Prodigy is a game based, interactive play map for students to challenge their math and English skills. After customizing a character, students go through a storyline in a world of their choosing, where wizards battle and monsters are defeated through casting of spells and correct answers to age appropriate problems. Parents/teachers can track progress on a dashboard and reward their students with in-game prizes. Once an account is created this is a child-direct link for learning.

Freckle includes a guide for how to use the program to support your at-home learner, including a pre-test for placement. “Freckle... allows students to practice Math and English Language Arts at their own level. Freckle continuously adapts to each student’s individual skills, so each student is getting the appropriate challenge, whether they’re working at, above, or below grade level.” This is an assessment practice map for tracking individual abilities and is a child-direct link for learning once an account is created.

PBS Kids allows children to dive into fun and educational videos and games. Familiar TV characters lead the learning as students select what to do. Subjects like 123, Feelings, Vocabulary, Healthy Habits, Reading and Create Games and more can be searched for specific learning. This is a child-direct link to learning.

Remind is a communication tool for teachers to facilitate the sharing of information remotely. Simply create an account, add students and begin sharing through PDFs, videos, texting and more.

ABCya offers grade level approaches to the subjects of letters, numbers, holiday, strategy, math, reading and skill with easy access to common core standards to help identify their learning goals. Interactive games can be played while mastering skills. This site is a child-direct link for independent readers, while younger students may need help navigating and selecting appropriate options for their learning abilities.

Khan Academy allows users to search for activities to support learning in Math, Science and Engineering, Arts and Humanities, test prep, Computing, Economics and Finance, college, careers and more. Progress can be tracked through mastery points and monitored to support individualized learning levels while suggesting next steps for focus in related subjects. This is a site for parents to manage, and may be a child-direct link for learning for independent readers.

“Reading Rockets is a national multimedia project that offers a wealth of research-based reading strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help young children learn how to read and read better. Our reading resources assist parents, teachers, and other educators in helping struggling readers build fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills.” This is a site for parents to utilize, and not a child-direct link for learning.

PBS Parent Resources focuses on supporting parents with reminders that “for our kids, we are enough,” along with fun and educational resources like shows, games, and printable activity ideas to help them easily find age appropriate learning by subject or interest. These subjects include Emotions and Self-Awareness, Social Skills, Character, Literacy, Math, Science and Arts. This is a resource for parents and not a child-direct link to learning.

Lakeshore Resources gives parents and teachers access to printable lesson plans, customizable activities, writing prompt calendars, craft ideas and more. Search by subjects of Math, Language, Science, and Social Studies as well as age ranges for lesson plans, or create your own flash cards and writing practice templates. Use their game-based assessments to pinpoint your child's abilities. Also, have access to purchase related materials and manipulatives to support your child’s learning. This is not a child-direct link for learning.

Khan Academy Kids includes free educational interactive play-based activities, videos, games and books in a variety of subjects. “Engages kids in core subjects like early literacy, reading, writing, language, and math, while encouraging creativity and building social-emotional skills.” This is a child-direct link for learning once the app is installed.

Storyline Online hosts a collection of stories read aloud by actors; “Each book includes supplemental curriculum developed by a credentialed elementary educator, aiming to strengthen comprehension and verbal and written skills for English-language learners.” The activity guides include the stories’ theme, synopsis and activities broken down into reading, writing, science, technology, math, speech, art and various subjects aligned to standards. This site is designed for parents/teachers to utilize, and could be used as a child-direct link to learning.

Oxford Owl, based in the UK, organizes learning instruction by age and subjects of “reading, English, math, at school, and books” in a way that parents can easily search for age appropriate lessons and activities with explanations for the learning practices, including definitions within important topics. This is a site for parents to utilize and not a child-direct link for learning.

This website is designed to help students who already know math calculations in addition, subtraction, multiplication or division to improve on memory recall, reducing the time spent on calculating or counting to achieve answers. After an initial math assessment on skills, students can work through activities to improve their times. Once a parent/teacher account is created, students can log in to a child-direct link for learning.

Read Works offers reading passages sorted by subjects like poetry, Earth & space science, spring, sports and more. With text options, curriculum and support tools you can browse by grade level to find passages to fit student interests or follow their article-a-day routine to improve reading skills through building background knowledge, vocabulary and reading stamina. This is a site for parents to utilize through print, digital access or projection and is not a child-direct link for learning.

Teach Your Monster to Read is an interactive experience. After signing up for a free account your child can create their very own virtual, friendly monster. Then, watch him hop in his spaceship and explore with him through a story-based learning adventure. As your child helps their monster identify letters and solve dilemmas they earn items for their success and progress through the map, learning reading along the way. This is a child-direct link for learning once an account is created.

Lalilo allows teachers/parents access to monitor and track student progress through play-based learning with a focus in phonics, sight-words, word-families and comprehension. An initial assessment directs students to level-appropriate interactive activities and games for learning reading skills. This is a child-direct link to learning once an account is created, as well as a site for parents to monitor.

Word World offers apps, games, interactive stories and videos featured on PBS that teach beginning reading skills. The characters’ images are created out of words and storylines captivate viewers through problem solving and challenges. The videos page can be a child-direct link for learning for most students, and apps/games are child-direct links for learning once accessed by parents.

Seesaw includes an activity library where parents/teachers can and assign activities for their student(s). Activities include a variety of response options for students to demonstrate their learning through video/voice recording, photos,writing and editing tools. Teachers can create their own library of activities and view assessments to track their students’ understanding of concepts. Subjects include Art, Computer Science, Drama, Digital Citizenship, English Language Arts, Health, Math, Reading and many more. This is a site for parents to manage, and not a child-direct link for learning.

National Geographic Kids includes educational games, videos and articles about various subjects around the world including Science, History and Animal Research. The easy to navigate site allows for searching topics or exploring current events through articles and posts. This site can be utilized by parents/teachers and can be a direct-link to learning for independent readers.

Internet Archive is “a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.” It is a searchable site that is not a child-direct link to learning.

Read Theory offers text content paired with comprehension questions, aligned to grade-level standards and a Lexile measure to track your child’s comprehension abilities and reading level. Teachers and parents can use the tools to track individual and class levels, receive technology support from their support team, and use the initial pretest to automatically match students with appropriate text for reading and questions to support their learning. This is a site for parents to manage and not a child-direct link for learning.