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Resources for parents and teachers

IXL

IXL provides a comprehensive math curriculum for schools, teachers, and families. It provides placement assessments, progress reporting, and individualized student guidance. This site is great for math instruction for families and teachers. Usually it would cost to become a member, but they are providing resources and instruction during school closures for free. They organize resources …

XtraMath

XtraMath is allows users to sign up for an account for free. Teachers may already have an account for students to log into, or parents and sign up for their child and monitor their progress. This supports students’ math facts fluency and supports the needs to practice remedial math skills. A really nice feature is …

Typing Club

This program is great to learn how to type! It has interactive lessons, engaging videos, and games that actually support the learning process. It’s free and does not require a school, class, or teacher to register them for the free access. I tried it out to see how the lessons were organized and taught, and …

Outschool

Outschool is a learning platform that provide teachers, students, and parents with a wide range of subjects to learn about, as well as live online classes for those subjects. It provides homeschooling families with the classes, resources, and teachers to meet their various needs. There are teachers for each subject, classes given during the week …

Scholastic

Scholastic is providing a ton of free reading resources for parents, students, and teachers during this time. They are trying to be a huge support for the “Learning At Home” experience. They have a letter for families that discusses Learning At Home and how they are trying to help.

Seesaw

Seesaw is a learning platform being used by grades K-12. It provides activities and lessons that are already setup for teachers and students. It provides sequential lessons, activities, journal entries, and skill mastery. It’s free for students through their teachers accounts, or for the basic account. You can upgrade your account for more resources and …

Scratch

Scratch is a coding language and site developed by researchers at MIT for students aged 8 to 16. Students can use Scratch to easily build their own games and stories and to share those with others. The site is totally free, lets students design and build their own games, has tons of tutorials, and lets …

Audible

Audible is Amazon’s audio book platform. All books are professionally narrated and listeners can choose the speed at which they listen. Normally, everyone needs to purchase books or take books out from the library to use Audible, but they have a special Covid-19 deal for students. While schools are closed, all students in the United …

Learning Upgrade

Learning Upgrade consists of Reading Upgrade, Comprehension Upgrade, and Math Upgrade. Both are sequential, educational video games. Reading Upgrade begins in level 1 with basic letter knowledge and by level 50 is having students work on complex passages. There are lessons on digraphs, blends, long vowels, and so on. There is also a Comprehension Upgrade …

Khan Academy

This is a fantastic learning platform that can be used for providing sequential courses across content areas. It is free to create an account and provides access to courses and resources from preschool to college level. Students can practice skills without an account, but will not be able to save their work without creating an …

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