
There is so much out there on the web to help kids learn. But it’s so hard to find! At EdAlive Top Sites you’ll find over 500 educational web sites designed expressly for, or useful to you in your quest for great resources.
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A Book In Time
One-stop hands-on history sourceRead & craft your way through history with A Book In Time. It’s a one-stop, hands-on history source. The site includes reading suggestions, crafts, projects, games, timelines, and maps-all kinds of extracurricular resources to enrich history in your homeschool. Items on the site are low cost or free, and everything is arranged in chronological order in American and World History categories.
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Book Adventure
A fun, free way to motivate each child to readFree reading motivational program for kids K-8. Over 7,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice tests and win points. Book Adventure is a fun, free way to motivate your child to read! Kids in grades K-8 can search for books, read them off line, come back to quiz on what they’ve read and earn prizes for their reading success.
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Education Creations
Wide ranging material for use in your classroomA wide range of educational materials of which much is free. Topics include, Common Core Materials, Morning Math, Daily Language, Daily Writing, Reading Booklets, Reading Comprehension, Phonics, Teacher Helpers, Awards, Games & Activities, Individual skills in all subjects and more.
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Essential Skills Advantage
Proven online learning programmes for kidsA free reading & language program for children in K-6 (ages 3-12). The program supports children with different learning styles and abilities, including those with special needs. Units include sight words, phonics, spelling, grammar, vocabulary, reading comprehension and more.
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Funbrain Reading
Online learing for kidsOffers more than 100 fun, interactive games that develop skills in math, reading, and literacy. Kids can read a variety of popular books and comics on the site, including Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Amelia Writes Again, and Brewster Rocket. Teachers and librarians can confidently encourage students to use Funbrain during their free time in class, assured that kids will enjoy an educational, safe online learning experience.
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Nessy Learning
Everything you need to help children with dyslexia and reading problemsA site geared specifically towards students with Dyslexia and struggling readers. The site offers a structured, multi-sensory reading and spelling program (Nessy Reading). There is a ‘Free Play’ area where anyone can try out the program without registering.
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Newsela
Great source of news for use in the classroomAn innovative way for students to build reading comprehension with nonfiction that’s always relevant: daily news. It’s easy and amazing. Free non fiction texts that are lexiled and can be adjusted to three levels of difficulty within the article. Anchor standards and quizzes support the piece.
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Read Naturally, Inc.
Intervention strategies and materials for struggling readersProvides supplemental research based reading intervention strategies and materials for struggling readers of all ages. Combines the methodologies of teacher modelling, repeated reading and progress monitoring. Has programs for reading assessment, phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, and for ELL students. Offers various sample lessons, best practices, and other resources for teaching reading.
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Reading A-Z
Introduce children to reading and encourage them to writeEngaging ways to introduce children to reading or to encourage them to write. Provides age-appropriate book suggestions and rainy day activities. The site is fun, educational, and easy to use outside of school. Published by the International Reading Association.
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Reading Kingdom
Teaches decoding, spelling and comprehensionAn online reading and writing program for children 4-10 (K-3) that uses a six skill model of reading instruction to teach decoding, spelling and comprehension.
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Reading Like an Historian
Charting the future by teaching the pastBuilds critical thinking skills and teaches students how to analyze historical documents through its high-quality lesson plans. Covers US and World history. The Reading Like a Historian curriculum engages students in historical inquiry. Each lesson revolves around a central historical question and features sets of primary documents designed for groups of students with diverse reading skills and abilities.
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ZipTales
Love reading with this great resourceZiptales is an online literacy “library” designed for school and home use. Ziptales has been a leader in the field of online literacy for more than 12 years. It is based on the latest research about how children develop and sustain a love of reading. The Ziptales “library” was built by trained teachers with the express purpose of making reading a pleasurable and lifelong experience.
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ZooWhiz
Adaptive learning for kids aged 5 - 15The Online Learning System that Automatically Adapts for Each Child. Over 17,000 activities for children aged 4-15 covering Mathematics, Reading, Word Skills. The powerful, automated Adaptive Learning System progresses each child ever upward at their optimal rate. The activities are sequenced into finely graded progressions allowing for precise levelling. One-to-one correlation against UK, US, Australian and NZ curricula
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