Generic District Access
"Duval County would like for ALL elementary students to have access to this wonderful resource at home. With the generic account, students are able to go on the resource and locate leveled books appropriate for their grade level. This login is ONLY for DCPS students."
Link: www.eduplace.com/eservices
Generic District Username: dcpsstudent
Generic password: student
Houghton Mifflin with Duval County Schools has provided everything you could want in online books accessable from the comforts of home.
1) Type the "Link" address into your browser and "Enter"
2) You will reach the HM (Houghton Mifflin) eServices home page. Click on "Reading" or "Online Leveled Book." They lead to the same page.
3) Now you will see 2 tabs: "My Books" and "Find Books." (I have not assigned books to students.) Click on "Find Books."
4) You will have 2 more choices: "Search" and "Browse." In Search you can type in the title that I have recommended in the left column of the blog. Because we are beginning a unit on electricity in Science, this week's book titles are Lights On! and Thomas Edison and the Light Bulb. In Browse you will have 8 categories to choose from.
5) Find the book you want to read or have read to you and click on that book.
6) With the book open, you can enlarge the text, pause, have the entire text read to you without stopping, rewind, jump to particular "tracks" on each page, print, go to the previous page, have individual paragraphs read to you...the opportunities are endless!
Please take advantage of this marvelous resource.
Quote of the Week
"I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win--if you don't, you won't."
-Bruce Jenner, Olympic Gold Medalist, Decathlon
