Educational Resources for Elementary Children

I am often asked by parents for resources to support their child's education.  I have gathered many sources in my years as a parent and teacher.  Both my children perform at grade level and were reading before entering kindergarten.


Star Fall  I highly recommend this website to help kids who struggle with phonics. 

Tumblebooks is a wonderful website to help struggling or independent readers.  Children can have the books read to them or they can choose to read them alone.  Books range from easy picture books to advanced works of literature. Free through the Orange Public Library 

 

Spelling City  You can make your own spelling lists or use ones created by other people.

Great interactive 100s charts (help with skip counting and multiplication) 

Touch Math taught both my kids how to add, subtract and multiply. Order the free training materials. 

Fun Brain- fun academic based games

123 Teach Me to learn Spanish  My children learned months, days of the week, colors, and numbers after only a few days of practice.

Typing practice fun games and exercises to practice this important skill

Academic Skill Builders

Our research-based and standards-aligned free educational math games and language arts games will engage, motivate, and help teach students.

 

Extra materials to support the Houghton Mifflin series 

 

Ticket to Read ($29.95 per child/year) Ticket to Read does cost money but the site takes children step-by-step through phonics and eventually moves to reading easy passages. A 14 day free trial is available. 

 

Study Island ($49-$59 per child/year) Study Island is recommended for children who struggle with more than one concept in school. The questions are CA content standards for 2^nd to 5^th grade. Programs are available for all grades K-12. 

 

Letter Factory DVD This fun DVD is great for the car. It teaches children that every letter has a sound.  The follow up DVD Word Factory teaches children how to put sounds together to make words.  Many libraries have this DVD available for check out. 

Hooked on Phonics I highly recommend the reading programs offered for K and 1^st grades. This program is expensive (about $200). Some libraries have this program available for check out. I do NOT recommend the Hooked on Math programs or the reading programs for 2^nd graders.