Student ELA & Math Sites (Elementary)
This hands-on course will provide teachers with a list and an opportunity to use online
interactive games that allow students to practice key ELA and Math skills.
Sites that offer both Math & ELA Games
www.scholastic.com/teachers/student-activities
An engaging website that offers a variety of interactive
activities for all subject areas in every grade level. This
website would help to meet several WALSS in both math
and ELA
http://interactivesites.weebly.com/
A fun interactive learning site that offers student games
pertaining to specific subjects and topics. These games can
easily be aligned with classroom content and instruction. For
example – Fractions Jeopardy would help to meet WALSS
4.NF.
www.abcya.com
Abcya.com is a teacher-created website which provides
fun and educational games for kids in grade K-5 to use.
This website provides games that aim to build reading,
math, and multiple literacy skills. It’s easy to use and can
be used as a great supplemental to piece to help reach
CCSS and to enhance student learning. For example –
Synonyms & Antonyms would help to meet WALSS L.4.5.c
& L.5.5.c.
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/
Crickweb offers a variety of interactive leveled games for both
math and literacy. Early Years is geared for Preschool –
Kindergarten, Key Stage 1 is for primary grades and Key Stage
2 is for intermediate grades. It can help meet a variety of
common core standards; depending upon the game and level
you choose. For example - Count with Lecky would help to
meet WALSS K.CC .4.
http://www.fun4thebrain.com
Fun 4 the Brain offers interactive games in both
Math Operations and ELA. For example – Magic “e”
Adventures would help to meet WALSS R.1.3.c.
ELA
http://www.funenglishgames.com
Provides grammar, reading and writing activities that are great
for all students, but especially beneficial to your bilingual
students. For example, Non Fiction Games for Kids would help
to meet WALSS RL.1.3
www.scholastic.com/teachers/activity/story-starters
Story Starters is a fun, interactive tool that generates writing
prompts, which include direction on character, plot, and
setting. Students will love watching the Story Starters' wheels
spin. If they want to modify the prompt, they can simply pull
the handle on the Story Starters Scrambler to change any
piece of it! This activity is now also available for iPad. This site
helps to meet WALSS W.3 and W.5
http://www.si.edu/kids
Smithsonian is a beneficial website for kids and educators. It
offers a variety of educational resources that align with our
standards. This website also has interactive games for students
to play and enhance their learning in specific subject areas.
Lastly, si.edu has ebooks for students to use as a way to further
support their reading skills.
www.tumblebooks.com
Tumblebooks is a website that builds reading, and multiple
literacy skills. Tumblebooks has nearly 1000 titles, with content
most appropriate for those in grades K-6. It includes animated
talking picture books, chapter books, videos, non-fiction titles,
playlists, books in languages other than English such as French
and Spanish, graphic novels and math stories. If your school has
a subscription, there are many educational resources such as lesson plans, quizzes, educational
games and puzzles related to language skills. It also includes free common core portals: a K-5
English Common Core Portal. These portals have resources aligned to core standards and make
integrating TumbleBooks and the Common Core into your classrooms effortless. These portals
are also useful since they contain lesson plans and quizzes which help build certain skills, such
as vocabulary building or understanding elements of a story. If your school does not have a
subscription, you can still access all of the audio books through the Mid-Columbia Library’s
webpage.
www.starfall.com
Starfall is a free website that teaches children how to read and
write in English. It is designed for primary students and provides
opportunities to learn to read through phonics, various games and
reading activities. It is divided into four leveled areas beginning
with learning the alphabet and its sounds, to reading interactive
online stories from a variety of genres. For example – Make a
Word would help to meet WALSS RF.K.3 & RF.1.3.
www.worldbookonline.com
World Book Online is the best online reference
resources and learning website for students, kids
and families. World Book Online contains all of the
articles from the popular print version of the
encyclopedia, in both English and Spanish. This
source also provides access to five hundred maps
available in the World Book Atlas. In addition to
these sources, World Book Online contains links to current web sites and magazine articles, and
features a continuously updated current news section. A Back in Time feature traces a place or
subject as it was covered in past World Book Yearbooks, and a Today in History feature
discusses significant events that happened on a day’s date in the past (Skokielibrary, 2014).
This site will help to meet any standard in which research such as WALSS W.5.7 & CCSS W.5.9
http://www.sowashco.k12.mn.us/ro/Pages/studentlinks/map/reading.htm
Above is a link to a MAP reading website, created by another district, that
provides students with reading activities at their individual MAP reading
level. Students choose from one of the 3 reading areas and then on the
appropriate level based on their most recent MAP Reading score. For
example – WALSS RI.4.2 & RI 4.3.
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/Printing_Press/
This site offers an online template to create a
brochure, newspaper article and flyer to help
students publish their work in a fun, digital way.
One standard it would help to meet is WALSS
W.3.1 & W.3.
Math
https://play.dreambox.com/play/login?requested_url=%2F%3Fback%3Dhttps%253A%252F%25
2Fplay.dreambox.com%252Freports
Dreambox accounts have been purchased for each elementary
student. The online math site has an adaptive engine that
adjusts the math games being provided based on what
students show they understand. Teachers can see progress
students are making within specific WALSS.
http://studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/index.htm
Study Jams provide students with video tutorials and an
opportunity to practice a variety of math skills that meet
several of our WALSS.
http://www.sowashco.k12.mn.us/ro/Pages/studentlinks/map/
MAP Math is website created by another district that provides
students with math activities at their individual MAP Math
level. Students can choose one of 4 strands in math and then
choose the games appropriate for their level based on the
most recent MAP Math score. For Example – Conclusions from
Data found in Data Analysis level 211-220 would help to meet
WALSS 5.MD.2
http://www.mangahigh.com/en-us/math_games/number
Magnahigh has free games and common core based practice
sessions for elementary math. This site also has a paid upgraded
version in which you can post assignments and keep track of
student progress but is great to use even without the paid
upgrade. An example of how a game would help to meet
standards is Pyramid Panic could help to meet WALSS 4.MD.5.
http://nlvm.usu.edu/
This site offers online manipulatives and games across the
grade levels and strands. Click on the graphic in the
corresponding grade and strand box to find all of the
interactive tools it has to offer you. For Example – Base Ten
Subtraction will help to meet WALSS 2.NBT.5.
www.multiplication.com
This site has a wealth of games to practice
multiplication facts in a fun, engaging way. There are
also games in which students can compete against each
other for speed and fluency. Some of the games focus
on a particular fact family at a time while others have
the option for choosing multiple fact families. It also
has addition & subtraction games. For Example –
Chopper Challenge would help to meet WALSS.Math.Content.3.OA.1
http://www.sd251.org/Labs/envisionMath%20Games%20Web%20PageUPDATE.htm
This website offers interactive math games in English and in
Spanish. There are games for various strands within math
on this website. For Example – Dragon Drop would help to
meet WALSS 4.NF.6
Other sites you might want to explore if you have time –
www.abcmouse.com (A great resource if you are a primary teacher. Although it looks like a pay
sight it is free to load a class.)
www.coolmath4kids.com/ (variety of math games)
http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/perimeter_and_area/ind
ex.html (area & perimeter practice)
http://www.aplusmath.com/ (math fact practice)
http://resources.oswego.org/games/mathmagician/cathymath.html (math fact practice)
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/eyk/index.asp (online quizzes for a variety of subjects)
http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/math-games/ (math games)
www.storylineonline.net (Actors from the Actors’ Guild reading stories aloud)
http://www.psd1.org/Page/3773 (Mr. Mejia at Livingston has linked a variety of fun literacy games to
his site)
http://www.psd1.org/Page/3405 (Mr. Mejia at Livingston has linked a variety of fun math games to his
site)
http://www.psd1.org/domain/509 (Mrs. Donnelly created a math links page that has fun games to try)
www.storybird.com (sign up your students with a log in for free and the can create books online with
pre-created illustrations)
www.loc.gov (Library of Congress has amazing resources for kids)
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/kidsclub/flash/index.html (fun website for kids look at and do
various activities)