LibGuides: MS Nonfiction Leveled Sources: Home

Check out the Fountas and Pinnel Reading Levels Website and the Lexile.com to find the levels of particular materials and books.

Text on the following Databases are leveled in various ways.

Most are divided by Grade levels, matched up with Lexile or F & P levels.

Some have audio capability.

Newsela takes authentic, new content from trusted providers and turns it into learning materials. It allows users to adjust the reading levels of individual articles by lexile levels.

Sirs Discoverer This link opens in a new window
ProQuest SIRS Discoverer is a multidisciplinary database for elementary and middle school learners, researchers, and educators covering curriculum areas such as current events, history, health, language arts, math, science, social studies, and technology. All newspaper, magazine and reference content is 100% full text, editorially-selected and indexed from over 2,200 reliable, high-quality domestic and international sources. The collection includes 9,000 integrated educational weblinks, and reference materials such as the Compton’s by Britannica encyclopedia and DK Eyewitness books.

Britannica School This link opens in a new window
Explore the updated online encyclopedia from Encyclopaedia Britannica with hundreds of thousands of articles, biographies, videos, images, and Web sites.

Britannica Social Studies Launchpacks This link opens in a new window
Britannica Launchpacks package information about cultures and historical topics in "packs" for research. The information is taken from the Encyclopedia Britannica.

FactCite This link opens in a new window
FactCite is an award-winning collection of online reference resources designed and written especially for students in grade 1 - 8. Includes biographies, history, science, mythology, states, countries and much more.

Scholastic Go! This link opens in a new window
Grolier offers encyclopedia and nonfiction information from elementary to adult levels. All articles are lexiled and are correlated to national and state standards, with over 340,000 editor vetted web links, and over 1,100 world newspapers in 73 languages representing 195 countries.

World Book Encylopedias This link opens in a new window
World Book Online is a suite of online research tools that includes encyclopedia articles, primary source collections, educator tools, student activities, pictures, audio, and video, complemented by current periodicals and related Web sites.