Useful Websites

This page features numerous educational websites that can be used to help students practice various skills.

Literacy and Mathematics

Starfall

http://www.starfall.com/

This website offers activities that support literacy and math skills targeted for younger students. Students can practice a number of literacy skills including letter naming, letter sounds, sight words and simple books. Students can practice math skills including word problems, telling time, composing and decomposing numbers and much more. With a more Starfall account even more activities are available for students including a whole section dedicated just to first grade.

Woodlands Literacy Zone

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy/index.htm

This website offers games and activities for literacy practice. It includes words and spelling, grammar and punctuation, writing and text work and online stories. Each category has numerous skills within it.

Interactive Math Games and Activities

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/maths/

This website offers practice games and activities for a number of math topics including number skills, shape and space, data and probability, measurement and more. Each topic is divided into skills for example number skills is divided into addition, subtraction, times tables, division, hundred square, place value, fractions, decimals, percentages, mental math and word problems. Each topic has a number of games to choose from as well as a worksheet generator.

Math Playground

http://www.mathplayground.com/index_addition_subtraction.html

This website has a number of math games designed to help students practice specific math skills including addition, subtraction, word problems and manipulatives. You can sort the games by grade level and skill.

ABCYA

http://www.abcya.com/index.htm

This website has activities to practice literacy skills, math skills and more. It is organized by grade level. Each grade level has activities for letters, numbers, strategy and skills.

FunBrain

http://www.funbrain.com/kidscenter.html

This website provides a number of educational games for math, reading and more. You can choose activities by grade level or category.

Light up Your Brain

http://lightupyourbrain.com/

This website features a number of audio books that students can listen too. It also has games and activities that help students practice their reading, color-matching, math, fine motor, and problem-solving skills.

Interactive Sites for Education

http://interactivesites.weebly.com/abcs.html

This website offers a variety of interactive educational games for students in grades K-5. It has games and activities for Math, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, Art, Music, Typing, Spanish and more. Each subject area has numerous topics to choose from each accompanied by a variety of games. For example, there are 56 games in the addition section of the math category. The website offers a huge variety of games at a wide variety of skill levels.

Science

PBS Kids

http://www.pbs.org/parents/fun-and-games/online-games/

This website provides a number of educational games including, science, reading, math and more. It also features some of the student’s favorite characters from the educational shows on PBS.

The Lawrence Hall of Science

http://www.lawrencehallofscience.org/kidsite/

This website has a number of online science games, links to hands on science activities and experiments. It has a variety of science activities for students of all ages.

A-Z Animal

http://a-z-animals.com/index.php

This is an online encyclopedia of animals. There are almost 600 animals featured on this website. It is kid friendly and has a lot of pictures.

Typing Skills

Typing Club

https://www.typingclub.com/

This is a free website designed to help students practice their typing skills. It has activities that introduce the letters on the keyboard, it has activities to improve typing speed, it introduces number keys and symbols.