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Common Core Resources
Skill Practice
Mr. Nussbaum- This site has a lot of great interactive games&activities for kids in 1st-6th grade. Skills practiced include alphabet patterns, sight words, letter identification, beginning letter sounds, spelling, sentence and paragraph correction, parts of speech, using periods, commas, colons, and semicolons, and vocabulary. I have not used the language arts games but my students have loved playing the math games on the same site.
Arcademic Skill Builders
This site has several different language arts activities including vowels, letter recognition, synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, subject verb agreement, parts of speech, and verb tenses and forms.
Starfall
This site primarily for 1st grade has various activities aligned to the common core. Students can choose various activities that are associated with Literature and Informational Text and Phonological Awareness.
Turtle Diary
This site is just for primary grades but has a wealth of activities for your students to do. Some skills practiced in the games/activities include: sight words, picture sequencing, spelling practice, writing practice, vowels, homophones, verbs, adjectives, nouns (common and proper), comprehension, pronouns, prepositions and more. Activities can be selected either by grade level, subject area, or topic.
Shepphard Software
This site has some good activities for students in 2nd-5th grade. Students can practice a grammar tutorial, do activities that give them practice with verbs, nouns, adjectives, play the comma chameleon game, or play magical capitals. On this site they also have some word games that students can play like hangman, word scramble, cross word puzzles.
Fun4theBrain
This site offers some engaging skill practice for primary students. Students can get promoted to theater manager by correctly choosing the correct sight words, or they can practice suffixes, splitting syllables, and practice using their reading tools to find a treasure.
Fun Brain Reading
This kid favorite site is designed for students in 3rd-6th grade. Students can play the following games “Grammar Gorillas”, “Idioms, “Stay afloat” (Hangman using science words, sports words, geography words etc…) idioms game, “Plural Girls” and Rooting out Words”. Make sure students do not just click on the “Playground” area of the site which is just games not reading games. This site also has stories that kids can read or have read to them.
Story Writing
Storybird
Site where students can create their own stories based upon the artwork they have chosen. According to the site “Storybird reverses visual storytelling by starting with the image and "unlocking" the story inside. Explore artists, get inspired, and write. You can create accounts for your students to use so they can save their stories. Parents have option to purchase their child’s story when they are finished. Stories can also be easily published on your class website or blog.
My StoryMaker
You have the power to decide -- choosing characters, taking them on adventures and creating your very own story along the way. my StoryMaker lets you control characters and objects -- and it creates sentences for you! Or, you can enter your own words. Once you are done with your story, you can print it out. If students do not finish their story they can get a code to finish their story at a different time.
Kerpoof
This great site is primarily for students in grades 3-5. Students love this website because they can create their own avatar and earn coins for completing different activities on the website. With their coins they can purchase different accessories for their avatar or even different story line’s they can use. Younger students like to do the “spell a picture” activity where they have to spell different words correctly and then they get to put the objects into their picture. Teachers can also have students use the “create a story” feature. Students select from different story lines and then they are given different objects and characters to build their own story. Students type the text for the story based upon the characters/objects they select. I would recommend creating usernames and passwords for students to use, so they can save any activities they do on the site.
Vocabulary
Lemons for Literacy-Vocabulary site for students where they click on correct answer that shows the meaning of the word. If they get the answer right money is donated towards reading materials for a person in need. As students get each word right glass if filled up with more lemonade. The words will adjust to each students level to make it challenging for them.
Free Rice- Same idea as lemons for literacy except grains of rice are earned for each right answer and rice is donated to starving people. Students can choose different subjects for their words they receive.
Teacher Resources for Implementing Common Core
Read Works
Great website with lots of lessons you can implement in your classroom on several topics including cause and effect, main idea, plot, setting, sequence, theme, etc…each skill topic comes with a lesson and passage for each grade level. (K-8) This site also offers students the opportunity to engage with and read higher level texts. “Multiple comprehension concepts are taught in a single unit, and all units include a pacing guide, five to seven lessons, student packet, and unit assessment.”
Math
Mr. Nussbaum
This site has a lot of great interactive, engaging games for your students. Skills practiced include +,-, /, X, fractions, estimating, solving equations, estimating angle measures.
Arcademic Skill Builders
This site has several different math activities that students can work on including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, counting money, comparing fractions, adding decimals, multiplying integers, proportion equivalency, fraction to decimal conversion, ratio recognition, ration equivalency. In many of the games students can compete against other students which they love and motivates them to try to get better.
Turtle Diary
This site is for primary students only but covers a lot of different topics. Math topics covered on this site include addition, comparing, counting, division, fractions, geometry, graphs, logic & reasoning, measurements, money, multiplication, numbers sense, patterns, probability, shapes, statistics, subtraction, and telling time.
Fun 4 the Brain
Has some interactive math activities for your students. Students can play different games in the areas of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Math Common Core Resources
Great resource with a ton of links for common core math resources. Most are links to websites that have different math related activities for your students. Each link has a brief description of what kids practice on that particular site.
Mr. Nussbaum- This site has a lot of great interactive games&activities for kids in 1st-6th grade. Skills practiced include alphabet patterns, sight words, letter identification, beginning letter sounds, spelling, sentence and paragraph correction, parts of speech, using periods, commas, colons, and semicolons, and vocabulary. I have not used the language arts games but my students have loved playing the math games on the same site.
Arcademic Skill Builders
This site has several different language arts activities including vowels, letter recognition, synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, subject verb agreement, parts of speech, and verb tenses and forms.
Starfall
This site primarily for 1st grade has various activities aligned to the common core. Students can choose various activities that are associated with Literature and Informational Text and Phonological Awareness.
Turtle Diary
This site is just for primary grades but has a wealth of activities for your students to do. Some skills practiced in the games/activities include: sight words, picture sequencing, spelling practice, writing practice, vowels, homophones, verbs, adjectives, nouns (common and proper), comprehension, pronouns, prepositions and more. Activities can be selected either by grade level, subject area, or topic.
Shepphard Software
This site has some good activities for students in 2nd-5th grade. Students can practice a grammar tutorial, do activities that give them practice with verbs, nouns, adjectives, play the comma chameleon game, or play magical capitals. On this site they also have some word games that students can play like hangman, word scramble, cross word puzzles.
Fun4theBrain
This site offers some engaging skill practice for primary students. Students can get promoted to theater manager by correctly choosing the correct sight words, or they can practice suffixes, splitting syllables, and practice using their reading tools to find a treasure.
Fun Brain Reading
This kid favorite site is designed for students in 3rd-6th grade. Students can play the following games “Grammar Gorillas”, “Idioms, “Stay afloat” (Hangman using science words, sports words, geography words etc…) idioms game, “Plural Girls” and Rooting out Words”. Make sure students do not just click on the “Playground” area of the site which is just games not reading games. This site also has stories that kids can read or have read to them.
Story Writing
Storybird
Site where students can create their own stories based upon the artwork they have chosen. According to the site “Storybird reverses visual storytelling by starting with the image and "unlocking" the story inside. Explore artists, get inspired, and write. You can create accounts for your students to use so they can save their stories. Parents have option to purchase their child’s story when they are finished. Stories can also be easily published on your class website or blog.
My StoryMaker
You have the power to decide -- choosing characters, taking them on adventures and creating your very own story along the way. my StoryMaker lets you control characters and objects -- and it creates sentences for you! Or, you can enter your own words. Once you are done with your story, you can print it out. If students do not finish their story they can get a code to finish their story at a different time.
Kerpoof
This great site is primarily for students in grades 3-5. Students love this website because they can create their own avatar and earn coins for completing different activities on the website. With their coins they can purchase different accessories for their avatar or even different story line’s they can use. Younger students like to do the “spell a picture” activity where they have to spell different words correctly and then they get to put the objects into their picture. Teachers can also have students use the “create a story” feature. Students select from different story lines and then they are given different objects and characters to build their own story. Students type the text for the story based upon the characters/objects they select. I would recommend creating usernames and passwords for students to use, so they can save any activities they do on the site.
Vocabulary
Lemons for Literacy-Vocabulary site for students where they click on correct answer that shows the meaning of the word. If they get the answer right money is donated towards reading materials for a person in need. As students get each word right glass if filled up with more lemonade. The words will adjust to each students level to make it challenging for them.
Free Rice- Same idea as lemons for literacy except grains of rice are earned for each right answer and rice is donated to starving people. Students can choose different subjects for their words they receive.
Teacher Resources for Implementing Common Core
Read Works
Great website with lots of lessons you can implement in your classroom on several topics including cause and effect, main idea, plot, setting, sequence, theme, etc…each skill topic comes with a lesson and passage for each grade level. (K-8) This site also offers students the opportunity to engage with and read higher level texts. “Multiple comprehension concepts are taught in a single unit, and all units include a pacing guide, five to seven lessons, student packet, and unit assessment.”
Math
Mr. Nussbaum
This site has a lot of great interactive, engaging games for your students. Skills practiced include +,-, /, X, fractions, estimating, solving equations, estimating angle measures.
Arcademic Skill Builders
This site has several different math activities that students can work on including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, counting money, comparing fractions, adding decimals, multiplying integers, proportion equivalency, fraction to decimal conversion, ratio recognition, ration equivalency. In many of the games students can compete against other students which they love and motivates them to try to get better.
Turtle Diary
This site is for primary students only but covers a lot of different topics. Math topics covered on this site include addition, comparing, counting, division, fractions, geometry, graphs, logic & reasoning, measurements, money, multiplication, numbers sense, patterns, probability, shapes, statistics, subtraction, and telling time.
Fun 4 the Brain
Has some interactive math activities for your students. Students can play different games in the areas of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Math Common Core Resources
Great resource with a ton of links for common core math resources. Most are links to websites that have different math related activities for your students. Each link has a brief description of what kids practice on that particular site.