Read! Children need to read or be read to every day. This includes reading to learn as well as reading for enjoyment. Reading should be no less than 20 minutes a day. If you are home all day, a few 20 minute sessions would be great. The Resource Bank has plenty of audio books, story times and online reading available if you are short on books at home.
Write! Your child should do a bit of writing (this includes typing) every day. They can respond to what they read, write a journal or poem, work on a story or essay, or write a "how-to" manual. Kids could even watch one of our live animal cams and write an observation or story based on their expereince. The possibilities are endless.
If you find there are too many resources to sort through, you can filter the results using the “Filter Resources” area on the left side of the screen. Select “Education Level” to narrow your results to a specific education level. (Please note - for the purposes of this site these "Education Levels" are used when filtering - Lower Primary = K-2, Upper Primary=3-5, Middle Years=6-8, High School=9-12)
This site offers all kinds of printable worksheets (math, reading, writing), file folder games, coloring pages, mask making templates, and fun facts for kids (animals, geography and weather, bugs, plants, space and solar system, holidays).
A large colelctional of journal topics, story starters, reading log forms, and resources for teaching writing
Julie Andrews reads children's literature for all of our enjoyment.
Kahoot! is a game-based platform that makes learning awesome for millions of people all over the world. Sign up to create and play fun quiz games!
Having students make quizzes on Kahoot! is a great way for them to extend their learning and benefit the entire class!
Kahoot! is an excellent formative assessment tool. You can give feedback to your students after each question as you play. Make learning a game show...your students will never have so much fun being assessed.
This site offers a collection of resources to help support learning while families are home due to the COVID-19 pandemic and suspension of in-class instruction. It will be updated as more resources are identified and there is new information to share.
Sections include: (for Early Learning and Primary Years through to Adult Learning)
- Weekly Home Learning Videos
- Activities
- Learning from Home
- Everyday Learning Activities (ideas for promoting learning in many subject areas and with many activities)
- Resources (including educational programming from museums, science centers, zoos, artists, storytellers and others on a wide variety of topics, activities, games, videos, books and reading, educational collections, hands-on activities, languages, math, outdoor education, science, natural and human history, special education, French resources, and much more)
- Keeping Healthy
Watch. Practice. Learn almost anything for free.
Now with ELA!
*Math K-12 (including "get ready for grade X to prepare") + college level
*Computing
*Science
*Arts, Business & Humanities
*Reading & ELA
*Life Skills - growth mindset, AI, financial literacy, SEL, safety, career
*Economics
A learning app for kids 2-7 years old.
Focussed on the whole child, interactive, fun, engaging, and free.
An adaptive path or independent learning path are available.
"Use Kialo to help students get to the core of the issues they’re discussing To put their knowledge into action.
To sharpen their critical reasoning skills
To demonstrate their understanding
To engage constructively with each other
Take your classroom discussions online, break down complex subjects for students, and shake it up with new types of assignments."
This education version is free for teachers to use!
Kids Scoop is News magazine that features standards-aligned activity packs for kids K-5.
Kid Scoop News magazine is available as a free PDF or print newspaper delivered to classrooms. This magazine can be shared with students to read at home or in the classroom. After students have read through the magazine, teachers might have them share out to the class something they learned or had a question about. This could kick off a discussion and might even lead to further research into some of the more interesting topics.
Beyond the magazine, teachers will find dozens of downloadable activities and lesson plans -- some free, some paid -- to slot into lessons. Many of these would work well as ways to kick off or cool down a class period. The resources for home-school connections offer helpful tips for communicating with parents about ways kids can use and benefit from Kid Scoop News at home.
The "Kids" section includes the following topics: Answers, How to Draw, Just Plain Weird, Puzzles, Scrub Squad, Write On
The "Teachers" section includes: Next on Kid Scoop, WWC Topics, Teacher Guide, Teacher Scoop, Standards, STEM News
The "Parents" section includes: Crafts, Recipes, Try This At Home
Phonological awareness skills are important in order to develop good reading and spelling skills. Having good phonological awareness skills means that a child is able to manipulate sounds and words, or “play” with sounds and words. For example, you might ask your child to break the word “cat” into individual sounds: “c-a-t.”
Important: These skills deal with SOUNDS not letters. For example, /t/ represents the sound and not the letter name “tee.” You will not use any written or visual letters when working with phonological activities. These activities are done with listening and speaking only. Learning the letter names and their corresponding sounds is also very important but should be taught and practiced at a different time of the day.
This resource will have a weekly activity for your to work on with your child/student(s). It will include a handout with information and guidance, as well as a video to help support you and the learner.
CLICK THE WORDS "INFORMATION FOR PARENTS AND TEACHERS" TO GET STARTED (do not click on view description).
Language arts videos for young learners from TVO including silly songs, and full episodes of some shows.
Calldecott winning author Laura Vaccaro has compiled a free set of literacy resources to go along with her books which educators are free to print and share. These resources would support literacy in both reading and comprehending, as well as creating and responding to text. Most of the books are available to read online, or could be read aloud as part of a video shared with families. The resources to accompany the books are printable, so may be supportive of those families with less access or familiarity with technology
"Learn360 is the premier streaming digital delivery service for the K–12 educational market: the complete district solution. Teachers, students, and parents can access more than 130,000 multimedia resources - including high-quality full-length videos, video clips, images, audio files, articles, activities, worksheets, and more - on any Internet-enabled device, anytime, anywhere. Its enhanced, state-of-the-art platform, featuring the content, navigation, educator tools, speed, and performance that today’s online experience demands, makes Learn360 a powerful tool for flipped classrooms, blended instruction, project-based learning, and 1:1 environments. Content is provided by more than 200 top educational producers, and that number is continually growing. Learn360 currently serves more than 22 million students in 26,900+ schools across the United States and Canada."
Included are:
*Videos
*Interactives
*Printable Materials
*Audio Books
*Feature Films
To access full movies from criterion click the menu and scroll down to PREMIUM CONTENT and click "Criterion on Demand". There you can find many full length feature films to watch!
Sun West Students can contact their teachers for login information for at home learning.
Gamified, data-driven activities help master keyboarding skills.
A huge number of digestible lessons, addictive gameplay, an intuitive skills progression, and an attractive interface.
Libby, by Overdrive is a books app that allows kids to browse and borrow ebooks and audiobooks from public libraries for free. Kids will need a library card to download or stream the books they want to borrow. The app connects users to their local library's ebook and audiobook collection. Users can link multiple library cards from different branches to access a wider collection. Kids can sample books before deciding to borrow them. If they're not immediately available, they can put titles on hold, and the activity tracker lets them track what they've read. Search for a specific title or explore different collections, including Kids, Teens, What's Popular?, and Subjects. Little kids can access picture books with read-along audio, making some books more accessible to early readers. Even though Libby, by Overdrive gives users access to a wide range of books, grown-ups can activate a juvenile or young adult filter in order to limit kids' access to the entire collection.
DON'T FORGET YOU CAN ACCESS BOOKS ON SORA AS WELL ALL YEAR LONG (if your school has Sora)!
This site offers a reading and writing initiative that connects authors with readers.
Teachers can use this site to make reading and writing more relevant to their students. No matter the grade, LitPick could be a great fit for an independent reading activity. Students can read the reviews of books for free and can sign up as reviewers, request books that interest them to review, and then publish reviews as the culminating assessment. LitPick also supports a book group experience. In this model, an entire classroom can join LitPick as one group, and teachers can monitor the group from a dashboard. Students can all read and review the same book, or choose different ones. There's also an option to do video reviews, which might be good for older students as a way to extend learning beyond the written review.
Includes organizers to: interpret, examine themes, make inferences, summarize and analyze.
Grades 5 to 8.
Have your students use the downloadable worksheet to mix and match morphemes to create words.
Suggested reading for summer or any time!
Enjoy these stories about the popular Moon Dogs characters doing activities at home.
Included are free resources to read and print at home. They support the teaching of the following spellings/sounds:
- 'ae', 'ee', 'ow', 'er',
Check for other great free resources on this website while you're there.