Learning and Educational Tools
Parents and professionals,
here are some links to websites that propose educational tools
that SPRINT and its members thought might be of interest to you:
Here are the quick jump links to the different sections on this page:
Resource Websites - Online Tools - Mobile Apps
Resource Websites
Teachers Pay Teachers
TeachersPayTeachers offers more than 3 million free and paid resources, created by educators who understand what works in the classroom. Each resource on TpT is created by a Teacher-Author and is tailored to a unique need or niche.
Website in English.
Twinkl
Their teacher-created resources provide entire schemes of work, lesson planning and assessments right through to online educational games and augmented reality. They have over 525,000 resources and new content gets added every day. They also tailor resources to a number of curriculums, including the UK National Curriculums, the USA Common Core and the French cycles (1,2 & 3).
Website in French and English.
Lessonpix
LessonPix is an online resource to make custom printable materials. You can use clip art or upload photos, choose the template with the Materials Wizard then generate a PDF file to print. It also offers tools to help you meet your specific needs, for example a library of target sounds and patterns or minimal pairs, grid formats and editing capacities.
Lessonpix is a paying service. Website in English only.
Your Therapy Source
An online resouce library for pediatric therapists, teachers and parents. They have resources in categories such as telehealth, handwriting, occupational therapy, physical therapy, seasonal activities, life skills, self-regulation and yoga.
Some content is free to use, but most is payable. Website in English.
UltimateSLP
Ultimate SLP is the ultimate library of speech therapy materials. With over 10,000 real life images, games, and activities to target every goal (Articulation, Language, Social Communication, and More).
There are free materials, but the full content needs a paying subscription to be accessed.
Website in English.
A website for Speech language pathologists that includes social skill videos, games, & worksheets.
Paid subscription to access all content. Website in English.
CAP école inclusive
Do you welcome students with special educational needs or with disabilities in your class? This site, designed by teachers and scientific experts, aims to support the educational community in the education of all students.
You will find observation tools to identify student difficulties, as well as suggestions and resources to adapt your teaching to everyone.
Website in French only. Made by the “Reseau Canopé”.
Picturebooks in European Primary English Language Teaching have provided 20 ‘ready-to-go’ Mini Picturebook e-Lessons, adding new ones every week.
They are lessons for children to complete with teachers and/or parents (carers) at home. They can also be used by teachers of key worker children learning in a classroom context. The lessons provide simple guidelines for children to watch and listen to a picturebook being read aloud by the author/illustrator themselves. The lessons are suitable for primary English language learners (ESL, EFL, EAL) and children will be able to: engage with picturebooks, develop their English language and especially their listening skills, find out and research interesting facts and information, and enjoy meeting and listening to the creator of the picturebook.
BBC Bitesize is a free online study support resource designed to help with learning, revision and homework.
“Bitesize provides support for learners aged 5 to 16+ across a wide range of school subjects. It also supports children and young people’s wellbeing and career choices. From April 20th Bitesize will be publishing daily lessons to help students across the UK with home schooling.
Bitesize guides are written by teachers and subject experts and are mapped to follow the curricula of the UK. Secondary Bitesize follows exam board specifications for the main exam boards in the UK, including for GCSE in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and National 4, National 5 & Highers in Scotland, ensuring students are preparing for the right exams.”
“Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. We tackle math, science, computing, history, art history, economics, and more, including K-14 and test preparation (SAT, Praxis, LSAT) content. We focus on skill mastery to help learners establish strong foundations, so there's no limit to what they can learn next! Education is a human right. We are a nonprofit because we believe in a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.”
Here at SPRINT we recommend the Grammar Course which offers English Grammar (and a Beta version for Reading Comprehension) from primary years and up.
The IXL Learning web service provides more than 7,000 skills across math, English language arts, science, Spanish, and social studies for students in grades preK-12. Skills and practice questions are aligned with Common Core and state standards, and are often used in conjunction with classroom learning and assignments. It is also available in various languages including French, American English, British English, Australian English, German and Japanese.
The service also includes IXL Analytics, which tracks classroom-wide as well as individual student performance; this provides teachers and parents with a range of nine data reports, and can be tailored to a variety of different classroom formats and setups. It also includes evaluations on six mathematics strands as well as their overall working grade level, as well as up-to-the-minute insights whenever students complete diagnostic questions each week and specific next-step instructions for students.
The Cned provides, on behalf of the State, the public service of distance education and the training of all those who wish it, whatever their age and their situation. The Cned offers multiple training courses, from kindergarten to university, as well as preparation for public service recruitment competitions, training in various trades. It offers complete classes and “à la carte” courses for elementary education, middle school, general, technological and vocational high school, as well as for the teaching of pupils in difficulty with special educational needs. In addition to normal schooling, the Cned offers support courses and exercises, summer courses and back-to-school preparation.
Only available in French.
Education.com is a digital learning program in English. “Our digital resources, tools, and learning materials are developed by educational experts to incorporate leading pedagogical practices. They are useful in any type of teaching moment and many can be used to support national education standards. We continue to provide academically sound content of the highest caliberand welcome input from our users as we address issues of equity, diversity, inclusivity and representation. Since we know there are many different approaches to teaching and education, we develop our materials to complement these different philosophies across subjects and grades.”
Boom Cards is a website with digital games and activities that teachers have created for students to use on tablets, online, and on SMARTboards.
“It is a workshop for learning : infinitely flexible, immediate in its feedback and engaging in its presentation. Teachers create rich, engaging self-grading lessons. Students play and get instant feedback. You can even create Boom Cards for your own learners, specific to what they need.”
Boom Cards is free but limited in usage; a paid account for extra materials is also proposed by the site.
Online Tools
WheelDecide
Wheel Decide is an online personalizable spinning wheel that makes desicion-making fun.
Free to use.
Google Jamboard
This is a collaborative, digital whiteboard which makes it easy to create without boundaries and share ideas in real time. Quickly pull in images from a Google search, save work to the cloud automatically, use the easy-to-read handwriting and shape recognition tool, and draw with a stylus but erase with your finger – just like a whiteboard. Plus, It’s easy to present your jams in real time through Meet, allowing for easy sharing or making real-world connections. Free to use.
Mobile Apps
Scannable by Evernote
An app that allows you to take photos of documents and turn them into PDF files, like a scanner. Only for Apple and iOS.
A free AAC talker app for Android which supports communication in all areas of life and therefore providing a voice to everyone. LetMeTalk enables you to line up images in a meaningful way to read this row of images as a sentence. To line up images is known as AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication). The image database of LetMeTalk contains more than 9,000 easy to understand images from ARASAAC. Additionally, you can add existing images from the device or take new photos with the build in camera.