[LM_NET] EBSCO database for lower level kids

[Carol Van Brocklin <carolannvan@MOTIMAIL.COM>]

Good morning all:
          I am sure that there is a simple way to do this, 
but I haven't been able to figure it out yet so if someone 
could help me.
          One of our Jr. High teachers is asking me to 
help her class with using the EBSCO magazine database for 
a controversial topics paper that she is having them do 
next week. These students are in 8th grade but many of 
them are ESL and thus at a lower level than some in 
reading.
          She said that the last time we did EBSCO with 
this group (last fall) many of them got discouraged 
because they couldn't understand many of the articles that 
came up. Since we encouraged them to use either the 
"Student Resource Center" or the "Kids Search" portion of 
EBSCO both of us assumed that this would mean that the 
articles were simpler than the ones that you would get 
with the regular database. This didn't prove to be true.
         Since I usually use this database with our older 
students and they have few problems with it, I have vowed 
that I am going to figure out how to make this work for 
ALL of our students if possible.
         Also, although I don't have much say in which 
databases we subscribe to (we are the "sister" school of a 
much larger school where these things are usually decided) 
if someone knows of a better deal out there than EBSCO, 
please let me know and I can put a bug in a few people's 
ears and see where it goes.

Thanks for your help everyone!

Carol Van Brocklin
Librarian
Faith Academy-Mindanao
Davao City, Philippines
carolannvan@motimail.com

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