Dear Families,
Below you will find a compilation of both resources currently used by the district, and other supplemental sources that students may utilize for extra academic review and practice. Please note that these third party resources are from trusted sites used widely in the education community, however the sites have not been vetted in entirety by the Lakeland School District.
IXL: Reading, Math, & Science
IXL is a personalized learning tool we utilize for all 7th and 8th graders which establishes an independent learning path for students based on diagnostic assessment data. This personalized path helps to remediate any skill deficits, and enrich and accelerate students as needed. Students are able to login using Clever.
Online Resources Aligned to District Curricular Materials for Specific Grades/Subjects:
Wilson Fundations (ELA K-2)
Wilson Fundations is a multi-sensory, research based program used in our K-2 classes that teaches the critical foundational skills for reading and spelling. The link below will take you to a resource page where you can access skills previously taught by grade level. Review activities include spelling practice, reading fluency, handwriting and more.
https://www.wilsonlanguage.com/pages/fun-resources/
Great Minds (ELA Grades 3-6)
Daily Recorded Wit and Wisdom Lessons by Great Minds' teachers that can be viewed on any device.
McGraw Hill Education: Connect Ed (Math Grades 1-5)
Connect Ed is an online supplement to our elementary math program which allows students to play math games and review math content. Students who use this resource at school will have their own unique log-in and password provided by their teacher. The link to access ConnectEd can be found below.
https://my.mheducation.com/login
Other Free K-12 Supplemental Resources:
Khan Academy: (K-12)
Khan Academy, a non-profit education resource has created sample schedules families can use to structure the day during school closures. The daily schedules and content links are broken into grades Pre-K-2, 3-5, 6-9, and 10-12.
NaNoWriMo: (K-12)
Does your child love to write? Would they be interested in writing their own novel? If so, this nonprofit resource may be just what they’re looking for. Check out the link below for access to Elementary, Middle, and High School Writing Guides that help students create characters, build settings and hatch plots.
https://ywp.nanowrimo.org/pages/writer-resources
Virtual Field Trips: (K-12)
Discovery Ed has a variety of Virtual Field Trips students can participate in or watch on demand later. Each no-cost Virtual Field Trip comes with a companion guide packed with standards-aligned, hands-on learning activities!
https://www.discoveryeducation.com/community/virtual-field-trips/
TedEd: (K-12)
TedEd has a variety of short video based lessons for all ages and interests. Below is a link to some of their videos organized by topic.
Mystery Science (K-5)
Mystery Science offers a variety of free short digital-based, or longer hands-on science experiments for students in grades K-5.
https://mysteryscience.com/school-closure-planning
TweenTribune and Tween Tribune Junior (3-12)
Smithsonian TweenTribune allows you to access a variety of articles at different lexile levels. Each article ends with a critical thinking question.
Storyline Online: (K-2)
The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s award-winning children’s literacy website, Storyline Online, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Readers include Viola Davis, Chris Pine, Lily Tomlin, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, James Earl Jones, Betty White and dozens more. Story Online is an excellent resource for children with learning disabilities like dyslexia. This website records free videos of narrators reading children’s books aloud. Students develop their literacy skills by following along with text as the literature comes alive. Each book includes supplemental curriculum developed by a credentialed elementary educator, aiming to strengthen comprehension and verbal and written skills for English-language learners
www.storylineonline.net
ReadWorks: (3-12)
ReadWorks is committed to solving America’s reading comprehension crisis and student achievement gap. Driven by cognitive science research, ReadWorks creates world-class content, teacher guidance, and integrated tools that improve teacher effectiveness and student achievement.
FREE content, curriculum, and tools to power teaching and learning from Kindergarten to 12th Grad
Scholastic Learning At Home Pre K-12
Scholastic Learning at Home features day by day topics and projects to keep kids reading and thinking at home! Days 1-5 are already posted. Keep checking back for additional updates!
https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome.html?caching
Spanish Resources:
101 Spanish activities for kids stuck at home
https://spanishmama.com/101-easy-spanish-activities-for-kids-stuck-at-home-with-printable-lists/
PBS Kids: K-5
Fun games and activities from the TV channel.
Library of Congress Kids and Families (All ages)
Great resources for young readers and families to explore together from the Library of Congress.
National Geographic Kids and National Geographic Families (All Ages)
Games and Videos from National Geographic geared towards kids. National Geographic Families has articles, podcasts and more on a variety of topics fro families.
https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/family/
Resources for Concert Choir, Concert Band, Jazz Band, Theatre, Music Theory and Music History
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Kl6CPBzjk4yMz_hanT4gEurZYDKs6vsl_UwoFoClzzg/edit?ts=5e7d0cc9
Aligned with Common Core Standards, IXL Worldwide is a dynamic, immersive website offering adaptive learning for students with disabilities. From Pre-K through senior year, IXL will provide fun exercises for mathematics, language arts, science, and social studies. Children remain motivated by earning awards like stickers and balloon animals for each lesson mastered.
The Wisconsin Media Lab created the Into the Book! website to provide engaging reading comprehension activities in English and Spanish. Elementary children with learning disabilities will benefit from dissecting books, such as The Wolf Who Cried Boy and A Pirate’s Life. Short, 15-minute videos are included to teach important reading strategies like visualization and summarizing.
https://reading.ecb.org/index.html
Reading Rockets
Featured on PBS, Reading Rockets is a David M. Rubenstein Prize-winning website devoted to providing research-based activities that help struggling readers. There is an extensive library of lessons centered on fluency, oral language, phonemic awareness, reading comprehension, and other literacy skills. Children can also incite their passion for reading with themed booklists, such “Young Detectives.”
https://www.readingrockets.org/atoz
Learning Alley (All Ages)
For nearly 70 years, Learning Ally has been a leading nonprofit devoted to helping people with print disabilities, especially dyslexia. From kindergarten to college, learning disabled youth can access the website’s library of over 80,000 audiobooks with VOICEtext. Award-winning books, such as Little Red Riding Hood and Alice in Wonderland, are human narrated in clear voices to boost students’ comprehension.
Attracting over 11 million views monthly, Do2Learn is an unparalleled special needs resource website started in 1996 through a NIH Small Business Innovation Research grant. Learning disabled youth access thousands of free elementary-level worksheets for literacy, math, visual discrimination, behavior management, and more. There are also printable picture cards available to promote functional communication in children with Autism.
Featuring the kidSAFE Seal, FunBrain is an educational website managed by Sandbox Networks since 1997 with exciting arcade games. Children with learning disabilities in grades K-8 can watch lesson videos and practice their skills in attention-grabbing games like Penguin Drop. Game directions are conveniently illustrated to assist struggling readers too.
https://www.funbrain.com/pre-k-and-k-playground
Exploratorium:
Children with learning disabilities and a knack for science will enjoy The Exploratorium, a website that brings the San Francisco museum to your desktop. Youth can scroll through 55 pages of educational videos to illustrate key topics like climate change, electricity, and human anatomy.
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