If the Internet is simply presented to elementary students in a superfluous manner, it will not become an integrated instructional tool. At the elementary level, interactive Internet resources have the most merit. These resources quickly grab students' attention, and quality sites will keep this attention. Especially effective is interactive literature. Some sites present stories, audio telling of these stories, and pictures related to the stories.
Some stories come alive for the students.
However, the use of Internet resources in education does not stop at the elementary level. Students at the secondary level can make use of the Internet's variety of communication possibilities, most notably e-mail. Another merit of Internet instruction in the classroom is the prevalence of educational multimedia sites. Often classroom-based instruction is skewed against girls and students of low socioeconomic class. A result of this is poor performance by members of these groups.