Sesame Street is working with communities to provide support for education for educators and families. They provide information, resources, and activities for a range of subjects and topics from reading and math to social emotional learning and traumatic experiences.
A learning online community for educators and families to create and share lessons and resources. Sign up is free to access 400,000 free resources, lesson plans, and professional development opportunities.
Twinkl provides curriculum, resources, material, activities, lessons and more for educators, students, and families. Resources from Twinkl can be used with google classroom or any other learning platform. Memberships for unlimited resources from Twinkl usually cost $5 per month. During school closures due to COVID-19 they are providing free memberships with access to 40,000 different …
Epic is a digital library for students with over 40,000 titles. As students read books, they earn badges and their reading progress is tracked. Students can also take quizzes on books and have some books read to them as the words are highlighted. Epic also has educational videos on books, authors, and other topics like …
MobyMax provides a complete curriculum along with assessments for educators and families. It is free to sign up for a teacher account. You can create classes, assess students, and track progress easily through MobyMax. The cost for a school license starts at $99, but is free during school closures due to COVID-19.
Nessy provides programs to help learners of all abilities to read, write, spell, and type. The programs are designed to support students who learn differently or have learning difficulties, such as dyslexia, that makes learning challenging. They provide free dyslexia tests, as well as research-based lessons, activities, and information for educators and families. Nessy is …
Lalilo is an online phonics and comprehension program that is totally free for parents and teachers during the Covid-19 school closures. Parents and teachers can track students progress. Each phonics, word recognition, and comprehension lesson is adaptive so students are always being challenged but not being frustrated. The site says that it is best for …
Read Naturally is a researched-based resource for school, teachers, and families to improve reading achievement. Read Naturally approach to reading improvement is through teacher modeling, repeated reading, and progress monitoring. Their strategy aims to improve fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary. It also allows students to take responsibility for monitoring their own progress. There are a few …
The National Science Teachers Association has science ebooks and activities for all grades that are free during school closures. Each book features pop up questions, review activities. The texts are engaging, science aligned, and provide strong explanations of content. The only shortcoming is that the books are slow to load so there is a time …
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) promotes high-quality classroom resources for grades pre-k-12. There are various resources that educators can access, such as classroom resources, professional development, and literature. Members have access to the most resources but non-members can benefit too! For example, in the classroom resources section, non-members have access to all …
