Explora
AVL- Explora
Explora is a research website that students can use to find information that is narrowed down much more than a general search engine such as Google. This site is mainly for students sixth grade and under, however, I do believe that any student would benefit from using this site. My favorite thing about this site is that as you are researching, you can narrow down the lexile level of the articles that you wish to see, so you can pick articles that your students know that they can read and they are not confused about every word in the article. Being a sixth grade teacher this is going to be very helpful in my classroom as students work on a PBL about under- represented people of NASA.
I am really interested in this database. I like that this website is like a search engine. It sounds like it would be student friendly for my students to be able to use on their own. My students are sixth graders, and I do my best to hand over the rains to them when it comes to researching a topic. I teach reading, so it is very important to me that I could choose articles based off of my student's lexile levels. Reading nonfiction texts is harder than fiction. I would feel more comfortable knowing that the articles that my students are reading are at their appropriate reading level so they could read without confusion.
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