The Elementary module offers both a general and grade-specific home pages. The home-page design emphasizes browsing by subject from a central Topic Search panel and allows access to key information and activities by source. A special section for educators offers retrieval of activities by grade and subject area.

Content includes:

• Full-text archives of classroom magazines from Weekly Reader^® from September 2000 to the most current issue: Weekly Reader 2, 3, 4, and Senior. Student content is linked to corresponding Teacher's Guide material and activities; activities are linked to the corresponding answer keys.
• Curriculum Alignment: Weekly Reader classroom magazine articles are aligned to curriculum standards in all 50 states.
• TextHelp text-to-speech toolbar reads classroom magazine articles aloud, for beginning readers, aural comprehension, and ESL practice.
• The World Almanac for Kids, from 1999 through the most current edition, with associated grade-specific activities from Teacher Created Materials™.
• World Almanac para Niños, featuring the full contents of The World Almanac for Kids in Spanish.
• Reference Library, featuring an Atlas, the illustrated Wordsmyth™ Beginners, Children's, and Advanced dictionaries; grade-appropriate reference book series from Gareth Stevens, a browsable Picture Gallery, and The Oxford American Children's Encyclopedia (second edition).
• Library and Research Skills, with book, activity, and menu content that teaches library use and offers guidance on research and writing assignments.
• Fun Facts sprinkled throughout the database that both inform and entertain novice researchers.
• This Month's Top Five, a collection of original features on topics of timely interest, linked to relevant information within the module and safe, appropriate external websites.
• Teacher's Toolbox, allowing educators to search the Weekly Reader^® Teacher's Guides and select activities by grade range and curriculum area.

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