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The #1 math app for early learners - from counting to multiplication.

■ #1 in the App Store in 20+ countries and created by an award-winning team. More than 9 million parents and 5,000 teachers have made Todo Math their go-to app for young learners

› COMPREHENSIVE: 2,000+ interactive math activities for Pre-K through 2nd grade.
› LOVED BY KIDS: math practice kids ask to play. Engaging gameplay, beautiful graphics, and adorable collectibles.
› EDUCATIONAL: Common Core State Standards-aligned curriculum. 5,000+ elementary classrooms have used Todo Math.
› INCLUSIVE & ACCESSIBLE: playable in 8 languages, left-handed mode, help button, dyslexic font and other accessibility features empower ALL children to learn independently.

Try Todo Math for free today!
› Easy email signup.
› No commitment, no credit card information collected.

■ Todo Math covers all the fundamentals of early math education
› Counting and Number Concepts - learn to write and count numbers.
› Calculation - practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and word problems.
› Mathematical Logic - number-based memory games and pictographs.
› Geometry - Learn basic geometry, such as drawing and learning shapes.
› Clocks & Calendars - learn days of the week, months of the year, and how to tell time.

■ Todo Math lets you select the right challenge level for your child
› Level A (Preschool) - Count to 10 and identify the names of shapes.
› Level B (Kindergarten Basics) - Count to 20, and add and subtract within 5.
› Level C (Kindergarten Mastery) - Count to 100, add and subtract within 10, tell time to the hour.
› Level D (1st Grade Basics) - Place value and simple geometry.
› Level E (1st Grade Mastery) - Carry-over addition, subtraction with borrowing, and dividing a plane figure equally.
› Level F (2nd Grade Basics) - Three-digit addition and subtraction, measurements with ruler, and graph data.
› Level G (2nd Grade Mastery) - Comparing three-digit numbers, addition and subtraction of two-digit numbers, foundation of multiplication.
› Not sure of which level is right for your child? No problem! Use the in-app placement test.

■ Parents Page
› Easily change your child's level, edit their learning profile, and review their learning progress.
› Sync profiles across multiple devices, including cross-platform.

■ Built by Experts
› Leading education experts from Harvard, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and Seoul National University.
› Award-winning children mobile app designers.
› Team was named co-winner of the Global Learning XPRIZE competition, a worldwide competition to have children teach themselves math and literacy skills.

■ Awards & Recognitions
› #1 in the App Store (education category) in 20+ countries, including USA, China, the United Kingdom, Korea and Japan.
› SIIA CODiE award finalist (2016).
› Winner of the Parents' Choice Award - Mobile App category (2015, 2018).
› Awarded Best Design at the LAUNCH Education & Kids Conference (2013).
› 5 out of 5 star rating from Common Sense Media.

■ Safety and Privacy
› Todo Math complies with the US Children's Online Privacy Policy, does not contain any third party advertising, and can be played without an internet connection.

■ The Todo Math app that was serviced separately in the the Australian App Store has been unified with the global version. Please search for Todo Math in the App Store and install again. Log in with an existing account to continue where you left off.

■ Have questions?
› Please check the FAQ on our website's help section (http://todomath.com/help/faqs).
› You can get the fastest response by going to the website > Help > Contact Us or the in the Todo Math app > Parents Page > Help.
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We empower ALL children to learn independently.

Version 6.14

Global Learning XPRIZE winner Enuma is now providing:
Update 6.0 contains lots of new content!
*Updated: Challenge yourself with the Monster Quiz in the updated Today's Adventure!
*Updated: Tally's appearance changes as he continues the adventure!
*Updated: Watch cute monsters move!
*Updated: Curriculum improvements!
*New Item: Cool new trophies that can be obtained from replaying challenges have been added!
*New Game: Number Maker, Digit Value Blocks, Stacked Addition, Vertical Adding and Vertical Subtracting.
*Modified other minor elements and fixed some bugs.
Let's go on a new adventure with Todo Math!

Editors' Notes

Help young students grasp basic concepts like subtraction and telling time with dozens of fun mini-games. Kids will love the app's mission mode, which rewards them for beating multiple games and offers greater opportunities for learning. Meanwhile, a handy progress-tracker lets parents and teachers see how each child is doing and tailor sessions accordingly.

Had issues with profile but customer service quickly fixed it

The subscription had only two profile while the free version had three. They were quick and fixed it within a day.

The app itself is great in teaching a lot of skills while the map in catching monster helps motivate definitely great for grade 2 and under.

Thank you for sharing, we can update your account to allow up to 4 synced profiles. Please send us a message at support@todomath.com and someone can update your account for the number of children you have playing. - A

So far my kids LOVE IT!

Sad to see only two profiles can be made. My youngest is more advanced in her math skills and dealing with the tears because she can't play the same app as her older siblings is hard to explain. Also doesn't accommodate if someone has twins or a blended family of children at the same age. Lastly, I wish some way there were more things in place to prevent some of the guessing that kids can be tempted to do. Is there a more tangible consequence to guesswork that I may not be aware of? I know it's so easy for people to list negative so don't think this is an overall negative review - the animation is great, the soundtrack and sounds are so cute, and I love the well-rounded approach to number/equation comprehension. Is there a separate app for 3rd grade and beyond? I'm already interested! Thank you!

Thank you for your review, we would love to connect with you to help answer some of your questions. Please email support@TodoMath.com

In regard to game levels, at this time we only offer up to 2nd grade curriculum.

The developer, Enuma, Inc., indicated that the app's privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.

Data Not Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

Contact Info

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Usage Data

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Compatibility

iPhone

Requires iOS 9.0 or later.

iPad

Requires iPadOS 9.0 or later.

iPod touch

Requires iOS 9.0 or later.

Languages

English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish

Age Rating

4+, Made for Ages 6-8

Family Sharing

With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.

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Based on Jolly Phonics, Cartoonito activity sheets are a perfect resource to help support children while they are learning to read and write. Each sheet provides activities for letter sound learning, letter formation, blending and segmenting. Split into 7 groups, the worksheets contain all 42 letter sounds taught in Jolly Phonics.
To download FREE phonics activity sheets, click on the following: Group 1 Activity Sheets: s,a,t,i,p,n Group 2 Activity Sheets: ck,e,h,r,m,d Group 3 Activity Sheets: g,o,u,l,f,b Group 4 Activity Sheets: ai,j,oa,ie,ee,or Group 5 Activity Sheets: z,w,ng,v,oo,oo Group 6 Activity Sheets: y,x,ch,sh,th,th Group 7 Activity Sheets: qu,ou,oi,ue,er,ar

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Speech sound resources

Language resources

Understanding and using - 'except', 'unless', 'but not', 'if' - Game - 1 | Game - 2

Understanding and using concepts 'Same' and 'different' - Language link

Describing items using categories, what they're used for, or labeling features of them - Language link

Speech and language activity resources and information

Or, download each board separately below:
Credit: Do-It solutions
Occupational Therapy (OT) resources and information

Visuals and visual timetable resources

AAC resources

Free communication boards - and instructions

Signing resources

Signing Hands - Signed stories On Mon-Fri 10.30am join Signing Hands, on | YouTube or Zoom for some daily fun

Visual impairment resources

Literacy resources - Dyslexia and learning difficulties

Reader Pen - A pen scanner for those with reading difficulties - that reads text out aloud in English/Spanish/French - Free 14 day trial - Sign up here

CrickerSoft - Reading and writing software for all abilities - Free during this period

Phonic reading games for all children, including those who cannot read or have dyslexia. Email: trugs@readsuccessfully.com for 20% off using cv2020 -

Free Phonics resources for children with SEND - Ann Sullivan (you might be asked to create a free account to access the resources)

Maths/numeracy resources

Down Syndrome resources

ADHD, autism

Foetal Alcohol Syndrome

Learning activities and resources for a range of additional needs

Life skills

First News- a newspaper for young people to get them thinking and talking about current affairs in a non-threatening way

Fun, engaging, online & offline activities

Rocket kids club - Everyone can watch and be part of our Rocket Kids Club Shows broadcasting live every Friday

Virtual Tours - Virtual online tours - including zoos, landmarks in foreign countries, etc.

Aquarium - Georgia aquarium allowing you to tour under the sea

Movement and exercise

Fine motor: Kim Griffrin, Occupational Therapist - Daily fine motor activities families can follow along to at 11am on Facebook - the videos will also be available on Griffin OT-YouTube

Concentration and behaviour resources

Simple, positive behaviour support resource. Plus a resource to help improve motivation in structured tasks - No experience required, includes simple, step-by-step instructions and resources for those who:

struggle with impulsivity

display negative reactions to rules and routines

struggle to regulate their emotions during structured and unstructured tasks

who require a high level of adult support within structured tasks for attention, engagement and to complete tasks.

FREE weekly webinars from on managing behaviour/stress/autism among other topics. Email admin@studio3.org to book & to find out what's coming up this week.

The challenging behaviour foundation - info on 'Restrictions on Contact with Family' and FAQs 'Coronavirus and the Law' both in collaboration with a Barrister to help with guidance throughout the coming weeks

Anxiety, emotions and coping with change
Credit: Julie Rayner, Irish Psychotherapy association Download PDF

Video/visual breathing exercise to calm stress -YouTube

Information for parents, carers, and schools

FREE weekly webinars from on managing behaviour/stress/autism among other topics. Email admin@studio3.org to book & to find out what's coming up this week.

Adaily SEND Q&A session to answer any questions in the Education Matters group on FaceBook (UK) - Simpson Millar

Educational Adviser, Gareth Morewood shares well wishes and useful resources on behalf of the entire S3 community during this uncertain time period: Audio recording here

Sharing notice

The links in this list to the Speech Link and Language link website are all Copywritten to, Speech Link Multimedia Ltd

They do not give permission to: Upload the files to other websites/file sharing facility / Sell the files or printed versions of the files / Email the files or post them on social media

They do give permission to:Download and print the files for your own use/email or post a link to the files only

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Whether you're the parent of a child with a reading disability or an educator that works with learning disabled students on a daily basis, you're undoubtedly always looking for new tools to help these bright young kids meet their potential and work through their disability. While there are numerous technologies out there that can help, perhaps one of the richest is the iPad, which offers dozens of applications designed to meet the needs of learning disabled kids and beginning readers alike.

Here, we highlight just a few of the amazing apps out there that can help students with a reading disability improve their skills not only in reading, writing, and spelling, but also get a boost in confidence and learn to see school as a fun, engaging activity, not a struggle.

See also 15 Of The Best Educational Apps For Improved Reading Comprehension & 20 iPad Apps To Teach Elementary Reading

Helpful Tools

These tools are useful for both educators and students with reading disabilities alike, aiding in everything from looking up a correct spelling to reading text out loud.

1. Speak It!: Speak It! is a great text-to-speech solution that can allow students with reading disabilities to get a little help with reading when they need it.

2. Talk to Me: Talk to Me is another text to speech application. It can be used to read words out loud as they are typed, which can help students to better correlate the letters and words with how they're pronounced.

3. Dragon Dictation: Dragon Dictation works in reverse of the two apps we just listed. Instead of reading text out loud, the application writes down spoken text. For students who struggle with writing, it can be a great way for them to jot down ideas or get help learning.

4. Dyslexic Like Me: Explaining dyslexia to a child can be hard, but this application can make it a little easier. It's an interactive children's book that helps students to understand dyslexia and become empowered to overcome their learning disability.

5. Merriam-Webster Dictionary

6. If spelling is a problem, it's always a good idea to have a really great dictionary on hand. This app from Merriam-Webster can provide that.

7. Ditionary.com: If Dictionary.com is your go-to place for definitions and spelling help, this app can be a great way to bring that functionality to your iPad or iPhone.

8. Prizmo: With Prizmo, users can scan in any kind of text document and have the program read it out loud, which can be a big help to those who struggle with reading.

9. Flashcards for iPad: This app makes it easy to study words, spelling, and other things that young and LD readers might need help with.

10. Soundnote: Using Soundnote, you can record drawings, notes, and audio all at once, balancing reading-based skills with those that are auditory and visual.

Fundamentals

These apps help teach the fundamentals of reading, writing, and spelling to any young learner, but can be especially helpful for those who are struggling.

1. Find the Letters HD: A favorite of special education teachers and psychologists, this app asks learners to find letters and numbers in a coloring grid. It helps build skills in spatial positioning, depth orientation, form discrimination, and concentration and attention.

2. First Words Sampler: Preschoolers with a reading disability can get a head start on improving their skills with this app that teaches them about letters and words using fun graphics and sounds.

3. Montessori Crosswords: Embrace the Montessori method by using this app to help youngsters improve their spelling and reading skills through engaging phonics-based exercises.

4. Read & Write :Students can practice reading and writing letters using this application. Users can trace letters, learn letter sounds, and get illustrations to go along with each part of the alphabet.

5. Sound Literacy: With a portion of the proceeds from this app going to the Dyslexia Association, there's no reason not to sign on. Even better, the app is incredibly useful, employing the Orton-Gillingham method to help students recognize the spellings of English phonemes.

6. weesay ABC: Using pictures, words, and sounds, this application makes it easy for young students to practice and learn their ABCs.

7. abc PocketPhonics: This app is a great tool for teaching reading disabled students the fundamentals of letter sounds and shapes.

8. The Writing Machine: By correlating pictures and words, reading text, sounding out letters, this tool helps students develop early literacy abilities with greater ease.

9. WordSort: One of the top educational apps out there, this game helps kids to learn how to identify parts of speech, like nouns, adverbs, and verbs, as well as emphasizing grammar skills.

10. ABC Phonics Word Families: Using analogy phonics (or word families) this application teaches young learners to see and hear the patterns of commonality in a set of words. With flashcards, spelling words, scrambled words, and games, this app is a must-have for helping students.

Reading

These excellent iPad apps can be a big help to reading disabled students who need a little extra support when trying to read.

1. Blio: Blio offers all the same features of any basic e-reader, and also a few things that make it unique. Through synchronized highlighting and a serial presentation view, the app helps those with reading disabilities make sense of the text, something many other similar apps don't offer.

2. Read 2 Me: For those who have difficulty reading, apps like Read 2 Me can be a godsend. The app comes complete with an entire library of texts, all of which can be read out loud.

3. Epic!: Like Netflix for children's books.

4. AppWriter: Designed with reading and writing disabilities in mind, this text editor for iPad integrates numerous accessibility features into standard text editing functionality.

5. Audiobooks: Sometimes students with reading disabilities might just want a break from reading books the old fashioned way. That's why this amazing collection of free audiobooks can come in handy, offering access to classics like Romeo and Juliet and Treasure Island.

6. Bob's Books: Bob's Books uses phonics-based interactive games to help kids learn how to read. Activities will help young learners to sound out words, spell, and make connections between letters and sounds.

7. iStoryTime: There are numerous titles to choose from in the iStoryTime series, all of which allow kids to have the book read to them or to get help reading it themselves.

8. MeeGenius! Kids' Books: MeeGenius is another series that's perfect for practicing reading skills. Those with trouble reading can use illustrations and helpful word highlighting to get help, or just have the book read to them until they're confident enough to do it on their own.

9. Reading Trainer: While this app is designed to help average readers boost their reading speed and ability, it can be useful to those who struggle as well, as many of the skills taught can help just about anyone become a more confident reader.

10. See Read Say: This application will help to ensure that young learners are familiar with all of the Dolch sight words (the most common words), using games, activities, and tons of practice.

11. Stories2Learn: Why use existing stories to help troubled readers when you can build your own? This application lets you develop your own text and audio stories, including messages, topics, and other things that can help keep kids interested.

12. eReading series: The eReading series from Brain Integration LLC, helps young readers at all levels of proficiency learn about topics like Greek Mythology and Gulliver's Travels. Users can have the book read to them, or practice reading without the help, too.

Writing

For those with reading disabilities, sometimes writing can also be a trying task. Here are some apps that can help teach, assist, and make writing more fun.

1. iWrite Words: Named by The Washington Post as one of the best apps for special needs kids, this game-based program helps youngsters learn to write their letters through a fun and engaging setup that uses illustrations and animations to keep things interesting.

2. AlphaWriter: Using Montessori-based learning methods, this application helps kids to learn how to read, write, and spell phonetically. It also teaches lessons on consonants and vowels, letter sounds, writing stories, and much more.

3. Sentence Builder: Through this application, elementary school children will learn how to build grammatically correct sentences, with a special focus on using connector words.

4. Story Builder: After kids are done learning how to build sentences, they can move onto this app which combines those sentences into one coherent story, complete with illustrations.

5. Writing Prompts: Having trouble thinking of things for students to write about? This app removes that roadblock and offers up numerous ideas for short writing assignments.

6. Idea Sketch: This mind-mapping app can help learning disabled students make sense of their ideas and organize them in ways that they can easily translate into written work.

7. Storyrobe: Teachers and students can build and share their own unique stories through this application. Integration with YouTube and email makes it easy to share and revise, too.

Spelling

These applications can be excellent tools for improving spelling skills.

1. American Wordspeller: Looking up a word in a dictionary isn't that simple if you have no idea how to spell it. This app removes that problem and employs a method that lets you much more easily pinpoint how to spell just about any word.

2. Word Magic: Created by the parents of a five-year-old, this app for young learners help kids learn words and how to spell them correctly. It uses lots of positive reinforcement, rewards, and fun pictures to keep things interesting to learners.

3. Typ-O: Poor spellers can rejoice over this great application that help you spell words correctly in any typing-related program on your iPhone or iPad.

4. A1 Spelling App: This application is a great way to help poor spellers begin to learn the correct spelling of common words, increasing difficulty as kids master words.

5. iSpell Word: iSpell Word is designed to help kids learn the spellings of simple English words. It uses games to teach, with each level of the game employing more difficult words so kids are always challenged.

6. Jumbline: If you're looking to make reading, writing, and spelling into a game, this app can help. It's full of word games that ask players to use speed, smarts, pattern recognition, and spelling skills to win.

7. Spelling Bee Challenge: Kids can have fun taking part in a mock spelling bee using this application that boosts both spelling and vocab skills.

8. Word Fall: In this educational game, words fall from the sky and players must collect letters to form basic words.

9. WordLadder: This highly challenging word game will get older readers thinking about how words are spelled and how they can be connected and changed to form new words.

10. ACT Spell: Developed especially for learners with disabilities and special needs, this tool helps develop motor control, word recognition, spelling, and reading skills.

11. Word Wizard: Lauded by The New York Times, this word-focused app lets kids hear the sounds of letters and words through a movable alphabet while also engaging them in spelling practice and games.

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Whether you're the parent of a child with a reading disability or an educator that works with learning disabled students on a daily basis, you're undoubtedly always looking for new tools to help these bright young kids meet their potential and work through their disability. While there are numerous technologies out there that can help, perhaps one of the richest is the iPad, which offers dozens of applications designed to meet the needs of learning disabled kids and beginning readers alike.

Here, we highlight just a few of the amazing apps out there that can help students with a reading disability improve their skills not only in reading, writing, and spelling, but also get a boost in confidence and learn to see school as a fun, engaging activity, not a struggle.

See also 15 Of The Best Educational Apps For Improved Reading Comprehension & 20 iPad Apps To Teach Elementary Reading

Helpful Tools

These tools are useful for both educators and students with reading disabilities alike, aiding in everything from looking up a correct spelling to reading text out loud.

1. Speak It!: Speak It! is a great text-to-speech solution that can allow students with reading disabilities to get a little help with reading when they need it.

2. Talk to Me: Talk to Me is another text to speech application. It can be used to read words out loud as they are typed, which can help students to better correlate the letters and words with how they're pronounced.

3. Dragon Dictation: Dragon Dictation works in reverse of the two apps we just listed. Instead of reading text out loud, the application writes down spoken text. For students who struggle with writing, it can be a great way for them to jot down ideas or get help learning.

4. Dyslexic Like Me: Explaining dyslexia to a child can be hard, but this application can make it a little easier. It's an interactive children's book that helps students to understand dyslexia and become empowered to overcome their learning disability.

5. Merriam-Webster Dictionary

6. If spelling is a problem, it's always a good idea to have a really great dictionary on hand. This app from Merriam-Webster can provide that.

7. Ditionary.com: If Dictionary.com is your go-to place for definitions and spelling help, this app can be a great way to bring that functionality to your iPad or iPhone.

8. Prizmo: With Prizmo, users can scan in any kind of text document and have the program read it out loud, which can be a big help to those who struggle with reading.

9. Flashcards for iPad: This app makes it easy to study words, spelling, and other things that young and LD readers might need help with.

10. Soundnote: Using Soundnote, you can record drawings, notes, and audio all at once, balancing reading-based skills with those that are auditory and visual.

Fundamentals

These apps help teach the fundamentals of reading, writing, and spelling to any young learner, but can be especially helpful for those who are struggling.

1. Find the Letters HD: A favorite of special education teachers and psychologists, this app asks learners to find letters and numbers in a coloring grid. It helps build skills in spatial positioning, depth orientation, form discrimination, and concentration and attention.

2. First Words Sampler: Preschoolers with a reading disability can get a head start on improving their skills with this app that teaches them about letters and words using fun graphics and sounds.

3. Montessori Crosswords: Embrace the Montessori method by using this app to help youngsters improve their spelling and reading skills through engaging phonics-based exercises.

4. Read & Write :Students can practice reading and writing letters using this application. Users can trace letters, learn letter sounds, and get illustrations to go along with each part of the alphabet.

5. Sound Literacy: With a portion of the proceeds from this app going to the Dyslexia Association, there's no reason not to sign on. Even better, the app is incredibly useful, employing the Orton-Gillingham method to help students recognize the spellings of English phonemes.

6. weesay ABC: Using pictures, words, and sounds, this application makes it easy for young students to practice and learn their ABCs.

7. abc PocketPhonics: This app is a great tool for teaching reading disabled students the fundamentals of letter sounds and shapes.

8. The Writing Machine: By correlating pictures and words, reading text, sounding out letters, this tool helps students develop early literacy abilities with greater ease.

9. WordSort: One of the top educational apps out there, this game helps kids to learn how to identify parts of speech, like nouns, adverbs, and verbs, as well as emphasizing grammar skills.

10. ABC Phonics Word Families: Using analogy phonics (or word families) this application teaches young learners to see and hear the patterns of commonality in a set of words. With flashcards, spelling words, scrambled words, and games, this app is a must-have for helping students.

Reading

These excellent iPad apps can be a big help to reading disabled students who need a little extra support when trying to read.

1. Blio: Blio offers all the same features of any basic e-reader, and also a few things that make it unique. Through synchronized highlighting and a serial presentation view, the app helps those with reading disabilities make sense of the text, something many other similar apps don't offer.

2. Read 2 Me: For those who have difficulty reading, apps like Read 2 Me can be a godsend. The app comes complete with an entire library of texts, all of which can be read out loud.

3. Epic!: Like Netflix for children's books.

4. AppWriter: Designed with reading and writing disabilities in mind, this text editor for iPad integrates numerous accessibility features into standard text editing functionality.

5. Audiobooks: Sometimes students with reading disabilities might just want a break from reading books the old fashioned way. That's why this amazing collection of free audiobooks can come in handy, offering access to classics like Romeo and Juliet and Treasure Island.

6. Bob's Books: Bob's Books uses phonics-based interactive games to help kids learn how to read. Activities will help young learners to sound out words, spell, and make connections between letters and sounds.

7. iStoryTime: There are numerous titles to choose from in the iStoryTime series, all of which allow kids to have the book read to them or to get help reading it themselves.

8. MeeGenius! Kids' Books: MeeGenius is another series that's perfect for practicing reading skills. Those with trouble reading can use illustrations and helpful word highlighting to get help, or just have the book read to them until they're confident enough to do it on their own.

9. Reading Trainer: While this app is designed to help average readers boost their reading speed and ability, it can be useful to those who struggle as well, as many of the skills taught can help just about anyone become a more confident reader.

10. See Read Say: This application will help to ensure that young learners are familiar with all of the Dolch sight words (the most common words), using games, activities, and tons of practice.

11. Stories2Learn: Why use existing stories to help troubled readers when you can build your own? This application lets you develop your own text and audio stories, including messages, topics, and other things that can help keep kids interested.

12. eReading series: The eReading series from Brain Integration LLC, helps young readers at all levels of proficiency learn about topics like Greek Mythology and Gulliver's Travels. Users can have the book read to them, or practice reading without the help, too.

Writing

For those with reading disabilities, sometimes writing can also be a trying task. Here are some apps that can help teach, assist, and make writing more fun.

1. iWrite Words: Named by The Washington Post as one of the best apps for special needs kids, this game-based program helps youngsters learn to write their letters through a fun and engaging setup that uses illustrations and animations to keep things interesting.

2. AlphaWriter: Using Montessori-based learning methods, this application helps kids to learn how to read, write, and spell phonetically. It also teaches lessons on consonants and vowels, letter sounds, writing stories, and much more.

3. Sentence Builder: Through this application, elementary school children will learn how to build grammatically correct sentences, with a special focus on using connector words.

4. Story Builder: After kids are done learning how to build sentences, they can move onto this app which combines those sentences into one coherent story, complete with illustrations.

5. Writing Prompts: Having trouble thinking of things for students to write about? This app removes that roadblock and offers up numerous ideas for short writing assignments.

6. Idea Sketch: This mind-mapping app can help learning disabled students make sense of their ideas and organize them in ways that they can easily translate into written work.

7. Storyrobe: Teachers and students can build and share their own unique stories through this application. Integration with YouTube and email makes it easy to share and revise, too.

Spelling

These applications can be excellent tools for improving spelling skills.

1. American Wordspeller: Looking up a word in a dictionary isn't that simple if you have no idea how to spell it. This app removes that problem and employs a method that lets you much more easily pinpoint how to spell just about any word.

2. Word Magic: Created by the parents of a five-year-old, this app for young learners help kids learn words and how to spell them correctly. It uses lots of positive reinforcement, rewards, and fun pictures to keep things interesting to learners.

3. Typ-O: Poor spellers can rejoice over this great application that help you spell words correctly in any typing-related program on your iPhone or iPad.

4. A1 Spelling App: This application is a great way to help poor spellers begin to learn the correct spelling of common words, increasing difficulty as kids master words.

5. iSpell Word: iSpell Word is designed to help kids learn the spellings of simple English words. It uses games to teach, with each level of the game employing more difficult words so kids are always challenged.

6. Jumbline: If you're looking to make reading, writing, and spelling into a game, this app can help. It's full of word games that ask players to use speed, smarts, pattern recognition, and spelling skills to win.

7. Spelling Bee Challenge: Kids can have fun taking part in a mock spelling bee using this application that boosts both spelling and vocab skills.

8. Word Fall: In this educational game, words fall from the sky and players must collect letters to form basic words.

9. WordLadder: This highly challenging word game will get older readers thinking about how words are spelled and how they can be connected and changed to form new words.

10. ACT Spell: Developed especially for learners with disabilities and special needs, this tool helps develop motor control, word recognition, spelling, and reading skills.

11. Word Wizard: Lauded by The New York Times, this word-focused app lets kids hear the sounds of letters and words through a movable alphabet while also engaging them in spelling practice and games.

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Fine Motor Skills

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KID DO is a suite of program and resources for primary school teachers, early childhood educators, parents and coaches to help children develop physical literacy. Physical literacy is the skills + confidence + motivation to be active for life. Watch our videos to learn how to teach the important foundation skills of movement, the fundamental movement skills.

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Rolling is an important element of the Gymnastics strand of the PE curriculum. The PDST Primary PE Team have developed this set of skills cards to support you in safely teaching a wide variety of rolling techniques and progressions within gymnastics at all class levels.

Instructional video clips to accompany the cards, showcasing the teaching points for each roll, are available to view on Scoilnet by clicking on the image above.

Click here or on the image above to download the set of cards. Further resources to support the teaching of rolling are available at the bottom of this page.

Click here to apply for a PE Advisor to visit your school to facilitate in-school gymnastics support (Croke Park Hours, whole staff training, in-class lesson modelling, SSE and planning support etc).

The strand units of the Gymnastics curriculum include:

The Gymnastics strand outlines the movement activities for each class level and indicates how movement can be developed sequentially. The focus is on body action such as jumping, turning, swinging and balancing and with the control and management of body movements in increasingly challenging situations. Movement tasks should be set to match children's stages of development and should provide all children with opportunities for achievement.

The gymnastics curriculum also emphasises the importance of safety when handling equipment.

The gymnastics curriculum also contains activities which refer to the teaching of specific skills e.g. forward roll, handstand, and cartwheel. Whereas all aspects of gymnastics have to be planned with an emphasis on the state of readiness of the child, this applies particularly to the teaching of specific skills. To be able to perform these with a degree of success, the child needs to be strong and supple and to be able to create tension throughout the body. The teacher should only teach these skills when the child is proficient in the introductory exercises.

While the PE Curriculum outlines the specifics of each of the strand units of Gymnastics across the class levels, the table below provides a summary of progression across the class levels

- Develop the basic movement actions of running, stopping, jumping, rolling, climbing, transferring weight, balancing, twisting and turning wrong body parts - exploring space

- Practice rocking and rolling activities

- Develop body awareness through variations of direction, pathways, levels, shape, speed etc....

- Work together to create and perform a sequence

- Talk about movement and answer questions about it.

- Develop ability to lift, carry and place apparatus safely.

Basic movement actions: e.g. balancing, rolling, turning, twisting, stretching, climbing, transferring weight (variety of rolls)

- Body awareness through movement (direction, levels....)

- Travelling on apparatus

- Individual and pair sequences

- Take off and landing skills

- Posture/good body tension

- Ability to lift, place apparatus

- Sequence of movement, vary direction, pathways etc.

- Move and travel on floor and an apparatus

- Headstand and handstand

- Forward and backward rolls (at the discretion of the teacher)

- Produce and perform sequence

- Develop good body tension and posture through gymnastics

- Show increased control in take-off, flight and landing

- Observe and describe movement and ask and answer questions about it.

- Select and link a range of gymnastics actions to travel on the floor and on apparatus

Practice and perform a range of skills

- Produce and perform more complex sequences with a partner on the floor and using apparatus

- Show controlled take off, flight and landing

- Produce group sequences

The approaches and methodologies for PE, outlined in the PE 'Teacher Guidelines' on pages 42 -100 are an excellent reference for teachers in organising Gymnastics lessons.

A thematic approach based on the language of movement is outlined on pp 74-75

A unit of work in Gymnastics outlining a ten week programme of work for senior infants is outlined on pp78-79

A unit of work in Gymnastics outlining an eight week programme of work for third and fourth classes is outlined on pp80-81

A unit of work in Gymnastics outlining a four week programme of work for fifth and sixth classes is outlinedon pp82-83

In addition the PSSI lessons on Gymnastics for all class levels are an excellent resource for teachers and outline a comprehensive programme of work specific to each class lesson incorporating a variety of approaches and methodologies across the class levels.

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This resource has been developed to support the teaching of Physical Education across the primary school. Activities are generic and can be used to support learning in any strand. The activities are designed to be non contact in nature.

In addition to promoting healthy growth and development, studies show that positive movement experiences explored during physical education lessons enhance children's ability to concentrate and maintain focus, help to relieve stress and anxiety, and encourage a lifelong love of physical activity. Physical Education has the ability to ensure that children have fun at school and establish a sense of connection with their classmates.

Click on the image to the right to download the complete resource, or scroll down to access each individual activity.

This resource pack is also available in Irish.

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120 Non Contact Activities for Physical Education across the Primary School

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Official education portal of the Department of Education and Skills in Ireland. Curriculum focused resources and support for primary and post primary teachers.

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Players need to work together to find solutions to group/individual challenges. Cooperation games put an emphasis on team building, communication and trust. Tactical problems relating to cooperation games include communication, cooperation, teamwork, trust, and problem solving.

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Fundamental Movement Skill Games Archives - ThePhysicalEducator.com

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Fundamental movement skills are the building blocks of physical literacy. These skills are usually broken down into three overarching categories: locomotor (e.g. running, skipping, galloping), non-locomotor (e.g. balances and shapes), and manipulative (e.g. throwing, catching, kicking). The following games will help your students develop their FMS skills in fun, active learning environments!

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Target Games Archives - ThePhysicalEducator.com

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Players score when they successfully throw or strike an object closer to a target than their opponents were able to. Tactical problems related to target games include shot selection, judging distance, preventing points, and protecting the shot. Examples of target games include golf, archery, bowling, bocce ball, and billiards.

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young children are resilient but we are obliged with providing them with the opportunites to move. Think about it you never see children with a wider smile than they have when they are moving and playing with their peers!

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Dá bhrí sin tá na riachtanais a bhaineann le hacmhainní i leith múineadh na Gaeilge ar eolas go rímhaith ag gach duine ar an bhfoireann. Chuige sin, bíonn ealaíontóirí agus ríomhchláraitheoirí den scoth ag obair go dian chun cláir nua-aimseartha, taitneamhacha a chur ar fáil.

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An Chéad Focal Ard-mhinicíochta Focail 1-100

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Instead of groans at the beginning of a writing lesson, your class were excited to pick up their pencils and you were the teacher that sparked their imaginations!

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Doorway Online is a collection of free and highly accessible educational games that learners will find easy to use independently. Each activity has a range of accessibility and difficulty options. Originally developed with funding from Scottish Borders Council, it is now managed by the Doorway Accessible Software Trust, a Scottish charity.

Filed Under: Tagged With: News accessible, activities, educational, free, games, interactive, interactive whiteboard, iwb, learning, literacy, maths, numeracy, school, spelling, typing

We are proud to announce Text Type, the final version of our touch typing activity. Please read these notes carefully.

We have made numerous changes to Text Type to make it more accessible:

Enhanced speech feedback echoing all keypresses and on-screen text. This makes Text Type accessible to leaners with extremely low vision, with some support.

We have increased the size of the target text to make TextType more accessible to visually impaired learners.

As far as possible, Text Type can be navigated by keypresses. These are the standard keys to navigate web browsers. TAB, Enter, the Up and Down Arrow Keys.

Doorway Single Handed Typing has been added to Text Type. This allows learners with use of a single hand to practise typing using exercises developed for their particular need. Select Left or Right from the title screen.

Teipio Testun Text Type is now a totally bilingual activity The Welsh Governement has paid for this development including the above improvements. Text Type/Teipio Testun is also available on their education website, The Hwb.

Browsers - Text Type has been tested on Microsoft Edge and Chrome. It should work in Firefox, but this is not guaranteed.
An important notice about the Speech Output
In previous versions of Text Type, the target letter (female voice) and any mistyped letter (male voice) were spoken by recorded human voices. Text Type now uses text to speech voices. The first time you use Text Type, you will need to choose the voices.

These voices are specific to the browser:

In Microsoft Edge, Sonia Online and George might be a good choice

In Chrome, the choice is between the Microsoft voices and the Google voices, female and male.

In Firefox, you can use a favourite pair of SAPI voices such as Cerevoice Heather and Stuart which are particularly clear in differentiating the names of the letters. You will have to use Firefox, which still supports SAPI voices. Firefox is not officially supported, but we have found no issues with Text Type and Firefox.

Documentation. We have produced a guide to Text Type/Teipio Testun in English, for learners in both languages.

To download this documentation, use the link below:

Two previous versions
For the moment we are keeping two previous versions on the site, TT3 phase 2 and TT3 phase 3. These are no longer supported and may not be kept here much longer.

Scheduled maintenance will be happening to the Doorway website on 16-02-2022 between 9 am and 3pm. During this time the site may not be available for around 10 to 15 minutes.

We are sorry if this causes you any inconvenience.

Doorway Online is designed to run on the following supported web browsers:

Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox (should be compatible).

If you are experiencing problems accessing our site or activities please check you are using one of the above browsers and that your browser is up-to-date.

If you are still experiencing problems please fill in an error report and we will get back to you.

Note: Internet Explorer is no longer supported by our site as it will soon be retired by Microsoft.

Important Update: There is even more up-to-date version of Text Type. Read more about this update here.

We have completed Text Type 3, the touch typing tutor for visually impaired learners that should suit anyone learning to touch type.
The new features are aimed at learners with very low vision:

Text to Speech is available for almost all on-screen text

TAB, Space and Enter can be used to access most functions

Newly recorded female and male voices are used to prompt the next keypress and warn of an incorrect keypress

Single-Handed Typing is now included in Text Type 3

We invite you to take a look at Text Type 3.

Text Type 3 phase 2, has been available on the site for over a year and will be available for three more months. It can be found here.

With the decline of Adobe Flash, soon some of our activities may not continue to function. The following activities have been renewed and will continue to work: Text Type, Speller 2, Letter & Number Formation, Cashing In and the First Phonics suite.

Fortunately, the downloadable version of our remaining activities should continue to run on Windows computers. All of our activities can be downloaded for free below!

The file is zipped and will need to be extracted before use ( how to extract/unzip a file). For installation on a school network, a request will need to be made to the network administrator.

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Doorway Activities were originally developed in Adobe Flash. This was a good way to develop such activities up to eight or ten tears or so ago. However, Apple decided not to support Flash and later tablets entered the scene. There was a solution in Puffin Browser. Our older activities still work on PCs and Android devices with Puffin Browser installed. This is no longer available on the Apple Store.

We have been able to re-code these activities to work with almost all computers and devices;

Text Type 3

Speller 2

Letter & Number Formation

Cashing In

First Phonics suite, incorporating First Sounds; First Words; First Blends; First Digraphs; More Digraphs; First Blends

First Phonics. The suite of activities now working with most devices.

These have been developed in the modern format of html5 and JavaScript and there are no restrictions to their working on browsers on PCs and Macs. They also work on tablets although on iPads they do not enter full-screen mode as they do on Android tablets. For the remaining activities, we hope to convert more.

In the meantime, if you want to access the Flash-based activities on this site; - Do not use Chrome Browser. Firefox is more friendly to Flash-based activities. If you are using a PC you can buy the Doorway Activity USB pen-drive and install the activities directly to your PC, Pendrive or Network, or even run them directly from the USB stick. It's available now at £ 10, below cost price from [email protected]. There is no copyright restriction any more.

The Doorway Activity Pack, now on USB pen-drive. All the Flash-based activities from the website should work on all Windows PCs. This includes networked PCs, but installation may require a network administrator.

We expect that you'll be able to download these activities directly from this site before too long. Watch this space .................

We are working on the final phase of Text Type 3, the touch typing tutor that can take learners from the home keys to mastery of the whole keyboard and typing sentences. This activity is designed to be as accessible as possible to visually impaired learners as possible. The final version should be accessible even to blind learners, after some initial guidance.

Learning to touch type.
There are some things that you need to know before supporting a learner on the road to touch typing

Touch Typing is just that. There should be no keeking at the keyboard. Do not look at the keyboard or your hands, all the information you need is on the screen in Doorway Touch Type.

Touch typing is a motor learning experience. This means not looking at your hands. The best way to ensure this is to cover the learner's hands with a light cloth. If you truly learn to touch type this skill will last a lifetime like riding a bike. Even learners with mild VI can be tempted to peep.

Motor learning is a very powerful tool and such skills will remin with you thoughout life. However you need to be careful. An incorrect motor habit is very hard to correct. So get it right from the start.

You need to get into a comfortable position in which the hands fall naturally onto the keyboard. The surface on which the keyboard stands must not be too high. The wrists may rest on pads if you are typing for a long time.

A Touch Typing programme is a series of lessons starting with the home keys (A S D F J K L ; ) and leading to full mastery of the keyboard. Moving on to the next exercise without sufficient mastery of the current exercise, will only lead to disappointment later on. A score of 90% or one error in every ten keypresses should be the minimum achievement before moving on. 94% or better is our recommended level of accuracy before moving on.

Learners benefit from regular practice. Little and often is best.

Accuracy should come before speed. Start slowly. If you can type at a regular pace, almost to a beat, it will help you achieve a high speed.

Doorway Text Type is a series of exercises that, followed properly, can lead to a high rate of accuracy in typing and a good rate in terms of words per minute. In handwritten exams with a lot of writing involved. Writing at a rate of 20 words per minute is an arduous task. For a typist that is a low rate of entry. A rate of 40 words per minute is entirely realistic for a sixteen-year-old typist coming up to exams.

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Doorway Online does not collect any information about users.

Text Type 3 stores the results from a user's last session on the computer it is accessed from, but we cannot see that data.

We use Google Analytics to give us usage figures for our activities. This is anonymised data that allows us to see which countries users are accessing our site from, which activities they access and allows us to check for bandwidth issues. It is not possible for us to identify a school or an individual user. We also get anonymised data from Google ads. These adverts are usually blocked in schools.

If you communicate with us by emailing [email protected], our mail server may store your email address. However, we will not use this address to communicate with you except regarding the issue you contacted us about. Your email address will be shared with no other organisation.
Email addresses will be deleted from our mail server when we no longer require them and in any case, two years after our last contact with you. You may send an email to that address asking for your emails and email address to be deleted.

A teacher in East Lothian has made up some very useful record sheets for students to keep track of their progress through the Speller levels. He has been generous in making them available to all.

They are in a compressed zip file which you may have to open using WinZip.

Thanks again to Darren Donnelly, PT Support For Learning, Musselburgh Grammar School for compiling these word lists.

The off-line version of Doorway activities for Windows PCs or laptops which had poor or no internet access has been the Doorway Activity Pack CD. This installs the activities onto your hard disc, server or pen-drive. Typically these were licensed by a school or LEA. We are no longer charging for this, beyond the costs of materials and copying.

We will be making the Doorway Activities freely downloadable. We must thank those authorities that licensed the Doorway Activity Pack CD when we started up. Those licence fees kept us going when finances were terribly tight. Now, it makes sense to make them freely available.
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Multiplication.com is the leading resource for helping kids learn the times tables and multiplication facts. Play free multiplication games, take auto-scored quizzes, drill flashcards, and access worksheets.

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Phonics Worksheets and Teaching Resource Collections

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Download free, printable phonics worksheets and activities on a variety of topics such as consonant digraphs, CVC words, and r-controlled vowels.

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This is a collection of free, printable creative writing prompts for teaching ESL.

Creative Writing Prompts

These creative writing worksheets can can be used both in class or as weekly homework assignments. We are always looking for more contributions so if you have an idea please send it to us. Eventually all of the story starters will be turned into worksheets and posted here.

Sports Creative Writing

Christmas Creative Writing

Fall and Halloween Creatie Writing

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A collection of free, printable worksheets on the theme of winter.

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Welcome to Tlsbooks.com!

Tlsbooks offers you a variety of free printable worksheets to use at home or in the classroom. You'll find thousands of worksheets appropriate for students in preschool through sixth grade. These educational worksheets may be used to supplement your early childhood education program, home day care resources, elementary school classroom, or home school curriculum.

Parents love using these free worksheets to help their child gain valuable readiness skills or to reinforce material their child may already be learning in school. Teachers appreciate the fact that they can print complementary materials to use in the classroom, for homework, or as extra practice for struggling students.

Along with these unique educational worksheets you'll discover fun coloring pages, a variety of print-ready teacher resources, puzzles, and reading tips. Although our Terms of Use prohibits the saving of worksheets, you are welcome to return at any time to print material that you may need.

All of the materials found on this site may be printed for your own personal (includes printing materials for your classroom), non-commercial use. The educational materials found on this site may not be hosted on any other web site, blog, forum, etc. Please be familiar with these Terms of Use before using any materials from this site.

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Welcome to Tlsbooks.com! Tlsbooks offers you a variety of free printable worksheets to use at home or in the classroom. You'll find thousands of worksheets appropriate for students in preschool through sixth grade. These educational worksheets may be used to supplement your early childhood education program, home day care resources, elementary school classroom, or home school curriculum.

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Worksheets for all areas of the curriculum

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Worksheets for all areas of the curriculum

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Check out all of our free printable worksheets! These worksheets are perfect for any teacher, parent, homeschooler or other caregiver who is looking for fun and educational activities to do with their kids. We have lots of holiday worksheets, seasonal worksheets, animal worksheets and more. Make sure to check out all of our learning worksheets dealing with subjects like reading, writing, math as well as the alphabet, numbers, colors, shapes and more.

Seasonal Worksheets for Kids

Check out our worksheets that are themed for each of the seasons below. These seasonal collections include worksheets for practicing skills like matching, counting, spelling and more!

Kids Holiday Worksheets

This is our section of holiday worksheets. We are working on creating a set of worksheets for each holiday, so take a look at the ones we already have below. Whether you are a teacher or parent, we have different fun and educational worksheets for each holiday that you can print and use with your kids.

Animal Worksheets

We have recently started creating animal worksheets (to go with some of new animal crafts we have been doing). Below are the first sets of free animal worksheets we have created. They include lots of fun and educational activities for kids to do. Perfect for parents or teachers and totally free!

Worksheets by Subject

Below is a listing of some of our high level subjects or topics. We have thousands of free worksheets underneath these main subjects, so please click into them to see all the sub categories of each we have.

More Worksheet Topics

Below are some more of our printable educational worksheets for kids for you to choose from. Please make sure to check back often as we are always adding new worksheets to our websites.

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Printable kids worksheets. We have hundreds of free worksheets parents, teachers, homeschoolers or other caregivers to use with kids. We have worksheets for holidays, seasons, animals and lots of worksheets for learning the alphabet, numbers, colors, shapes and much more! Visit All Kids Network to check out all of our free printable worksheets for kids.

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Test your math skills! Ace that test! See how far you can get!
You can view them on-screen, and then print them, with or without answers.

Every worksheet has thousands of variations,
so you need never run out of practice material.

Choose your Subject !

* Note: the worksheet variation number is not printed with the worksheet on purpose so others cannot simply look up the answers. If you want the answers, either bookmark the worksheet or print the answers straight away.

Also! Our forum members have put together a collection of Math Exercises.

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Test your math skills! Ace that test! See how far you can get! You can view them on-screen, and then print them, with or without answers. Every worksheet has thousands of variations, so you need never run out of practice material.

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Make 1000s of FREE Math Worksheets!

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The Math Worksheet Wizard is a FREE resource for teachers and homeschooling moms and dads. You can make an unlimited number of printable math worksheets for children, for the classroom or for homework, simply by clicking a button. What makes this site unique is that every time you create a worksheet, you get different, randomly generated problems.

New worksheet wizards are being added all the time, and so far, there are enough to cover the curriculum for kindergarten through most of fifth grade.

Make math worksheets for your kids with these addition, subtraction, multiplication and division wizards. Each time you create a worksheet, you'll get different problems for your children to solve! You can choose the difficulty level of each sheet, as well as the number of problems you want on the worksheet. For younger children, try the horizontal math worksheet wizard! Make arithmetic worksheets!

Make colorful and engaging math worksheets for your Kindergarten or Reception Year children. The worksheet wizards are divided into categories such as numbers, colors, shapes and money, and each wizard creates a unique worksheet every time. Create counting and match-up activities, touch worksheets, bingo, board games, and lots, lots more!

The first grade math wizards offering a challenging step up from those at the kindergarten level. Your students can try arithmetic worksheets that step up in difficulty with each wizard you use, number worksheets that teach your children all the numbers to 30, and time and money worksheets, too.

Make some math forms and charts for your children to use in any kind of situation. Create surveys, charts for recording estimates, sheets with math problems, or tables for comparing items in a measurement unit. Each wizard gives you a host of options for customizing your worksheets. Make math forms!

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Make Math Worksheets! " Math Worksheet Wizard

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No registration needed! Just print and go! The Math Worksheet Wizard is a FREE resource for teachers and homeschooling moms and dads. You can make an unlimited number of printable math worksheets for children, for the classroom or for homework, simply by clicking a button.

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Teacher Printables Interactives

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Teacher Printables Interactives Create a customized resource with just a few words and a few clicks. Pick a template. Enter your content. Print out your activities or play on a screen. Select a template to learn more

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Gathering Evidence for SSE

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This section of the website should be used in conjunction with Chapter Five of the SSE Guidelines. This page contains sample resources to support schools as they gather evidence during the investigation phase of their SSE process. A core principle of the SSE process is that it is based on evidence.

Ahead of any evidence collection, schools should clearly define the focus of the evaluation. Looking at Our School 2016 will help schools to use particular standards to focus their evidence collection. It is important not to gather too much evidence or evidence that is not relevant to the focus of the evaluation.

Chapter Five explores the evaluation approaches that a school might take. It identifies the following evaluation tools. Each links to a section with information about the tool and some sample tools that might be used by a school in an evaluation.

Below all of the resources have been organised into three categories, evidence from teachers, students, parents, and other sources. Schools should treat these resources as samples and should adapt them as necessary to reflect their own context and the focus of their evaluation.
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Gathering Evidence | School Self-Evaluation

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This section of the website should be used in conjunction with Chapter Five of the SSE Guidelines. This page contains sample resources to support schools as they gather evidence during the investigation phase of their SSE process. A core principle of the SSE process is that it is based on evidence.

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Badge Makers
Badgemaker (at Classtools.net)

Bingo Card Makers
Bingo Baker
Bingo Card Creator (at Sight Words.com)
Bingo Card Game Maker (at Classtools.net)
Bingo Card Maker (at Flippity)
Make Your Own Bingo Cards
My Free Bingo Cards

Calendar Makers
Calendar Labs
Calendarpedia
Calendars Quick
Calendars That Work
Canva Calendars
ePrintable Calendars
Free Online PDF Calendars
PDF Calendar

Certificate Makers
Banners And Awards
Classtools Certificate Generator
Kids Certs
123 Certificates

Colouring Sheet Creators
Twisty Noodle Colouring Pages

Crossword Creators
Criss Cross Puzzlemaker (at Discovery Eduction)
Crossword Generator (at Edupics)
Crossword Labs (PDF or Electronic Puzzle)
Crossword Puzzle Maker (at Armoured Penguin)
Crossword Puzzle Maker (at Teachers' Corner)
Instant Crossword Maker

Wordsearch Generators
Free Wordsearch
Word Plays Word Search Maker
Word Search Generator (at Education.com)
Word Search Puzzlemaker (at Discovery Eduction)

Wordshapes
Word Shapes Worksheets (at A-Z Teacher Stuff)

Dice/Cube Makers
Dice Maker (at SEN Teacher)
Dice Maker (at Tools for Educators)

Flashcard Makers
A+ Math Flashcard Creator
Flash Card Printer (at SEN Teacher)
Peekovers
Use Wayback Machine to recover Peekovers site
Sight Words Flash Card Maker
Word Workshop (at Scholastic)

Label Makers
Acme Label Maker
Canva Labels Maker
Word Workshop (at Scholastic)

Loop Game Card Makers
Loop Card Set Generator
Math Follow Me Cards Generator

Map Creation Tools
Google My Maps
Map Fab (Custom Map Maker)
Map Fling (Create and Share Customised Maps)
Map Hub (Create Customised Maps)
Map Maker Interactive (at National Geographic)
Owl & Mouse Megamaps (Make Maps from 30-200cm)
Scribble Maps
Zee Maps

Graphic Organisers
Graphic Organisers (at Canva.com)
Holt Interactive Graphic Organisers

Paper Design Tools
Amazing Handwriting Worksheets
Blank Sheet Music
Dynamic Paper (at Illuminations)
Free Graph Paper (at Incompetech)
Graph Paper at Math Drills.Com
Griddzly (Make Your Own Grid Paper)
Handwriting Practice Pro
Handwriting Worksheet Maker (at A to Z Teacher)
Maze Generator
Paper Kit (Customised Graph Paper)
Print Free Graph Paper

Customisable Templates
Canva Templates For Education
Google Docs Templates for Teachers
Google Forms Templates (at Ditch That Textbook)
Slidesmania (Templates for PowerPoint and Google Slides)

Timeline Makers
Canva Timeline Infographic Maker
eStory
Preceden
Read Write Think Timeline Maker
Tiki-Toki
Time Glider (now 'Preceden')
Time Graphics Timeline Editor
Timeline JS
Timeliner (at Classtools.net)
Time Toast
Wikipedia Timeline Generator (at Classtools.net)

Display Generators
Block Posters (Giant Poster Printing Tool)
Canva Poster Maker
Crello
Custom Chore Chart (at DLTK)
Design Cap (Poster Maker)
Gzaas! (Create full screen messages)
Instant Display (Giant lettering and more)
Postermaker.com
Quotes Cover
Quozio (Use quotes to make posters)
Visual Supports Maker (at Connectability)

Customisable Clipart
Coco Material (Hand-drawn Customisable Illustrations)
Storyset (Free customisable illustrations)
UnDraw (Clipart with Customisble Colour)

Word Cloud Makers
ABCya Word Clouds for Kids
Answer Garden
Edwordle (Word Cloud Editing Tool)
Free Word Cloud Generator
Kotobana (Word Flowers)
TagCrowd
Tagul (now called 'Word Art')
Tagxedo
To Cloud
Typo Effects
Word Art (formerly 'Tagul')
Word Cloud (by Jason Davies)
Word Clouds.com
Word It Out
WordSift
Word Wanderer

Dynamic Text Creators
Bart's Blackboard
Breaking News Generator (at Class Tools)
Break Your Own News
Dr. Seuss Speech Bubble Generator
Einstein's Blackboard (at Dynamic Images)
Make Your Own ID Cards
Microsoft Newsletter Templates
Newspaper Article Generator
Newspaper Headline Generator
Text Generators (at RedKid.net)

Infographic Makers
Adobe Express Free Infographic Maker
Canva Infographic Maker
Easel.ly
Piktochart

Differentiated Text Generators
Reading Passage Generator (with reading level customisation)

Worksheet Generators
Canva Worksheet Templates
Catpin Bubble Test Generator
Codemaker (at Classtools.net)
Double Puzzle Maker (at Busy Teacher)
Make Clocks (at SEN Teacher)
Math-Aids (Dynamically Created Math Worksheets)
Math Fact Cafe
Math Homework Generator
Math Squares Puzzle Maker (at Discovery Education)
Math Worksheet Generator (at Turtle Diary)
The Math Worksheet Site
Puzzlefast
Reading Worksheet Generator (at Turtle Diary)
Secret Code Message Generator (Printable)
Secret Message (Printable)
Superkids Maths Worksheet Maker
Test Maker (at Help Teaching)
Twisty Noodle Worksheets
Word Scramble Maker (at Busy Teacher)
Word Workshop - Vocab Quiz Maker (at Scholastic)
Worksheet Generator (at Maths Bot)
Worksheet Genius
Worksheet Works

Gaeilge
Gaeilge - Fearas agus Acmhainn agsla (ag Seomra Ranga)
Gaeilge - Pstaeir (ag Seomra Ranga)

Teacher Tool Collections
Armored Penguin
A to Z Teacher Stuff
Big Huge Labs
Brenden is Teaching
Busy Teacher
Canva
Classtools.Net
Discovery Education's Puzzlemaker
DLTK Customisable Printables
Early Learning HQ - Editable Resources
Ed Helper
Education World
Knowt
Intervention Central
Personal Educational Press
Printable Creative
Pro Profs
QUIA (not free)
Scholastic
SEN Teacher
Super Teacher Tools (Millionaire, Jeopardy, etc.)
Teacher Files
Teachnology
Tools for Educators
Word Mint

Also available for iPad

Tools to Download
Hot Potatoes

Non-Customisable Resources
Background Paper (at Teacher Files)
Chart Jungle
Grammar Check Infographics
Lined Pages (at Seomra Ranga)
Math Worksheets (at Math-Drills.com)
Padlet Backgrounds
Paper Zip (Teaching Resources for Primary)
Pattern Blocks
Seomra Ranga
Teachers Printables

Electronic Activity/Game Makers
Answer Garden
Arcade Game Generator (at Classtools.net)
Art Colouring Book (at Google Arts & Culture)
Blooket (Activity Maker)
Canva (Signup reqd.)
Cloze Quiz Generator (at Classtools.net)
- Cloze Quiz Generator Example
Cloze Test Generator
Connections Game Maker
- Connections Game Example
Countdown-style Numbers Game
Crossword Generator (at Classtools.Net)
- Crossword Generator Example
Crossword Labs (Electronic Crossword Generator)
- Crossword Labs Example
Custom Wordle (Make Custom Wordle Game)
Doozy (Quiz maker)
EdPuzzle (sign-up reqd.)
Educandy (Game Maker)
- Educandy Example
Educaplay (sign-up reqd.)
e Quiz Show
Exit Poll (at Classroom Screen New Version)
Factile (Formerly 'Jeopardy Rocks') - Jeopardy Game Maker
Fling The Teacher (Millionaire-type Game)
- Fling The Teacher Example
Flippity (Make Games from Google Spreadsheets)
Game On World (Geography Game Maker)
Hangman (Make Your Own)
- Hangman Example (Irish Cities and Towns)
Hexagon Activity Generator (at Classtools.net)
Image Quiz (Picture Quiz Maker)
- Image Quiz Example
Image Reveal (at Classtools.net)
- Image Reveal Example
Interactive Crossword Puzzle Maker (at ABCya)
Interacty (Interctive Content Maker)
Jeopardy Labs (Jeopardy Game Maker)
Kahoot (Student Response System)
Learn Click (Cloze Test Maker)
Learning Apps - Free Interactive Game Maker (sign-up reqd.)
- Learning Apps Example (with Pictures)
- Learning Apps Example (with Sounds)
Make Your Own Manipulatives (at Flippity)
- Make Your Own Manipulatives Example
Matching Game Maker (at Flippity)
Math Electronic Worksheet Generator
Mentimeter (Interact with Your Audience)
Mission Map Quest (at Classtools.net)
Pac-Man Game Maker (at Classtools.net)
- Pacman Example
Pro Profs Brain Games
Pro Profs Quiz Maker
Quizalize (Classroom Response System)
Quizbusters
Quizizz
Quizlet
Quiz Maker
Quiz Game Master
Scratch (Make your own puzzle or game)
Slidesmania (Interactive PowerPoint Activity Templates)
Snowman - Hangman-style Game Maker (at Flippity)
- Snowman Example (Cork Towns)
Socrative (Engagement and Assessment Tool)
Solve Me Puzzles
Speedmatch (at Super Teacher Tools)
- Speedmatch Example
Sporcle
Spelling Frame
Sudoku Generator and Solver
Tablestest
Testmoz (Test Generator)
&nbsp - Testmoz Example
Textivate
That Quiz
Thing Link (Add interactive annotations to images)
- Thing Link Example
Tiny Tap (Game Maker)
Vortex - Drag & Drop Sorting Game (at Classtools.Net)
- Vortex Example
Wizer.me - Worksheet Maker (Signup Reqd.)
- Wizer Me Example
Word Master (Wordle-style Game Maker)
Word Rodeo (Wordle-style Game Maker)
Word Search Labs (Electronic Wordsearch Maker)
- Word Search Labs Example
Word Wall (Signup Reqd.)
- Word Wall Example (English)
- Word Wall Example (Geography)

Electronic Jigsaw Makers
Jigsaw Explorer
- Jigsaw Explorer Example
Daily Jigsaw Puzzles
I'm A Puzzle
- I'm A Puzzle Example
Jigsaw Planet
- Jigsaw Planet Example
The Jigsaw Puzzles
Puzzle Party (Make collaborative jigsaws)

Word Lists
Copy Paste List (Find list for your project)

Updated: 20 March 2024

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Canva is a free-to-use online graphic design tool. Use it to create social media posts, presentations, posters, videos, logos and more.

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Language assessment, characteristics etc

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Members of the National Council for Special Education

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Vocab lessons for EAL Children

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This is a resource which teachers can use to inform the planning for, monitoring and evaluation of students' functional language and communication development. It can be used to support other relevant language programmes, or to assist with differentiation for individual students.

This resource was adapted from the NCCA Primary Gaeilge curriculum (1999). It focuses on the promotion and development of key functional social communication and language skills. SESS would like to acknowledge the Mid-West School for the Deaf, Limerick, who developed and piloted this resource, as well as Holy Family School for the Deaf, Cabra, Dublin. It may be useful for teachers working with students who use different modes of communication including PECS, Lámh, Irish Sign Language (ISL) and Sign Supported English (SSE). It may also be a useful resource for teachers working with students in a variety of school settings who have special educational needs, and may need an adapted language and communication focus to access the curriculum.

It is presented in eight levels. Each level outlines key language functions in a sequential format. These include social interaction, conversation, seeking and giving opinions and information. Learner outcomes and an overview of key vocabulary are presented at each level.

A student checklist and a teacher planning and monitoring checklist are included for each level.

Each level is structured as follows:

1. Student Checklist

2. Teacher Planning and Monitoring Checklist

3. Key Vocabulary Guide

Click on the links below to access material within each of the levels

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SESS Functional Language and Communication Resource

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This is a resource which teachers can use to inform the planning for, monitoring and evaluation of students' functional language and communication development. It can be used to support other relevant language programmes, or to assist with differentiation for individual students. This resource was adapted from the NCCA Primary Gaeilge curriculum (1999).

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Choosing what to put in e-portfolio