More good news about BookCarts and meeting your students' needs!

Many teachers that teach the same subject in Social Studies, English, and Science often have classes with students grouped by "ability" levels: Honors, middle track, and special needs. Too often, the textbook used for all these students is identical and delivers information at one reading level.

How can teachers address the different reading level needs of these separate groups with one textbook? How can teachers keep curriculum topics current when textbooks are often more than five years old?

eLibrary BookCarts provide collections of learning resources, on the same curriculum topic, that teachers can customize to meet the reading level and interest needs of their students. eLibrary provides either a Lexile reading level option for each article or an alternate grade level reading indicator based on the Gunning-Fogg, Flesch-Kincaid Index. Your librarian can set up eLibrary to deliver articles with the appropriate indicator for your school.

The trend in most schools is to use Lexile scores, because this measure is based on scientific research on the degree of difficulty of reading and understanding text.

Increasingly, many states are adopting Lexiles as their preferred tool for determining what text to use to help students better understand what they read. Most standardized tests are now using Lexiles to ensure that students will be able to understand what they read at different grade levels in which these tests are given.

Activity: You can see some examples of ProQuest model BookCarts that provide both higher and lower Lexile-leveled resources on the same curriculum topic. Now. a teacher can make an inquiry-based learning assignment using separate custom-Lexiled BookCarts, ensuring all students have an opportunity to read with understanding and complete the assignment.

Pathfinder:

1. Access eLibrary or eLibrary CE, then enter your eLibrary or eLibrary CE Teacher Edition by clicking one of these links.
   
   
2. Select the BookCart Admin link at the top-right corner of the page.
   
   
3. Click the ProQuest Carts tab.
   
   
4. Open the folder Lexiled Cart on the Same Topic.
   
   
5. Click the View icon to the right of the BookCarts topics that you want to review or copy to your local collection.
   
   
6. Select a Copy icon (eye) to the right of any Cart(s) you wish to copy.
   
   
7. Select the Return to My Local Carts link.
   
   
8. The BookCart(s) you copied should be edited for best use. Click the new BookCart title you just copied to open the BookCart Editor.
   
   
9. Delete "Copy of" from the BookCart title. Make any other changes you wish.
   
   
10. Add your name in the Author boxes, then add any other content you wish to the Cart.
    
    
11. Click Save button at bottom.
    
    
12. All BookCarts can be shared with other teachers to ensure use of best practices in the classroom and save time through collaboration.

You can also include essential questions, special instructions, and quizzes in each BookCart in the Description box. Now when students open the BookCart, at school or at home, they will have all the information and resources that they need to complete an assignment.

Click this link for an example of the kind of information that teachers can include.