When you are creating lesson plans for K-12 students, you may need age-appropriate news articles and resources to include. The databases below are search engines intended for use by K-12 students and include lexile reading levels for articles.
Primary Search provides full text for more than 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.
Middle Search Plus provides full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,774 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and a School Image Collection of photos, maps and flags
Contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines covering general reference, health, history, science, and other areas. Provides indexing to an additional 520 magazines. All full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Also includes full-text for 85,670 biographies, 107,000 primary source documents and over 360 reference books. Coverage: 1975 - present.
