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Vetted and Effective PreK–5 Resources to Support Oklahoma ELA Initiatives and Much More

Infobase helps you create ELA activities, lessons, and courses that students need, with easy-to-use content you can trust.

Infobase delivers standards-aligned streaming video, activities, lesson plans, printables, databases, quizzes, homework help, games, eBooks, and more that support Oklahoma’s ELA standards for grades PreK–5 through seamless integrations into your institution’s LMS.
As noted in the Oklahoma Academic Standards for Language Arts, literate citizenry possesses the skills required to analyze, evaluate, act upon, and compose a wide range of communications. An ultimate goal of language arts education is the development of informed citizens who can contribute to the common good. Infobase lets you create activities, lessons, and courses that students need with easy-to-use content you can trust.
Contact us today to learn how Infobase can help Oklahoma schools meet their elementary ELA requirements.
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Our comprehensive bundle includes a variety of content that aligns to these 8 overarching standards, which encompass the content and competencies of English language arts:

  1. Listening and Speaking

  2. Reading and Writing Foundations/Process

  3. Critical Reading and Writing

  4. Vocabulary

  5. Language

  6. Research

  7. Multimodal Literacies

  8. Independent Reading and Writing

These rich resources are perfect for courses serving English Language Learners as well as for English language arts remediation programs to improve skills and advance learners to the appropriate curriculum level.
Plus, these resources include more than just ELA content, making them an extraordinary value and appropriate for use throughout your entire institution.

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These online products are student-focused, user-friendly, and educator time-savers and are available as a bundle or sold separately.

Learn360

Streaming media and more! This multiple award-winning product offers a host of instruction-friendly features, such as in-video quizzes, the ability to add a personalized intro to playlists, and much more. Look for these titles to reinforce and teach ELA skills to PreK–5:

  • Bitesize - ELA Basics series (BBC Learning)
  • Parts of Speech: Nouns, Proper Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs series
  • Adjectives for Armando: Introductions to Parts of Speech
  • Reading Rainbow series
  • Mr. Nussbaum’s Learning Games & Reading Comprehension Activities
  • Commas: Grammar in Action
  • Context for Writing
  • Which Words End with -ture and -sure?
  • How to Use To, Too, and Two
  • Puzzle 7: Capitalization
  • Thomas Comma
  • Let’s Build Stories
  • ABC Alphabet Vocabulary
  • Tune Up to Literacy
  • Sing & Learn Phonics
Learn more about Learn360.

The Mailbox® Plus

The Mailbox® Plus is packed with 52,000+ fun and engaging ideas, activities, and worksheets that help inspire imaginations while teaching essential ELA skills and more. Look for these activities and lessons for grades pre-K to 6th grade:

  • Writing Longer Sentences
  • Spelling Puzzle
  • Make & Use Compound Words
  • Multiple-Meaning Words
  • Language & Speaking Skills
  • Main & Helping Verbs
  • Apostrophes & Contractions
  • Letter-Sound Association
  • Match Words to Meanings
  • Comprehension Strategies
  • Spelling List Maker Tool
Learn more about The Mailbox® Plus

The World Almanac® for Kids

Each topic area in this vetted, ad-free title provides resources for homework, reports, and projects, and kids can explore age-appropriate subjects while developing online research skills with a trusted content source. Take a look at these topic sections:

  • Grammar and Punctuation: Clear, concise entries, many with images and diagrams, explaining the often confusing rules of grammar and punctuation. Fun Facts articles offer interesting tidbits of information about the English language, plus a punctuation quiz and videos with punctuation tips.
  • Reader’s Corner: Biographies of popular authors and profiles of their most popular books—plus Fun Facts and lists of recommended books.
  • Sentences and Paragraphs: Articles covering sentence and paragraph structure, including grammar, types of paragraphs, and topic sentences, as well as tips on editing and revising your writing. Includes Fun Facts articles, videos, and games and puzzles.
  • Take a Stand: Offers students and educators an opportunity to explore how to make an argument, back it up with facts, apply critical-thinking skills, and take a stand on relevant topics such as “Is Social Media a Positive or Negative Influence on Young People?” Includes Fun Facts articles, plus brief videos on honing critical-thinking and problem-solving skills.
  • Writers, Poets & Journalists (biographies): Highlights groundbreaking and popular authors from throughout history.
Learn more about The World Almanac® for Kids

The World Almanac® for Kids Elementary

Illustrated articles, videos, interactives, Fun Facts, teacher resources, and more in a colorful, kid-friendly format—perfect for helping young children develop online research, reading, and writing skills. Take a look at these topic sections:

  • Reader’s Corner: Lists of recommended fiction and nonfiction books for young readers, each organized by grade level. Includes videos about different letters of the alphabet and Fun Facts articles.
  • Reading and Literature: Includes age-appropriate information on literary genres, elements, and devices, plus videos such as Dr. Seuss Literary Devices and What Are Metaphors and Similes?
  • Vocabulary: Includes sections Word Meanings, Word Structure, and Words to Know, plus vocabulary Fun Facts and videos.
  • Coming Soon—Writer’s Corner and Grammar topic sections!
Learn more about The World Almanac® for Kids Elementary

Valuable features that make our resources trustworthy, effective, and easy to use

  • Vetted, safe, ad-free content with new content added regularly 
  • Available 24/7—on-site or remote access
  • Browser-based—no special software or hardware needed
  • A wide variety of media types to help engage students and increase their understanding of key concepts
  • Easily add content to lesson plans and LMSs

  • Fully responsive and mobile friendly—will work on any type of device
  • Educational standards
  • Share content to Google Classroom
  • Dynamic citations in multiple formats

“Infobase’s answer to the classic teacher’s nightmare…No more late night or weekend marathons putting together lesson plans…User-friendly and easily searchable, The Mailbox® is an elegant solution to what used to be a persistent dilemma…[The Mailbox® is] sure to impact 21st Century education.” —The ComputED Gazette—

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Complement Your Summer Reading Programs with Video and More

Summer reading season is coming up! Librarians know that a great way to promote the library’s resources, encourage young patrons to read more, and help prevent the dreaded “summer slide” is to put on engaging summer reading programs. Infobase has a variety of engaging content you can use as part of these programs, from animated versions of the storybooks you most likely have on your shelves, to eBooks of great literary classics, to fun and informative videos to help your patrons learn more about great books and the authors who wrote them.  Content for Younger Summer Readers Got any fans of Arthur or the Berenstain Bears in your community? Just for Kids streaming media for public libraries features numerous cartoons based on popular children’s book series that you can use in conjunction with the books themselves. Consider introducing a series to your young patrons by showing them an episode of it and then showing them where in the library the books are located so they can read more.  Some of these cartoons include: The Berenstain Bears (Item #79830; available in the U.S. and Canada) Franklin the Turtle (Item #79831; available in the U.S. and Canada) Dr. Seuss (Item #66571; available

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3 Tips to Fight the “Summer Slide”

You’ve heard about it, you’ve likely witnessed it in students, and you more than likely experienced it when you were young and still in school. As much as students (and teachers) love summer vacation, it comes with a downside: the “summer slide” (otherwise known as the “summer slump”), or the backslide in student learning that happens after being out of school for a long period of time, which means teachers may need  to cover old material to refresh students before they can progress to new lessons.  But it’s not inevitable. We’ve highlighted several ways K–12 educators can help fight that summer slide and help their students start off on the right foot when fall rolls around.  1. Start a Summer Reading Program Many public libraries host summer reading programs, but that doesn’t mean you can’t “host” your own! Have your students pick two or three grade-level-appropriate books to finish over summer break and prepare a five-minute presentation highlighting what they liked about them. For students interested in the classics, you could have them pick one of the full-text eBook classic literary works they can find in Bloom’s Literature for their summer reading. Bloom’s Literature also features a wide range of

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Looking for Earth Day Content? Start with Infobase

Since 1970, every April 22 has been dedicated to increasing awareness about the environment and the steps we can take to preserve the only home we’ve ever known, including helping clean up pollution, preventing deforestation, preserving precious habitats for our wildlife, and fighting the carbon emissions that contribute to climate change. Infobase has a wide variety of content that your institution can use to inspire people of all ages in your schools and communities to take action on Earth Day and every other day of the year. Table of Contents Streaming Media Resources for Earth Day Looking for videos and other media on the environment to kick off Earth Day celebrations? Infobase’s streaming video collections— the award-winning Learn360 for K–12 schools and districts, Classroom Video On Demand for secondary schools, Films On Demand for colleges and universities, and Access Video On Demand and Just for Kids for public libraries—are a wonderful place to start, with a wide range of videos that are both educational and fun, some of which include lesson plans and student activities for educators in schools and homeschools alike. Subscribers to Learn360 and Just for Kids can introduce younger students to the environmental issues with videos featuring

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