Reading and Math Educational Websites

Reading and Math Educational Websites

Reading:

• Starfall
• ReadWriteThink
• GameGoo
• Sesame Street
• Arthur
• Play Kids Games
• Toon University
• Primary Games
• Apples 4 the Teacher
  
• Surweb
• Pioneer Library
  
• Utah History Encyclopedia
• Puzzlemaker
• Language Arts at pppst.com
• Storyline Online
• Free Rice
• Poisson Rouge
  

Math:

• National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
• Pattern Dots / Polka Dot Shorts / Patterns Shape Our World
  
• Toon University
• Primary Games
  
• 2 minute warning
• Rainforest Maths
• Elementary Math
  
• Mathematics at pppst.com
• Apples 4 the Teacher
• Free Rice
• Amelia Earhart Elementary Computer Lab
• Illuminations
  

Additional online K-12 teacher resources:

• Canyons EMT
• UEN Core Curriculum
• UEN Student Center
  
• Thinkfinity
• Literacy Network
• ReadWriteThink
• Elementary Technology Lessons

How to add these sites to the school folder

As with any other educational technology tool, educational websites should be used as part of a planned lesson to teach core curriculum concepts. For example:

1. Anticipatory Set - A short activity, dispatch or prompt that focuses the students' attention and ties previous lessons to today's lesson.
2. Purpose - An explanation of the importance of this lesson and a statement concerning what students will be able to do when they have completed it.
3. Input - The vocabulary, skills, and concepts to be learned.
4. Modeling - The teacher demonstrates what is to be learned
5. Guided Practice - The teacher leads the students through the steps necessary to perform the skill using multiple modalities.
6. Checking For Understanding - The teacher uses a variety of questioning strategies to determine if the students are understanding.
7. Independent Practice - The teacher releases students to practice on their own.
8. Closure - A review or wrap-up of the lesson.

(Source: Dr. Madeline Hunter http://www.csun.edu/science/ref/plans/lesson_design_hunter.html)

Example:

Patterns

• Core Curriculum: 1st Grade Mathematics, Standard 2, Objective 1
  
• Anticipatory Set: Patterns Shape Our World
  
• Purpose: identify, create, and label repeating patterns using objects, pictures, and symbolic notation
• Input: Mathematical language - attribute, repeating patterns
• Modeling: Eyes on the "big screen"
  
• Guided Practice: Polk Dot Shorts
• Checking For Understanding: Pattern Dots
• Independent Practice: Kid Pix Patterns
• Closure: View student project and review concepts and vocabulary learned