• Click HERE to go  to 2-9th Grade vocabulary  and comprehension 

High-impact instruction that builds better readers. Over 4500 passages to choose from so you can help assist other learning areas. Split into topic, grade or lexile. Question sets, vocabulary and Articles of the day (10 minutes), Paired text with questions comparing the two, Step reads to help the student who is finding the text harder break down the text, ebooks and lessons and units based on books K-12.

• Parent resources K-12

• Teacher's guide  K-12

• Click HERE  to go to the main page

• Click HERE to learn about phonics

• Click HERE  to learn about reading comprehension.

• Click HERE to find out your child's level. 

Starfall's founder Stephen Schutz struggled to read as a child.  As an adult he was naturally motivated to create a resource to help children like himself. He created an online environment "Where Children Have Fun Learning to Read™." The website is offered to the public completely free. Bright colors and fun games will keep your child engaged.

• Click HERE for Pre-K and Kinders

• Click HERE for Grades 1-3 (6-10 years)

At the Harry Potter At Home hub you’ll find all the latest magical treats to keep your child  occupied - including special contributions from Bloomsbury and Scholastic, nifty magical craft videos , fun articles, quizzes, puzzles and plenty more for first-time readers, as well as those already familiar with the wizarding world. Also videos of the chapters being read by loved names of global entertainment, music and sport lending their voices to reading the first Harry Potter book. They are casting a Banishing Charm on boredom!

Click HERE  to go

The game takes children on a magical journey, meeting colorful characters along the way and collecting fantastic rewards. When children are engaged, they’re motivated to learn.

As they progress, they rehearse a range of essential reading skills; matching letters to sounds, blending, segmenting, tricky words and reading full sentences.

• Click HERE to go. 

Although not foolproof by any means this test came from the San Diego School district. They advise starting two grades below your child's grade (Note this is just a starting baseline, the words are out of context and your teachers can assess your child's reading ability to a much higher accuracy.)

• Click HERE  to download.

Your child's teacher needs to initiate an account which will open up 40,000 books. It is easy and free during Covid contact your child's teacher to start.

• Click HERE  to find out how your teacher can enroll

• Click HERE  to go to the site.

All plays explained in many ways to engage the new Shakespeare reader and old. 

• Interviews with characters

• Performances of key themes

• Animated videos

• Pop up notes

• Study guides

Reading Hack - Put subtitles on when you watch television or YouTube - your child can still enjoy the show but there is a connection between words and meaning.

Free downloadables and resources for K-12 to increase reading skills. 

Welcome to K12reader's FREE printable worksheets and articles! Learn about Personification or how a Metaphor is used, and about grammar concepts like common nouns, predicates, transition words, and the prepositional phrase. Print worksheets on almost any reading and writing topic like noun worksheets, kindergarten worksheets , 1st grade spelling words, and even cursive letters!

Check out these resources from Sightwords.com 

Lists - for all grades

Lessons - How to teach and how to correct a word.

Flash cards - use there's or generate your own

Games - generate your own words or use your own for a twist on old favorites.

Explore the world of children's literature, with in depth interviews with authors and illustrators.  On this website you will find book trailers, how to draw videos and other literacy related activities.

Where Middle schoolers talk about books. Also conversations with Writers.  

For more advanced students find words in a fun game. Harder than it looks but super fun.

From Bingo to snakes and ladders and lots in between-  games to download, use theirs or adapt for your words. 

• Fishing

• Bingo

• Snakes & Ladders

• Memory

• Go Fish

• Donkey

• Fly Swat

• Parking Lot

• Bean Bag Toss

• Pathways

• Book Land

• Boom

• Tic-Tac-Toe

• Four-in-a-Row

• Hangman

• Lucky 13

• Last Card

Scholastic Home Base is a safe, free, 3D interactive world that celebrates favorite stories through book-based games, live author events, and a large community of readers.

Home Base is completely free to use with no download fee, subscriptions, or in-app purchases.

Freebies and printables and activities—oh, my! Keep skills sharp with a variety of materials that can be assigned to reinforce instruction or provide extra practice for literacy development at home. This mix of downloadable and online resources is a handy go-to any time your child or class needs extra fun-damental skills practice.

• Click HERE to go to the main page

• Parts of speech: the noun

• Parts of speech: the verb

• Parts of speech: the pronoun

• Parts of speech: the modifier

• Parts of speech: the preposition and the conjunction

• Punctuation: the comma and the apostrophe

• Punctuation: the colon, semicolon, and more

• Syntax: sentences and clauses

• Syntax: conventions of standard English

• Usage and Style

• Click HERE to view them all from making a miniature book to pop up  book to creating  a comic book character.

The Free sign up includes

• Thousands of FREE teaching resources to download

• Pick your own FREE resource every week with our newsletter

• Suggest a Resource! You want it? They'll make it

• 24/7 customer support (with real people!)

Click HERE to go 

A dropbox list of family games to enhance diction for kids and promote fun in learning.

Click HERE for details

The course is a must for anyone new to scriptwriting and for more experienced writers who wish to raise their scriptwriting to a professional level. It will establish a common vocabulary for approaching the screenplay and form the basis for upcoming courses in dramatic adaptation, the crime screenplay, and other genres and skills.

By the end of the course, you will understand the key concepts necessary to write an effective screenplay and be fluent in the language used to discuss the form.

• Click HERE to start

• Storyboard That - this site has a free a version which lets you design everything you need for your comic strip or graphic novel.  From backgrounds to facial expressions and speech bubbles. 

• Click HERE to go  - to Imagine Forest and download a storyboard and get ideas to get started

• Production and Distribution of Writing 

• Click HERE for technical and science writing 

• Click HERE  for over 2000 downloadables and ideas about teaching the alphabet.

Resources for all ages to learn. I love the way they are beautifully directed at the different ways to suit that age. Plus extra ideas for parents including how to keep your child engaged. Quizzes, Vocabulary  enhancement and much more. A truly great resource.

Click HERE to go.

Mad libs style games to practice tenses and grammar for a comical result. 

Use Canva's free templates

Code your own graphics and add sounds. Many illustrations and sounds for free but you can pay for more. Design your own quiz or escape room. 

• Fun escape room example HERE.

• For Writing prompts Tweens and Teens Click HERE

• For writing prompts for elementary students Click HERE

• For story starters all ages Click HERE

• For all ages Click HERE

• Song writing Prompts Click HERE

Let your student create books online and share with family and friends. First 40 books per year are FREE. 

• Ways to use Bookcreator in the different subjects - HERE

Run a theater production - meet the characters, read the story then take on the role of playwright, director, music coordinator, dance choreographer, set creator, costume designer and voice over artist. 

Interesting Lesson Ideas teaching;

•  Critical thinking

• Figurative speech

• Oral History 

• and more.

K-12 cursive downloadables.

Reading, spelling, Alphabet and writing help through fun games and activities - especially love the Beatrix Potter elements

Amanda Gorman, the country's first National Youth Poet Laureate, dazzled viewers with her recitation of her poem "The Hill We Climb" at President Biden's inauguration .This PBS Kids video about Amanda Gorman the and an interview on why she writes poetry.

• Purpose

• The Purpose of Creative Writing

• Character & Setting

• How to Create a Character

• How to Create a Setting

• Theme & Point of View

• The Theme of a Story

• Point of View Writing

All of the above covered by lesson plans and text. 

• Nouns

• Pronouns

• Determiners

• Prepositions

• Verbs

The MY HERO Project uses media, art and technology to celebrate the best of humanity, one story at a time. 

Great way to give students a mission and incentive to write. Write about your hero - your student can write and publish their essay on this site. Click HERE for tutorial as to how.

The authors featured in My America delve into questions about writing influences, being multilingual, community, family, and what it means to be American. The initiative highlights writing in a variety of genres, including memoir, fiction, poetry, travel writing, songwriting, screenwriting, and more.

Let this museum in Chicago inspire your young readers - great online resources - videos, interviews and ideas to motivate and enjoy.

Let your kids be inspired to make some poetry using this machine. Like mad libs for poetry. 

Also a free verse 101 and maker. 

Interviews with Writers on writing 

Spelling lists for 1-9th grade. 

• Click HERE to go 

• Click HERE to go and find expectations for all ages and tips to help at home.

Spelling for all grades

This site has FREE spelling lists by grades. Downloadables to practice. Plus Worksheets and puzzles also ways to study for spelling bees. A variety of ways to teach spelling and seasonal instruction to keep your child engaged.

Click HERE to learn to spell 

Older children can put their spelling lists in themselves for younger children you can put them in. A great fun way by repetition to have your child learn words - think Flashcards on a computer. I have used these for learning a new language it works. You can also search for "Flashcards' other people have made public.  

• Click HERE  for Quizlet

• Click HERE for a PBS Flashcard version.

Resources for all ages to learn. I love the way they are beautifully directed at the different ways to suit that age. Plus extra ideas for parents including how to keep your child engaged. Quizzes, Vocabulary  enhancement and much more. A truly great resource.

Click HERE to go.

Find words from a box of words. Harder than it looks British spelling but does not effect most words. Super fun.

Edward Dolch was a professor, book writer and the founder of 'The Dolch list' which  includes conjunctions, prepositions, pronouns, adverbs, adjectives and verbs; it includes 220 words. He referred to these words as “tool” or “service” words because they are used in all writing regardless of subject matter. Later he added a list of Nouns. To read more click HERE

Check out these resources from Sightwords.com 

Lists - all grades

Lessons - How to teach and how to correct a word

Flash cards - use there's or generate your own

Games - generate your own words or use your own for a twist on old favorites.

Picture dictionary for children - search by words or collections and see an image, description, spanish and Chinese word and press the microphone to hear it pronounced when gives ideas of where and when to use it. 

• Madlibs

• Coloring pages

• Word Games 

Also you can "Catch up with the Clemenses" on YouTube find out how it was to live in this home. HERE

Arcade + Academics = Fun Learning

Learn math facts quickly and boost student engagement with our free skill-building multiplayer math games, language games, & more!

Thank you to Samuel at BME for his suggestion. 

A great resource from the UK which not only has videos and downloadables to help your child but lots of ideas for parents and teachers. The video has an American sounds video for the alphabet too. 

• Click HERE to go  to all the resources

• Click HERE  to go to a downloadable on using actions to help remember sounds

A sure way to get your child learning fast and happily. The cartoons are fun and engaging.  They are free on Netflix or you can buy the video or find them on youtube.

• Click HERE to go to the Netflix link

See It, Say It, Sign It as you learn sign language for each letter and the letter sounds for each letter of the alphabet with American sign language in this Jack Hartmann video.  Jack shows the sign for each letter and the letter sounds for each letter as he sings the letter name and the letter is shown. 

• Click HERE  to go to his YouTube channel. 

Already mentioned above - but worth another mention as it does phonics (and all reading assistance very well. : )

• Click HERE for Pre-K and Kinders

• Click HERE for Grades 1-3 (6-10 years)

From PBS 

• Click HERE to go to videos and games to get your Word Power.

Lalilo is an online tool for K, 1st and 2nd grade teachers and students. The website is accessible on tablets, iPads and computers. It works in school environments or in a distance learning setting. Though the website is predominantly designed for teachers - parents assisting children at home can also sign up for free. Classes can also be personalized for older students.  

Great choice for the older child and younger one alike. Videos with great graphics and a funky beat.

Audible is offering free audible reading to kids while at home from school.

Start your child listening to books for free by   clicking HERE

Watch as astronauts at the International Space Station read children's books.

• Click HERE to access the library 

• Click HERE to start  and find lots of books read by celebrities to your child.

Great for all ages. Helps with spelling, keyboard placement and skills. 700 free activities. K-12 (4 years- 18 years) 

I love this program - children can invite their friends to race them. The faster they get the more car upgrades they get.

Fun for the new typer and younger children.

Four levels

Engaging Curriculum

Students learn valuable technology fundamentals – designed by experts for students of every skill level.

Gamified Learning

Fun typing games, interactive lessons, and achievements.

Make it Your Own

Enhance learning by creating lessons for cross-curricular reinforcement.

Fun games to inspire your student to learn to type. All levels.

5-18 years. 

Some ways to test your typing words per minute.