eBook tools and features encourage student interaction with text.
They strengthen student growth in key reading skills;
support a close reading of each text;
help students focus on the key or essential understandings;
and give students the tools to practice and demonstrate critical-thinking skills
that are necessary
to meet 21st-century skills
and state and national literacy standards.
Books on Learning A-Z websites come with our eBook features.
Here are some ways you can use the features with your students
to help them be active, independent readers.
The interactive features are easily found in each
Read version of a book.
Students can access these tools
and features to help build skills at any time.
Before asking students to use the tools and features,
model the skills you want students to practice.
Recording features allow students to record themselves reading
and playback the recordings to hear their own fluency.
Students will need a computer or device with a working microphone.
Students can record, pause, and playback their recordings;
and send these practice recordings to your
In Basket as an informal fluency check.
Draw, highlight, and stamp tools make it easy for students to circle,
underline, highlight, or stamp parts of the text
or text features to practice a variety of reading skills.
For example, students can underline a word
they don’t know along with the context to help them define it.
Students can highlight details to show how things are alike
or how they are different
OR students can highlight to cite evidence
when answering quiz questions after reading.
Students can also use the various stamps for skill practice.
Skill practice can include stamping a star on the main character of a story
OR stamping a question mark next to a section
that sparks a question not answered right there in the text.
Notes let students use their own words to ask questions
about what they’re reading …
or write the main idea or a quick summary of a section.
The eJournal helps students keep track of new words
as they read as well as reflect on what they just read.
Students add a word by typing the word
and as much information about that word as they can,
starting with their own definition and context sentence.
Students write reflections in their eJournal
to connect what they’re reading to another text,
state quick opinions, or respond in another way to the text.
Individual words within a text also offer students
a menu of options that provide additional phonics,
fluency and vocabulary support.
Students click on a word and might see the options to
hear the word spoken aloud, (calf)
highlight it,
add it to their Word Journal
where they can explore the word’s meaning on their own,
or view the Vocabulary Card,
which offers details to strengthen student
understanding of a word’s meaning.
Teaching students how to use the eBook features gives them the tools
they need to identify and understand
the key ideas in each book through reading closely
and thinking critically.
eBook tools and features provide a fun
and engaging interactive experience for you
and your students to meet today’s literacy standards.