Helpful Links
This page is designed for the DIYers out there who desire resources they can work with on their own. Every site is FREE. Please communicate with me if you find broken links or any that charge you. I like to keep this page up-to-date. Thanks in advance.
WRITING:
Graphic Organizers for Writing
BEST Custom Handwriting worksheet maker, printing and cursive
CursiveHandwriting (excellent practice worksheets for each letter Upper and Lower case)
Daily Handwriting Practice book (pdf)
Guide to Grammar & Writing — Lots of good instruction/ppts/resources for teaching grammar and writing
Kindergarten (downloadable PDF)
Grade One Printing (downloadable PDF)
Fluent Printing (downloadable PDF)
Directed Cursive (downloadable PDF)
Advanced Cursive (downloadable PDF)
Elements of Good Writing:
Writing a Good Essay (many links to specific types of essays, and tips to how to make them great)
Graphic Organizers for Writing
The Analytical Essay (How-To)
The Argumentative Essay (How To)
READING:
Fluency Passages (159 passages, Levels F-Z)
Reading Rockets (free kids books)
K12Reader (comprehensive Reading, Spelling, Vocabulary, Grammar, and Composition)
Various Reading Skills (printable worksheets for Main Idea, Comprehension, Character, Setting, Plot, etc.)
READING ASSESSMENT SITES:
Quick Screen Reading Grade Level Tests
K12 Placement Tests from age 5-12; these are downloadable
Literacy Assessments from Pre-K – Grade 12
Multiple Assessments here, Reading Levels, Grade Levels, Teaching Reading, etc. SUPER SITE
Benchmark Passages and Running Records
Informal Reading Assessments: Phonological Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary, Text Comprehension (this is a PDF download)
Instructional Placement Instruments
READING VIDEOS:
READING (MATH):
GREAT YouTube Math help here:
- Nancy Pi
- YourMathGal
- YAY Math YAY Math Website
- NumberRock
- NumbaLumba (math skills set to music) MUST SEE THIS ONE!
- Elementary Math YouTube channels (gathered by CUBEforTeachers)
- McCarthy Math Academy
- MathAntics
Basic Math & Pre-Algebra for Dummies (TEXTBOOK online)
Algebra I Essentials for Dummies (TEXTBOOK online)
Algebra II for Dummies (TEXTBOOK online)
FOX MATH – Videos, worksheets, games, LOTS to do here on many levels. PreK-7th grade
PURPLE MATH – Pre Algebra, Algebra, Intermediate Algebra, and Advanced, beginnings of Trig
KHAN ACADEMY – Kindergarten through HS
FREE MATHHELP.COM – Algebra, Geometry, Trig, and Calculus
JOHNNIE MATH PAGE (easy to sort through grade level games or by concept)
MATH DRILLS (from addition facts through equivalent fractions, etc. give this one a look)
MATH ANTICS (Arithmetic, Fractions, Geometry, Percents, Algebra basics)
MATH TIPS AND TRICKS (For younger learners)
- JR Math, Grades 6-8
- Pre-Algebra TEXT Online (pdf) Angela Milano, 3rd Edition
- PreAlgebra ALGEBRA2GO
- PreAlgebra (Online Book, chapter-by-chapter, pdf)
- Prealgebra: A Practical Step by Step Approach (Online Textbook, pdf)
- Algebra 1
- Algebra 1 YAY Math
- Algebra Tiles Workbook (pdf)
- Algebra Tiles Workbook by MathGains (pdf)
- Beginning and Intermediate Algebra (Online Text/Answers)
- Beginning Algebra ALGEBRA2GO
- Intermediate Algebra ALGEBRA2GO
- Trigonometry YAY Math
- Trigonometric Functions YAY Math
- Statistics YAY Math
- Calculus Workbook for Dummies (pdf)
- Calculus Essentials for Dummies (pdf)
- Calculus 1 ALGEBRA2GO
- Calculus 2 ALGEBRA2GO
- Calculus 2 for Dummies (Online Book, pdf)
MONEY: Make your own money worksheets
TenMarks – Math and Writing concepts on YouTube
TELLING TIME: Make your own telling time worksheets
Flocabulary – Modern Schoolhouse Rock
**RESEARCH REMINDER: if at all possible, AVOID Wikipedia and the like. Many of those pages include opinion and false information, NOT facts! I’m not saying that ALL pages are non-factual, just that falsehoods get combined with facts. Use multiple sources and be sure to back up everything you find.
Phonics Reading:
PROGRESSIVEPHONICS
THIS READING MAMA – Many FREE and exciting Reading activities
Sight Words PowerPoints (Pre-Primer – 3rd Grade)
COLOR Printable Sight Word Flash Cards (Pre-Primer – 3rd Grade)
B/W Printable Sight Word Flash Cards (Pre-Primer-3rd Grade)
Preschool
Alphabet Recognition and Practice
Number Writing (and word)
SCISSOR SKILLS – a packet (pdf) that is progressive in improving and advancing use of scissors
Starfall – Some of this is free, more is accessible for a yearly fee. GREAT site!
EverythingPreschool – Pretty much everything for early childhood education.
HealthyFamily – FREE Educational Games from Toddlers through adult.
ChildCareLounge – 100 Top Preschool Sites
Alphabet Tracing Worksheets A-Z (26 pages, Upper and Lower case)
Alphabet/Picture flash cards (no words, just Upper and Lower case letter with a picture)
Kindergarten:
Harry Kindergarten Music Videos
1st Grade Resources:
MATH:
2nd Grade Resources:
MATH:
3rd Grade Resources:
MATH:
MATH:
4h Grade Resources:
READING:
Printable Worksheets (across multiple skills such as genre, figurative language, point of view, etc.)
Reading Worksheets (across many 4th grade reading skills)
5th Grade Resources:
READING:
Printable Worksheets/Tests (multiple skills)