Free Online Resources For Teaching Struggling Learners At Home
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This is a list of resources that are free and easy to use for parents of struggling or emergent readers, as well as resources for students to use in all subjects. Some of these are only free for a while, but they are still great resources to take advantage of since many parents are now suddenly homeschooling.
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Free Reading Resources For Struggling Readers
- Heggerty Phonemic Awareness
- Free Phonetic Readers
- SPELD SA Phonic Books
- Sounds-Write Phonics Games
- Sonday System Parent Empowerment Pack
- National Center on Improving Literacy
- BYU Systematic and Engaging Early Literacy lessons
- Florida Center For Reading Research
- Mississippi Department of Education (K-3)
- The Writing Revolution activities
- Teach Your Monster To Read
- Really Great Reading
- Dog On A Log Books
- Letterland
- Scholastic Learning At Home
- Live story read alouds by authors and illustrators
- Storyline Online – books read aloud by celebrities
*And a notable mention to Nessy for offering a special 2 month deal for only $32
More free educational resources
In addition to these free reading resources, check out the following free educational websites in all subjects. These are great to use for homeschooling or to supplement any curriculum.
Math
- Funbrain
- Prodigy grades 1-8
- Math Playground grades 1-6
- Splash Learn K-5
- Math Game Time pre-k-7
- Khan Academy
- PBS K-8 math
- Greg Tang math grades 1-5
- Figure This grades 1-6
- Math Help grades 5-12
Science
- Discovery Mindblown
- Mystery Science
- NASA Kids Club
- Amazing Space
- Code Academy
- Code.org K-12
- How Stuff Works
- PBS Kids Design Squad grades 2-8
- 30 Day Lego Challenge
- Engineering activities for all ages
- Breakout EDU all ages
- Kids Discover K-6
- Fun & easy science experiments for elementary
- Marine science live lessons on Facebook
Social Studies
Other
- Brain Pop
- PBS Kids
- Duolingo
- Hello Kids coloring & drawing
- Wonderpolis
- Starfall
- What’s going on in this picture?
- Online art lessons
- Typing
- Go Noodle – movement activities for preK-elementary
Virtual Field Trips (all ages)
- Virtual trips around the world
- 33 national park tours
- Discovery Education field trips
- Panoramas of the world
- virtual tour of White House
And here are a few great podcasts for kids:
- Story Pirates creative stories hilariously reenacted, K-5
- Molly of Denali story of an Alaskan girl’s adventures
- Wow in the World science, K-5
- Smash Boom Best kid-friendly debate podcast, grades 3-8
- Bedtime History inspirational stories for kids
- What If World storytelling answering what if questions
- The Alien Adventures of Finn Caspian sci-fi
- Stories Podcast
- Circle Round storytime, K-5
- But Why a podcast for curious kids, K-5
- Brains-On! answering kid submitted questions, grades 1-6
- Tumble science grades, 3-6
- Stuff You Missed in History Class grades 6-12
- Grammar Girl grades 9-12
- Stuff You Should Know grades 9-12
If you’re looking for more tips for struggling readers, check out these other posts:
- Effective Dyslexia Interventions & Programs
- Multisensory Spelling Strategy
- Reading Strategies for Struggling Readers – Elkonin Boxes
- Multisensory Strategies for B & D Reversals
- Systematic Synthetic Phonics for Struggling Readers
- How to Implement Multisensory Learning
- Phonemic Awareness Strategies & Activities for Struggling Readers
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Parts of this list was literally copied from my pin for Learn in Color – including the entire Social Studies portion in the exact same order I did. Nobody likes someone who copies others without credit.
Hi Samantha. I have never heard of your blog before and did not copy your list. I created my own list from resources I knew about and have used and from asking others on Facebook. I looked around to find your list and it’s not even the same. I only have 4 things listed in Social Studies so I’m not sure why you think I copied you. It’s not like no other teacher knows about those resources anyway. You don’t have a copyright on lists of resources that teachers use.