Spotlight On: New, Free Research Sites
Great news for all of you who build research and nonfiction reading skills with your students (and that's...um...all of us?). As some of you may know, the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners offers free access to a number of digital research databases for all Massachusetts residents. This fall, they announced that they were adding new databases to this list, and three of them stand out as extremely useful in the classroom. This morning, we added special links to these resources to the the district's Clever portal . You can read a bit more about each them below. PebbleGo PebbleGo is an amazing, easy-to-use site that gets kids excited to learn facts about our world. For this year, MBLC has purchased the Animals and Biographies sections of the product. From the PebbleGo website: "PebbleGo is a curricular content hub specifically designed for K-2 students. Packed with informational articles, ready-made activities, and literacy supports for students of all abilities,