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Are you challenged with finding high-interest content in support of English proficiency standards? SIRS Discoverer makes it easy for English Language Learners, and their educators, to find just the right article, graphic or website.

Here’s how SIRS Discoverer supports and empowers ELL students:

Lexile Scores:Lexile reading level scores for every document help ELL students select content by reader ability and text difficulty. With the Advanced Search feature, search results can be narrowed by a range of Lexile levels to find appropriate material.

Color Coded Reading Levels:In addition to Lexile Scores, SIRS editorial hand-assigns and color codes a reading difficulty level based on text and content complexity.

Editorial Touch:SIRS editors select 100% full-text content daily from a variety of safe sources, excluding confusing reviews, schedules, or captions. In addition, SIRS Discoverer offers editorially-written summaries of every article, subject indexing, in-line thumbnail pictures and textual visual literacy.

Skills Discoverer:SIRS Discoverer’s unique database feature provides hand-selected weblinks to high interest, interactive games and activities engaging students and encouraging independent use as they build English language skills in all curricula areas. Six sub-curricula topics related to Language Arts make this feature particularly useful to ELL users!

Graphics:Other Database Features such as Biographies, Fiction and Activities provide easy access to high-interest targeted reading material with supporting graphics such as tables, charts, maps, diagrams, photographs and illustrations.