We have compiled a list of resources that students can use outside of school to build skills and knowledge.
Build Typing Skills
- A Bunch of Keyboarding Games
- More typing games with leveled lessons
- Type your way through classic-looking games like Pac Man and Tetris!
Build Vocabulary
- Learn about and practice roots.
- Learn about and practice prefixes and suffixes.
- Practice your prefixes and suffixes even more here.
- Click around on this site for a variety of vocabulary lists and activities.
- Try crosswords and other activities to build academic vocabulary.
- Word searches, word scrambles, and a myriad other word games help build vocabulary
Reading Challenges and Adventures
- Check out "Four Stories". Play around. See what you think.
- Reading Test Prep -> If you like that sort of thing.
- Go "into the book" on different adventures that challenge your reading.
- Lounge over at PBS Kids Island and watch some fun reading videos.
- Different reading games to help you improve vocabulary, spelling, and other skills.
- Listen to stories and answer questions to see how strong your comprehension is.
Write More (For Fun)
- Explore your hidden writing talent at Protagonize.
- Write a "five-card Flickr story" using photos from Flickr.
- Write interactive / choose-your-own-adventure tales at Inklewriter.
- Create your own tale with pictures on this site.
- Or create a "story plant" tale at the BBC.
- 182 Questions to Write or Talk About at the Learning Network Blog (Teaching and Learning @ the NY Times)
- 163 Questions to Write or Talk About at the Learning Network Blog (Teaching and Learning @ the NY Times)
- 150 Questions to Write or Talk About at the Learning Network Blog (Teaching and Learning @ the NY Times)
Get Help With Serious Writing Projects
- Build academic writing skills with these activities.
- Learn more about and get help with narratives, informational pieces, and arguments here.
- Time for Kids also offers lots of help for your writing assignments.
- Get help from real authors and students who can guide you through your writing.
Get Better at Spelling
- Some Spelling Games
- Work on your spelling with easy and challenging games.
- Combine, unscramble, or move letters to make new words or reveal secret ones.
- Lots of spelling and grammar games of varying levels.
- Recommended for ESL/ELL students, play simple spelling and vocabulary games.
Use Better Grammar
- Holy games, Batman! Over fifty games that WILL improve your grammar.
- Learn about the parts of speech (nouns, verbs, etc...)
- Write better, more sophisticated sentences.
- Try the "grammar wizard" at Time for Kids.
- Help Grammarman save the city of Verbo from bad grammar.
- Spend some time in the Grammar Arcade.
- The Virtual Grammar Lab has games and activities for... everything.
- Get better at using apostrophes.
- Challenge your punctuation, vocabulary, and other grammar skills.
- Review -- or learn -- basic grammar to help improve your writing.
- Feed fish nouns, smash verb-carrying robots, or help a fairy capitalize sentences.
- Shoot the basketball to identify different types of nouns.
- Grammar fun in English and Spanish by Scholastic.
- Grammar exercises specific to topic and grade level
Challenge Your Brain \ Sharpen Your Thinking
Improve Your Handwriting
Learn History
- Go on a mission during the American Revolution in these role-playing games.
- Go west across America with Lewis and Clark in 1804.
- Fun games to learn more about U.S. presidents.
- Some games to practice knowledge about women in U.S. history
- Be a history explorer or detective, using clues to help reveal some historical culprits.
Know Your Geography
Memorize Your Multiplication Tables
