| Database | Use when you need: | |
| Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) | General Research | |
| ERIC | Scholarly Journals | |
| Lexis Nexis | Education and the Law | |
| New Georgia Encyclopedia | Education in Georgia | |
| Professional Development Collection | ||
| Proquest Educational Journals | Scholarly Journals | |
| Proquest Newspapers | Newspaper articles | |
| Reseach Library (Proquest) | General Research | |
| Vocational & Career Collection | ||
| Database | For teaching K-12 students | |
| History Reference Center | ||
| Kids Click! | ||
| Kids Search | ||
| Kids.gov | ||
What are Lexiles and how do they support the Common Core Standards?
Some EBSCO databases include Lexiles, or reading levels, in citation information. The Lexile rankings assigned to a result provide educators with an estimate of the reading difficulty of the result, and the approximate grade level reading ability required for comprehension.
The Lexile table below aligns the Lexiles with the Common Core Standards' recommendations for text complexity grade bands.
| Grade Band | Current Lexile Band | "Stretch" Lexile Band |
| K-1 | N/A | N/A |
| 2-3 | 450L-725L | 420L-820L |
| 4-5 | 645L-845L | 740L-1010L |
| 6-8 | 860L-1010L | 925L-1185L |
| 9-10 | 960L-1115L | 1050L-1335L |
| 11-CCR | 1070L-1220L | 1185L-1385L |
The Common Core Standards promote increasing text complexity to help students build on literacy success and challenge themselves with more complex texts. The chart shown above is a guideline to select appropriate text for each grade, including text for a "stretch" to the next level.