Scholastic has digitized its classic True Books nonfiction series, debuting an online learning resource called TrueFlix earlier this month. The site has enhanced e-books, videos, articles, images, and related media, and is aimed at students in grades 3 to 5, focusing on science and social studies.
Scholastic launched the site with 47 titles from the Children's Press series, which has been a staple in libraries and classrooms for more than 60 years. Topics range from climate change to black holes and the Declaration of Independence; more titles will follow at a later date. For each topic, students can watch a video, read a flipbook version of the book (with page-turning and read-along features, chapter tabs, and vocabulary terms identified and defined), and read related content such as primary source documents and articles from Grolier Online.
When a school or library purchases TrueFlix, parents, teachers, and students in the school and across the community can access it with a username and password via the Web.
