading group guides.

Full-text magazine articles for elementary school research. All full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles.)

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An online collection of animated, talking picture books for young kids to discover the joys of reading.

Tutor.com provides online, on-demand academic tutoring, homework help, and test preparation to kindergarten through 12th grade students, plus early college students, adult learners, and support for job seekers.

• Connect with a highly qualified, expert English or Spanish speaking tutor in a safe and secure online classroom from 3pm - 10pm, 7 days a week (with four exceptions: New Year's Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas).
• Tutor.com offers expert writing help, test prep resources from The Princeton Review® for the ACT®/SAT®, Advanced Placement (AP®) course videos, help with a resume, and more. 
• Access with your library card. An additional account with an email address is needed for services beyond a live tutoring session, and for the talk function in a tutoring session. If a child under 13 creates an additional account, they will be restricted to a text only tutoring session.

Provides a complete overview of our nation’s past that covers the most-studied events, decades, conflicts, wars, political and cultural movements, and people from reference sources, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted web sites.

From the ancient world to today’s headlines. A chronicle of the great cultures and societies that have formed the history of the human race. Rare primary sources, reliable reference and multimedia content put this vast topic into context.