License Start: January 1, 2025
License End: December 31, 2025
Vendor: World Book Inc.
Description:
Discover provides encyclopedia articles at 2 reading levels, trivia games and quizzes, new content in the Life Skills section, answers to user-asked questions, animal facts, and a notecards/research paper writing feature. It is ideal for reluctant readers, ELL, ESL, and adult literacy students. The “Life Skills” section was developed especially for these users to help them negotiate financial, health, housing, and employment issues. The “Find by Topic” feature includes browsable categories of high-interest topics along with icons for image-based navigation. Discover also includes features and functionality to support those learning English as a second language, with read-aloud functionality and a translation tool enabling text from articles to be translated into more than 100 other languages. Proprietary “World Book Explains” videos on a variety of subjects provide unique and engaging answers from experts in their field. Discover provides support students preparing for college and careers.
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