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TrueFlix Interactive eBooks now available!

The Library is now offering a new free resource for younger readers through the library web site. Scholastic’s TrueFlix is the only online resource that uses the award-winning True Books content to help students in grades 3-5 sharpen literacy skills and build knowledge of subject-area content. All of the True Book titles are supported with a deep and diverse reservoir of related content and primary sources featuring videos, audio, images, and text. TrueFlix is accessible both in the library and at home through the link on the library website.

Each TrueFlix title includes a streaming video that engages the student and introduces the topic and a flipbook version of the True Book with page-turning and read-along features, chapter tabs, and vocabulary terms indentified and defined. Students are able to progress from “learning to read” to “reading to learn” and master content area knowledge in science and social studies. There are 47 True Book titles available in 8 categories including U.S. Government, Ecosystems and Space.

Library Director Pier Lee explains “Our library is constantly searching for new ways to engage our young readers, and TrueFlix really brings books to life with video, sounds, and links to related web site. It’s a companion to the already available BookFlix for preschoolers.”

For more information about TrueFlix or BookFlix, please contact Heather Blake, Children’s Librarian at 724.941.9430 ext. 314 or email HLBlake@ptlibrary.org.