FREE RESOURCES For Online Learning
Please add resources that you have personally vetted and that you believe to be valuable. In the notes column write any notes about specific grade levels or ideas if that is relevant and indicate if you think we should be listing this resource on our school website.
ELA--Reading and Writing | |||
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Learning A-Z Raz Kids and Headsprouts | Available free for all families through the end of the year | Used in the past Students love it - reads aloud, and has follow up questions I believe Randi has set up classes with student accounts - Highly recommend RAZ Kids for K-2 | Y |
Scholastic https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome.html Included in the Specials Cover Sheet for Parents: https://tinyurl.com/WOSScholasticPreKK | 20 days of Lesson Plans specific to Grade level In this can include: Bookflix Trueflix Watch & Learn Library | Amazing resource | Y |
Character Scrapbook | Choose the book character you would like to describe - and create a scrapbook about that character; from physical characteristics to 10 things that you know about that character - able to print after completed | Fun remote ‘center’ or check-in about a character Some typing skills / adult assistance | Y |
Storyline Online | Developed by The Screen Actors Guild Foundation, Storyline Online features accomplished actors and actresses reading some of their favorite children’s books. Each story comes with a free Activity Guide and can be viewed on YouTube or SchoolTube. | Listen to a read aloud - lots of popular books | Y |
Robert Munsch Online | Audio files of Robert Munsch reading/storytelling 30+ of his often funny and silly stories | Y | |
ABC Ya! | Children can listen to short stories read aloud to them as they follow along with the highlighted text. ABCya! has a variety of educational games in addition to the featured stories. Free resources and materials are available for grades K through 5. | Is available online and as an app. Without a subscription, the app only provides 6 games per week, free of charge. All games are available on the website. | Y |
Free Children’s Stories | Founded in 2008, freechildrenstories.com operates on the simple principle that children’s development is paramount. Our mission is to offer traditional, meaningful storytelling to every child, parent, or teacher around the globe with access to the internet, for free. | ||
Storynory | Storynory features a collection of original, fairytale, and classic children’s audio stories. Students can follow along with the story as it is read to them, as the text is also included on the site. There are also some great features available that give you the option of downloading the audio to your computer, listening to “catch phrase” explanations, translating text into different languages (especially helpful for your ELL students!), and more. | ||
National Geographic Young Explorers | National Geographic Young Explorers is a magazine designed specifically for kindergarten and first grade students. Children can listen to the magazine being read to them as they follow along with the highlighted text. It is a great way to bring interesting non-fiction stories into reading center time. | ||
Reading Rockets | Resources to help struggling readers build phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills. Online course on teaching reading, classroom strategies, in-classroom video, parent reading tips, interviews with children's book authors, recommended children's books, and more.’ | ||
Into the Book | Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for elementary students and teachers. We focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing.’ | ||
Magic Blox | With a large and growing collection of eBooks for kids 1 to 13 years old, your children get to enjoy new books all the time from award winning authors and publishers from around the world. In addition to titles you are familiar with from traditional publishers, they also have the opportunity to discover new stories from authors they've never heard of, or try out new languages they've never seen.’ | ||
Read Write Think | A whole host of literacy resources and activities which are searchable by grade level, resource, learning objective and more! | ||
Writing: Storyboard That | Great site that is now free for access until April 15th Students can create their own digital storyboard, design and tell a story. | Can insert activity into Google Classroom | Y |
Make Belief Comix | Students can summarize what they read with the use of a comic | Students did this in Library over the years - fun activity to promote creativity | Y |
Word Work / Phonics | |||
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Spelling City | Various games to go with word list Can give a spelling test / read the words aloud | As a 2nd grade teacher, I used with all of the Fundations word lists. if you think it would be helpful, I can make a TC Phonics one | Y |
Starfall | A website full of reading and phonics activities. A favorite of young children. | N | |
Lalilo | Website for phonics pK - 2 Seems to have a lot of activities - and can set up a class, similar to RAZ Kids or Dreambox | Interactive way to build on phonics rules | N |
Fluency & Fitness | Free for 21 days Seems like it is all about exercising brains and bodies! Math facts, Phonics skills | Movement & Activities | N |
This Reading Mama | There are great resources for phonics, spelling, comprehension and struggling readers. If you give your email you get some free resources for the students as well. She provides a lot of printables that parents can print at home. | I just looked through the blog and it really has great resources for parents who want to use some hands on activities at home. | N |
ABC Mouse | FREE HOME ACCESS TO ABC MOUSE! Redeem code AOFLUNICEF (or you could continue trying SCHOOL7771) for FREE access to ABCmouse.com Early Learning Academy, Adventure Academy, and ReadingIQ during the period of school closure! https://www.abcmouse.com/Redeem for Early Learning Academy (for children Preschool Through 2nd Grade) | Have not used personally, but great interactive activities | |
Math | |||
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Arcademics | Boost student engagement & fact fluency with our free multiplayer educational games, math games, language arts games, and more! | ||
Common Core Worksheets - for Math printables | This is great for various differentiated worksheets; good for kids to have different problems on one specific skill | Printables - Quick to download and then upload to your google classroom for kids to print at home | N |
IXL | IXL is personalized learning. With a comprehensive K-12 curriculum, individualized guidance, and real-time analytics, IXL meets the unique needs of each learner. | Awesome resource Offering a free 90 day trial (for the rest of the year). Specific skill building on what kid knows (similar to how STAR assesses) | Y |
Math Playground | Hundreds of games, logic puzzles, and brain building activities Free / Premium are now free of charge | Kids enjoy learning Math through this website | Y |
K-5 Math Teaching Resources | On this website you’ll find mathematics teaching resources to support standards-aligned math instruction, as well as information about our research-based professional development and customizable consulting services. | Shannon shared this a while back Great Math Center activities Some hands on, Some logic puzzle type problems! | N |
Social Studies | |||
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Mr. Nussbaum - USA: https://mrnussbaum.com/usa Geography: https://mrnussbaum.com/geography @2nd grade: Continents & Oceans: https://mrnussbaum.com/continents-and-oceans-online-game | These sites by Mr. Nussbaum are great for staff to have an interactive activity to follow up to a read aloud or article Free - advertises a discounted charge, but only for no ads | Ton of topics offered | N |
Science | |||
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Link for Virtual Field Trips! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SvIdgTx9djKO6SjyvPDsoGlkgE3iExmi3qh2KRRku_w/preview# | Over 30 Virtual Field Trips with Links | Y- maybe this is it’s own page!! | |
Enrichment/Arts/Physical Ed | |||
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Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems https://www.kennedy-center.org/mowillems | Each weekday Mo Willems leads a fun art/writing related activity with kids! Free! | This is great for any age! | N |
Oliver Jeffers reading 2 pm EST on Instagram | Oliver Jeffers reading one of his books every weekday and talking about some of the things that went into making it | ||
GoNoodle | |||
PE Online Learning https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_ph3YQchYCwDb_eGLzOCIy0BrMbQ4T1r | |||
Start with a Book https://www.startwithabook.org | A Database where you find a topic and then titles (books available to purchase), hands-on activities, and other links involving that topic | N | |
Art for Kids Hub | This is very popular and fun! Great for any age! View and follow the guided drawing tutorials provided by Rob and his family from Art for Kids Hub. | Great practice for drawing skills, and following step-by-step directions. | N |
ENL | |||
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The Spanish Experiment | Well-known children's stories translated into Spanish and spoken by a native Spanish speaker. Great for kids... and adults too! Read along in Spanish or English. | ||