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Worldbook Online
St Philomena’s subscribes to Worldbook Online which is the online version of the well known Worldbook Encyclopaedia series. The subscription is open to all students.
Our World Book subscription allows us to give you and your family access to this valuable reference source at your home computers 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. We hope that your whole family will use the World Book sites often to help with homework, special projects, at-home learning and information seeking. We have also just started trialling their ebook platform. I encourage you to have a look with your child/ ren as there are some amazing factual texts available to our students.
To access the World Book Web, follow these simple steps:
Go to www.worldbookonline.com
Enter Username stpcs2400
Enter Password stpcs2400
Save your user name and password for faster login – simply tick the box labelled “Remember my ID and password”. The next time you visit World Book the login prompt will already contain your username and password.
Once you arrive at the World Book home page, you should bookmark the page or add to favourites for easy access to World Book in the future.
World Book Kids—is based on World Book’s award winning Discovery Encyclopedia and is designed to give younger students, ESL students and reluctant readers a rewarding online learning experience. The site illustrations, diagrams and maps enrich more than 2,000 articles selected for appeal and relevance.
World Book Student—forms the foundation of an expansive reference database that includes over 40,000 encyclopedia and reference articles, thousands of links to outside web sites selected by World Book editors and contributors. It also includes an extensive Dictionary and Atlas plus audios, visuals and animations.
World Book Advanced—tailored for the needs of older students, it includes encyclopedic content, integrates primary and secondary source databases plus more than 5,500 e-books in a single search, over 700 e-books can be downloaded to e-readers and iPads, and a wealth of research tools that allow students to customise and save their work.
World Book eBooks- includes highly illustrated, engaging titles that support a span of curriculum areas and reading levels. It includes World Book's entire frontlist and backlist of nearly 400 books. As well as the BOLT collection of titles on appealing topics with accessible, leveled text helps even the most challenged readers understand the material and enjoy reading. You also have access to the World Classics Collection of nearly 2,000 titles gives easy access to titles from well-known authors such as William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, and Mark Twain.
**Please remember that login and password information is for students and their families only, and extending this information to people who are not part of our school community could result in the loss of at-home access for our students.**