Helpful Links for Students
ABC Ya - Practice math and reading skills all while playing fun games!
Fun Brain - Play games while practicing math and reading skills
Teach Monsters to Read - Play games learning letter names, sounds & sentences
Nat Geo for Kids - Learn all about geography and fascinating animals!
Highlights Kids - Read, play games and conduct cool science experiments for free!
Switcheroo Zoo - Watch and play games to learn all about amazing animals for free!
Idaho i-Ready Apps - Various free math and reading apps
School Success Ideas for Families
Grades: x
Ideas and questions to engage parents/students with their education. Distributed by Boise School District.
Grades: Infants-K
The Bookworm is a monthly publication of the My First Books program. This early literacy newsletter is sent home to the parents of children receiving My First Books each month, and contains age-appropriate literacy information and activities.
Reading Rocket
Grades: PreK-12
Reading Rockets is a national multimedia project that offers a wealth of research-based reading strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help young children learn how to read and read better. Our reading resources assist parents, teachers, and other educators in helping struggling readers build fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills.
Math & Critical Thinking
Grades: Pre-K-2
Master fluency in addition and subtraction skills by playing 11 different games. Math Fluency with Sports – provides realistic sports scores and asks you to determine the total and difference in scores or to add or subtract different sport times.
Grades: K-12
ChessKid teaches the game of chess with lessons and videos that cover topics including an introduction of each chess piece, opening offensive and defensive strategies, and common attacking patterns.
Grades: 3-8
This fun site offers older elementary and middle schooler students online math games and animations that will keep them engaged with action-packed graphics, witty storylines, and upbeat music.
Grades: K-4
This covers a broad range of math skills, from adding one-digit numbers to dividing double digits.
https://www.teachyourmonster.org/
Made with Code
Grades: 4-12
Google's Made with Code introduces students to the world of coding through resources including tutorials, videos, partner projects, and community connections.
Grades: 1-12
This free, downloadable application gives students a taste of programming as they combine graphics, photos, music, and sound to create simple, interactive animations and games.
Grades: PreK-12
Solve challenges by learning to code and creating patterns. Themed coding tutorials for beginners and coders.
Reading & Comprehension
EPIC Books
Grades: x
Online
Grades: Pre-K-2
This collection of videos, songs, and activities covers a lot of ground in a creative, highly accessible format.
Grades: PreK-2
Duolingo ABC was developed by a team of learning scientists, engineers, literacy specialists, illustrators, and parents who believe that kids who read will change the world.
Grades: K-12
This app allows students to browse and borrow ebooks and audiobooks from public libraries for free. Families can set the audience preference to juvenile or young adult to put some limits on the content kids can access.
Grades: 1-5
Based on the character from the Dot. TV show and book, Dotopedia is a collaboration app kids can use to read about everything from butterflies to grandparents, or to create articles of their own.
Grades: PreK-6
Read-Aloud Videos - Animated read-alouds features many lesson plans, activities, and printable materials.
Tumblebooks
Spanish Immersion
Peep Ciencias: Colores
Grades: Pre-K-2
Part of a series of free bilingual learning apps, Peep Ciencias: Colores engages young kids with animated videos about colors. Plus, grown-ups get guidance on how to explore key concepts with kids through questions, conversations, exploration, and activities.
Duolingo
Grades: 2-12
Learning with Duolingo is fun, and research shows that it works! With quick, bite-sized lessons, you’ll earn points and unlock new levels while gaining real-world communication skills.
Grades: x
Press the keys to hear each letter, see a picture of a word that starts with that letter and the word pronounced......Presione las teclas para escuchar cada letra, ver una foto de una palabra que empieza por esa letra y la palabra pronunciada.
Grades: x
Lists examples of how to pronounce the letters on their own and in both Spanish and English words......Muestra ejemplos de cómo pronunciar las letras por su cuenta y en palabras de Español e Inglés.
Grades: x
Flashcards and lists from a wide variety of groups of words (e.g., animals, places, foods, etc)......Relámpagos y las listas de una gran variedad de grupos de palabras (por ejemplo, animales, lugares, comidas, etc.)
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Grades: PreK-6
Music not only has the power to stimulate the mind, enrich the heart and soothe the soul; it can help children to think more creatively, develop craftsmanship and discipline and learn the value of excellence.
Grades: K-5
K5 Learning offers free worksheets, flashcards and inexpensive workbooks for kids in kindergarten to grade 5.
Grades: K-4
Have some of your favorite stories read to you by movie stars! Storyline Online is available 24 hours a day for children, parents, caregivers and educators worldwide. Each book includes supplemental curriculum developed by a credentialed elementary educator, aiming to strengthen comprehension and verbal and written skills for English-language learners.
Grades: x
Go “into the book” to play games that practice reading strategies. 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.