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 * GOOD RESOURCE!**CONSIDER IT AS AN OPTION


 * NOT RECOMMENDED!**YOU MIGHT WANT TO LOOK AT SOMETHING ELSE

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Studyisland This is a great site for having your students practice reading, math, social studies, and science. Each student is given their own username and password to use to log in. You collect data on the work they do on this site. If they struggle on grade level, the program will move them down to a lower level. Teachers can also set up classes on Studyisland where they can assign specific skills. You can play games while working on the skill, but it won't let you play most games if you get the answer wrong. Students also have the ability to send each other messages which the administrator can monitor. My school has been using this site for years and has seen good results. We purchase it for K through 5th grade. They're always making improvements to it and I strongly recommend it.

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StudyDog This is a great site for your pre-k through 1st graders. It has them practice reading on its most fundamental level. The students take a set of pretests so the program can decide what skills they need to work on. This is differentiation at its best since there is such a difference in what skills they are assigned to work on due to the results of the pretests. Skills range from basic letter writing to identification skills to the different sounds and blends they make. They practice rhyming, contractions, reading comprehension, and many more skills. It's a bit pricy, but I've found it to be very effective with those age groups. The kids enjoy it because they see their treasure chest build up as they do better. I definitely recommend this site. . []

Timez Attack This site is one of my favorite finds for my school. Initially, this site only focused on multiplication, but has now moved onto including division, addition and subtraction facts. This is a game that has to be downloaded to a computer, but can be played and continued on any other computer that has it downloaded on it also along with an internet connection. It's a 3D environment just like the games they play on their game systems. You have to complete various missions in different environments while learning your multiplication facts along the way. They always teach it to you with dice before having you challenge a monster who will fight you if you don't know your facts. My students are always begging me to let them just get to the next checkpoint. They also take a pretest in the beginning to test what facts they need to learn. Since we got this program, we've seen our best results in our students learning their facts, and will therefore continue to renew this every year. []