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Writing Tools - Graphic Organizers, Prompts, Rubrics, Samples Writing Pieces
Introduction to Writing Video Lessons - Writing Videos that introduce general writing skills for all grade levels
3rd-12th Grade Writing Video Lessons - Writing Video lessons that go in-depth into each unit for Grades 3-12
Quindew (3-12)
Fun & Free Reading Program - Build confidence and skills
Get kids excited about reading.
Practice comprehension reading skills
Diagnostic and summative reading assessments
Differentiate with adaptive reading lessons
Read science, social studies, and ELA texts
Essentials in Writing (1-12)
All Essentials in Writing courses include an instructional video and a textbook/workbook.
Essentials in Writing is a complete grammar and composition curriculum for students in grades 1-12.
Online only: $87/year, Print & Digital: $107/year
Reading Eggs makes the learning to read journey fun, interactive, and highly rewarding for ages 3-13 – and it’s based on solid scientific research.
Reading Eggs provides your child with an educationally sound and highly enjoyable learn to read program that is not only fun and effective, but also easy to integrate into your daily routine.
Millions of students all over the world use Handwriting Without Tears. Our easy-to-teach, easy-to-learn curriculum makes handwriting mastery joyful for students and their teachers.
Research supports the active teaching of handwriting. Recent findings demonstrate that writing by hand improves creative writing skills and fine motor skills. In fact, elementary students have been found to write more and faster by hand than when keyboarding.
And with the adoption of the Common Core State Standards, the emphasis and expectations placed on classroom note-taking and expository writing in grades K–5 is greater than ever.
Learning Ally is a national non-profit dedicated to helping students with print disabilities, including blindness, visual impairment and dyslexia. Learning Ally improves the way students learn at home and in the classroom.
The Story Weavers K-8 curriculum embraces the principles of connected learning and blends the most important academic skills with creative opportunities to dive deeper, explore beyond the surface level of knowledge, and ultimately fall in love with learning.
With IEW's nine structural models, teachers teach step-by-step: note making and outlines, writing from notes, retelling narrative stories, summarizing a reference, writing from pictures, summarizing multiple references, inventive writing, formal essay models, and a formal critique. Using IEW's stylistic techniques such as strong verbs, quality adjectives, and sentence openers, students incrementally move from basic to a variety of sentence structures, improved vocabulary, and more sophisticated writing. (3-12)
Spanning three key content areas — Reading, Writing, and Science — Raz Kids deliver resources designed to meet the unique needs of every Pre K-6 student. Our websites help you differentiate instruction, save teacher time, and empower students to succeed!
Wordly Wise 3000® 4th Edition provides direct academic vocabulary instruction to develop the critical link between vocabulary and reading comprehension. (K-12)
Daily Language Review provides 10- to 15-minute lessons to improve language skills and vocabulary knowledge. There are 36 weeks of daily practice activities that cover: grammar and usage, vocabulary, punctuation, and spelling. Daily Language Review is ideal for daily warm-up, quick informal assessments, and test prep. (TK-8)
Blackbird & Co's products have been developed to provide the support for you, and the intellectual scaffolding that will enable your students to move beyond mere reading and writing, toward reading for purpose and writing for real. With great literature as the springboard, every student can become an exceptional writer. Because every child deserves to communicate their ideas effectively. (K-12)
Learning A-Z provides a blended instruction approach using various resource platforms and tools. With an extensive collection of flexible curriculum resources aligned to research-based best practices, Learning A-Z helps educators maximize their core instruction, fill gaps, and personalize learning. Without limiting their creativity, innovation, or individuality, Learning A-Z helps educators provide the impactful instruction their students need to thrive (K-6)
Prodigy English makes A, B, C as fun as 1, 2, 3. Instead of answering questions to win math battles, every correct answer in the world of Prodigy English gives students more energy! Players can use their energy to gather resources from all around them, craft items, earn coins, and create their own ideal world. As they explore, they'll encounter new characters and build foundational reading and writing skills. (Grades 1-5)
Quill provides free online tools to help low-income students become sharp writers. Quill's mission is to help the 30 million low-income K-12 students in the United States who struggle with writing.
The Story Starter randomly generates 356,300,262,144 story starters. This idea generator can be used for short stories, novels, plays, movie scripts, or just for fun. It has been used by writers of all ages and teachers have used it in classrooms around the world.
Do you have a reluctant writer? Or a precocious one? Brave Writer fits every situation. We'll help you become an effective writing coach while nurturing your children's creative impulses. Our products include home study courses, language arts programs, lifestyle tools, plus online classes. (K-12)
Scholastic produces educational materials to assist and inspire students to cultivate their minds to utmost capacity; to become familiar with our cultural heritage; to strive for excellence in creative expression in all fields of learning, literature, and art; to seek effective ways to live a satisfying life; to enlarge students' concern for and understanding of today's world; to help build a society free of prejudice and hate, and dedicated to the highest quality of life in community and nation.
Scholastic strives to present the clearest explanation of current affairs and contemporary thought, and to encourage literary appreciation and expression consistent with the understanding and interests of young people at all levels of learning.
Reading Bear, a project of WatchKnowLearn.org, is the first free program online to teach beginning readers vocabulary and concepts while systematically introducing all the main phonetic patterns of written English, all using innovative rich media.
Read Live Read Naturally - This cloud-based intervention efficiently applies the research-based Read Naturally Strategy to accelerate reading achievement. Visual and auditory prompts guide students through the motivating steps to develop fluency and phonics skills, support comprehension, and improve vocabulary. Track student progress easily and use the data to differentiate instruction with Read Naturally Live. Because the software and data are "in the cloud," there's no server to set up or maintain. Students can access the program from desktop computers, laptops, Chromebooks, or iPads.
Starfall Education Foundation is a publicly supported charity, 501(c)(3). We create free and low-cost experiences whereby children can successfully learn through exploration.
On the Starfall website and in Starfall classrooms, children have fun while learning in an environment of collaboration, wonderment, and play. We teach through positive reinforcement to ensure children become confident, intrinsically motivated, and successful.
Inspiring the next generation to develop a love of reading and learning. Epic! was born out of a single question: How do we make books more accessible to kids? As parents, it always seemed strange to us that our kids could so easily play games and watch videos on their iPhones and iPads, but the same couldn’t be said for books. So in 2013, we decided to build the first “epic” reading experience, designed just for kids. Today, Epic! has grown into an award-winning subscription service, which gives millions of families and classrooms instant, unlimited access to thousands of books, videos and quizzes from leading publishers to help kids everywhere read, learn and grow. (TK-6)
Explode The Code®
Break through the code with online, data-driven phonics instructionOnline Features individualized instruction and reinforcement based on continuous assessment research-based instruction supported by auditory and visual cues to promote independent learning robust reporting features that provide ongoing progress monitoring engage students and provides online delivery available across school, home and extended day services—no installation required.
Phonics curriculum spanning grades K through 4 in one comprehensive program, effective for grade-level and intervention instruction.
Nessy has been making fun, educational software for children since 1999 and has developed a reputation for exceptional quality. Nessy offers the complete dyslexia aware solution with a suite of multisensory products aimed at making learning to read, write and spell fun. Nessy believes that if children have fun then learning becomes more memorable. Where children play games the increased level of engagement leads to dramatic improvements.
If a child does not learn the way we teach, we should teach the way they learn. These mind training games are different from EVERYTHING you have ever tried because they focus on your student's TALENTS, not their weaknesses!
Dyslexia Games is a series of workbooks packed with learning activities that empower your student's brain with new abilities and new brain connections for literacy. Even older children, teens and adults who have been struggling for a long time can quickly build the mental skills needed to succeed in reading, writing and spelling!
The games are so intuitive that student will rarely need help from parents or teachers! This makes your job easy! Just use the books in order, and watch your student thrive! Before long he will be able to move on to normal schoolwork without the mental confusion caused by Dyslexia.
With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations — and share your creations with others in the online community.
Scratch helps young people learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively — essential skills for life in the 21st century.
Scratch is a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. It is provided free of charge.
The Spaghetti Book Club website is a place for kids who love to read and talk about books! It is the largest site of book reviews written and illustrated by kids for kids. The Spaghetti Book Club was created as a way to support and encourage kids' love for reading by giving them an opportunity to connect, on a personal level, with the books they are reading and then share their reactions, thoughts, and opinions with family members, friends, and kids around the world.
Books About Kindness
Why It’s So Important to Read Children’s Books About Kindness
When we read children’s books about being kind and talk to our kids about the stories, this is what happens:
We deliver the message that kindness is important,
We give our kids a chance to practice flexing their kindness muscle, and
We give them an opportunity to put themselves in someone else’s shoes.
In other words, reading books about kindness takes care of every one of those three essentials for raising kind kids.
Reading to children has been repeatedly shown to improve their reading, writing and communication skills, logical thinking, concentration and general academic aptitude… as well as inspire a love of reading.
The SAG-AFTRA Foundation records well-known actors reading children’s books and makes graphically dynamic videos so that children around the world can be read to with just the click of a Storyline Online video book image.
All About Reading is a scripted, open-and-go program developed for busy parents, teachers, and tutors who want to teach reading in the most effective way possible. This program doesn’t require long periods of study, you don’t have to develop your own lesson plans, and you don’t have to stress over what to teach next—because everything is laid out for you, step by step. You’ll get solid grounding in how to teach reading without being overwhelmed.
VocabularySpellingCity.com is dedicated to helping students, teachers, parent-teachers, and school systems. VocabularySpellingCity is an award-winning site with ongoing introduction of new features, many based on input from existing users. Our mission: efficient game-based study of literacy skills using any word list.
At Grammar Bytes find detailed definitions of common grammar terms—everything from abstract nouns to verbs!
Test your grammar knowledge here. Fun interactive exercises await!
Download the handouts that accompany the interactive exercises.
Daily Grammar is a fun, convenient way to learn grammar. By simplifying complex grammar subjects, Daily Grammar is a great teaching tool for both public and home-schooled children, ESL students, and anyone needing to refresh English grammar skills. By practicing language rules, any person able to read will be able to master English grammar.
Beautiful Feet Books was created to bring history to life for homeschoolers through rich, story-based learning. Inspired by Charlotte Mason’s philosophy, Beautiful Feet Books offers literature-driven curriculum, teacher guides, and curated book packs that make subjects like history, science, and literature engaging and meaningful. Still family-owned, their mission is to support parents in creating joyful, thoughtful learning experiences without busywork.
Epals is a modern version of pen pal writing. Your student can write to students around the world, or right here in the U.S.
Please make sure to read the Terms of Use, and epals encourages parents and, as applicable, teachers to spend time online with children and to appropriately monitor their online activities. Please protect your child’s privacy by instructing them to never provide personal information on this site or any other, or within any software registration process, without your permission.
Set the stage for reading success with this delightfully interactive educational app. Kids will have a blast learning their ABC's and building vocabulary with the adorable monsters in Endless Alphabet. Each word features an interactive puzzle with talking letters and a short animation illustrating the definition. Before you know it, your child will be using words like gargantuan and cooperate!
Teach a child letter sounds with Bob Books Set 1! With four letters in the first story, children can read a whole book. Consistent new sounds are added gradually, until young readers have read books with all letters of the alphabet (except Q). Short vowels and three-letter words in simple sentences make Bob Books Set 1 a fun confidence builder. With little books, come big success
The Dolch Sight Words list is the most commonly used set of sight words. Educator Dr. Edward William Dolch developed the list in the 1930s-40s by studying the most frequently occurring words in children’s books of that era. The list contains 220 “service words” plus 95 high-frequency nouns. These words comprise 80% of the words you would find in a typical children’s book and 50% of the words found in writing for adults. Once a child knows this list of words, it makes reading much easier, because the child can then focus his or her attention on the remaining words.
The Dolch words are commonly divided into groups by grade level, ranging from pre-kindergarten to third grade, with a separate list of nouns. There are a total of 315 Dolch Sight Words.
McGruffy Press has teachable curriculum with no background in education required.
Provide a young child the building blocks needed to start education off on the right foot and wonderful things happen. As the light bulbs go off and confidence grows, a passion for learning develops that will last a lifetime. At McRuffy Press, it is our mission to help traditional classrooms, home school programs and parents ensure children get the foundation they need to succeed. Our phonics activities, math learning tools and reading materials are all designed to unlock a love of learning that will last.
K12 Reader provides FREE worksheets for handwriting. The handwriting worksheets below include practice letters on ruled lines in the D’Nealian style.
Barton Reading & Spelling System is a great tutoring system for children, teenagers, or adults who struggle with spelling, reading, and writing due to dyslexia or a learning disability.
The lessons on Breaking News English are free. There are 7 levels, from elementary to advanced. Lessons have up to 26 pages of printable activities / handouts, and there is a new lesson every two days. All lessons are based on stories currently in the news - as the world's news breaks, teach it. All lessons are also in downloadable PDF format, and there are 30+ online quizzes for each lesson. Listening files in British and North American English can be downloaded in mp3 format or subscribed to via a podcast. Classroom handouts are readily reproducible, and there are graded listenings with each lesson.
The goal of everything we do at the Logic of English is to enable all people to read proficiently - no matter their age, nationality, learning style, educational history, or socio-economic background. In addition to training and other resources, The Logic of English creates a variety of products to aid students and teachers.
Logic of English curriculum is designed to teach reading, writing, spelling, phonics, and grammar to students of all ages in a logical, systematic, and approachable way. Accessible and easy-to-follow materials enable teachers to learn alongside their students.
Spelling Workout has all the components you need to lead students from simple sound-letter relationships to more complex spelling patterns.
Students learn spelling skills based on phonics through unique, cross-curricular reading passages, practice, and high-interest writing activities. Packed with flexible lessons, motivating activites, including fun riddles and puzzles, this dynamic program leads students to spelling success! (TK-5)
Reading Comprehension Instruction that Works
The nonprofit ReadWorks partners with K-12 teachers across the country to solve our nation’s literacy crisis.
ReadWorks does this by bridging the gap between research and practice in reading comprehension instruction. We leverage cognitive-science research to create high-impact instructional materials and tools that are designed for immediate use within the practical realities of current U.S. classrooms. As a result, over 1 million teachers and 13 million students are using ReadWorks to improve teaching and learning in their classrooms today.
Flyleaf Publishing (TK-3)
Flyleaf Publishing offers an Online Materials Portal for students.
Help your student click on any book cover to begin reading. Each book has a homework activity attached to it. Currently, this is free!
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