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If you are a parent or caregivers are seeking ways to support your children's learning outside of the classroom, you're in the right place! Below you will find some wonderful, free online resources that can help children continue to build critical literacy skills while schools are closed. Explore this page to find fun games and activities to support literacy, math, science, and more!
Literacy
Literacy
Storyline Online
This free children‘s literacy resource features some of the world’s best storytellers reading books out loud. Each video includes an activity guide with lessons for K-5 students to do at home.
The Indianapolis Public Library
This is a great way to enjoy stories together from anywhere, even without a trip to the book store or the library.
ReadWriteThink
The National Council of Teachers of English has an entire tab devoted to literacy resources for parents and afterschool professionals. You will find grade-specific literacy games and tools, activities and projects, tips, podcasts, and downloadable resources for no charge!
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets is a multimedia project that offers a wealth of research-based reading strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help children from birth to age 8 learn how to read and improve their reading. Their resources are for parents, teachers, and after school professionals. Download free reading tips for parents and early literacy professionals, by age and stage, in English and translated into 12 other languages.
Storynory
With more than 600 audio stories, Storynory provides a broad range of original titles, fairy tales, myths, educational stories, poems, world stories, and classic authors. Children listen as they read along with the expressive storytellers. The stories also available via podcast.
PBS Kids Read Along
Every week, celebrities and PBS KIDS authors are reading aloud their favorite books on the PBS KIDS' Facebook page and YouTube channel. Watch them all again here and find fun activities for the whole family to do!
PBS Parents: Games
Educational games for just about any topic. Here you will find games to support math, science, literacy, social emotional health, curiosities, and so much more!
Oxford Owl
OxfordOWL offers more than 100 free e-books that range from simple level-reader stories to more complex titles and layouts. Each book is prefaced with guidance for teachers and parents, explaining the reading skills emphasized in the story. The book ends with more guidance for discussion and reading comprehension questions. Free registration is required to access the e-books.
Math
Math
Kahn Academy
Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. We tackle math, science, computer programming, history, art history, economics, and more.
Bedtime Math
This site makes math part of the family routine. Parents can sign up by email, on the website, and on a free app. Whether it’s flamingos, ninjas, or pillow forts, kids can see the math in their favorite topics. No logins. No drilling. No scores. It takes only five minutes a day, and kids clamor for it.
PBS Parents: Learn
Games that support parents of 3-8 year olds to help their child(ren) boost their literacy, math, and science knowledge. Scroll to the bottom of the PBS Parents’ Page to select age-specific activities, games, and videos for children aged 2-8.
A+ Math
Interactive math resources for teachers, parents, and students featuring free math worksheets, math games, math flashcards, and more.
Science & Social Studies
Science & Social Studies
National Geographic: Learn at Home
Keep brains engaged with National Geographic’s approved science experiments, fun quizzes, animal and music videos, and study guides.
iCivics
This site is loaded with fun, interactive games devoted to learning about civics-related topics. Those topics include citizenship & participation, separation of power, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, the Judicial Branch, the Executive Branch, the Legislative Branch, and budgeting. Each game has a specific learning objective in which it is built around, but users will love the interactive storylines within each game. The site is probably best suited for middle school-aged students and up.
PBS for Parents: Science
Games that support parents of 3-8 year olds to help their child(ren) boost their literacy, math, and science knowledge. Scroll to the bottom of the PBS Parents’ Page to select age-specific activities, games, and videos for children aged 2-8.
Digital History
This site has it all and includes online textbook, interactive learning modules, timelines, flash movies, virtual exhibits, etc. This site is dedicated to using technology to enhance learning and is the perfect compliment to extend learning for students. This site would be beneficial for students in 3rd grade and up.
Art, Culture, and More
Art, Culture, and More
The Smithsoanian Learning Lab
Families have access to millions of curated digital resources from across the Smithsonian’s museums, research centers, libraries, archives, and more.
Sing With Our Kids
Singing with a child connects neural pathways and increases the ability to retain information. This site provides free, fun resources for music and reading.
Apps for Students with Special Needs
The coronavirus creates a unique challenge for students with special needs—educators share recommendations for apps to support learning at home.
Codex: The Lost World of Atlantis (APP)
This gamified app is grounded in learning science and geared towards family learning. Players visit new locations around the world, where they find artifacts and relics that they use to decode the cryptic language of Atlantean into English. This award-winning app is available in both English and Spanish, and has been used in family literacy programs by parents and children together.
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