How to search

The better your search, the better the results you will get. If you try searching for something like Level 2, you will get way too much stuff. How can you find only what you really want? Use logic, specifically, boolean logic.

This logic isn’t hard, and once you learn it, it will help you to use sites like Yahoo and Google much better.

For the basics, you just need to know 3 things: +, -, and ” “. Those will do the job.

• + makes a word in the search mandatory
• - means the result cannot have that word
• “some words” means the result must have the exact phrase some words in it.

If you type reading writing in the search box, you will get anything with reading or writing in it. That’s not very helpful.

If you type +reading +writing in the search box, you will get anything with both reading and writing in it. That’s more useful.

If you type +reading -writing in the search box, you will get everything with reading and not writing in it. That’s more specific.

Try +”Level 3″ +reading to get all the Level 3 reading activities, but nothing from Levels 1 or 2.