World Book Kids is the premier general reference website developed especially for young students. The site features simple navigation, easy-to-read articles, thousands of illustrations, videos, comparison tools, and a wealth of engaging games and activities. 

Target Audience: Grades 1-4

Content Connections:  Supports all content areas

Access: Username and password information for BCPS staff and students can be found on the BCPS Digital Content Access Page. 

⭐Click here to see a list of translation, accommodation, and modification features available for Multilingual Learners and students with special education needs.⭐

Tutorials & Guides

• • Video Tutorial

  • Training Guide

Educator Resources (must log in to see these materials)

• • Curriculum Correlations

  • Lesson Plans

  • Accomodation Tools

• New Accessibility Features: These new features include translation, read aloud, large print that can be made larger in the browser window, large images, and a new student-friendly layout. 

• Maps and More:  The online atlas covers the whole globe interactively, linking from map to map.  Also includes interactive clickable maps, and printable map and flag outlines.

• Compare Places: Compare Places can be used to explore and compare countries, states, provinces, and continents. 

• Dictionary: The dictionary contains approximately 250,000 entries.

• Encyclopedia Articles: World Book Kids offers thousands of media-rich encyclopedia articles that are carefully selected and edited to suit the educational level of the users.

• Games and Activities: World Book Kids features game on curriculum topics related to Important People, Math, Reading and Grammar, Science, and Social Studies topics. Adobe's Flash plub-in is required to play games.  

• Science Projects:  Find science project and experiment ideas for long term and last minute projects.

• Important People:  World Book's Important People provides a simple search and browse interface for young users to locate biography articles.

• Pictures: Thousands of pictures illustrate World Book articles. Pictures include photographs, animal illustrations, reproductions of great works of art, and much more. 

• Sounds: World Book Kids offers audio clips of bird songs, popular and classical music, national anthems, and much more. To play sound clips, users will need the Adobe Flash plug-in, which is already installed on most browsers.

• Videos: World Book Kids offers videos and animations. To view the videos, users will need the Adobe Flash plug-in, which is already installed on most browsers.

• Web Sites: Selected articles feature age-appropriate, editor-selected websites, accessible at the bottom of the article page.

• World of Animals: Browse the animals by selecting the arrows to the right and left of the animal tiles; choose an animal by clicking the animal's picture.

• More Information on World Book Student: Additional information is available on the World Book Student. Users can access the link to Student in the blue box at the bottom of search results and article pages. 

• Featured Image and Article: A large full screen image is featured on the front page with an article related to the featured image. This image changes each time you access the home page of World Book Kids. 

• Lexiles: To find the Lexile of an article in World Book Kids, click on the Contents tab to the right of the screen. The Lexile will appear in the window that pops up.  

  • Use this Reading Level Correlations chart to match Lexile to grade level.