- Rilke Schule German Charter School of Arts & Sciences
- Supplemental Resources
English-Reading Resources
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https://www.lexiacore5.com/register
Lexia Reading
https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome.html
Scholastic Learn at Home
Brain Pop. Videos. Kids’ favorite.
Online articles about current events leveled to different Lexia levels.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Student Center Activities for use in kindergarten through fifth grade.
Published by the SAG-AFTRA Foundation, Storyline Online is an excellent resource for children with learning disabilities like dyslexia. This website records free videos of narrators, and sometimes well-known actors like Eva Longoria, reading children’s books aloud. Students develop their literacy skills by following along with text as the literature comes alive.
The Wisconsin Media Lab created the Into the Book! website to provide engaging reading comprehension activities in English and Spanish. Elementary children with learning disabilities will benefit from dissecting books, such as The Wolf Who Cried Boy and A Pirate’s Life. Short, 15-minute videos are included to teach important reading strategies like visualization and summarizing.
Launched in 2002 by the Polis-Schutz family, Starfall is a free educational website with an optional low-cost membership program that teaches phonics. Young children diagnosed with learning disabilities will load fun activity lessons from letter recognition to reading full-length books. Students can also download swinging sing-alongs, including “Wheels on the Bus,” for fine-motor coordination.
Attracting over 11 million views monthly, Do2Learn is an unparalleled special needs resource website started in 1996 through a NIH Small Business Innovation Research grant. Learning disabled youth access thousands of free elementary-level worksheets for literacy, math, visual discrimination, behavior management, and more. There are also printable picture cards available to promote functional communication in children with Autism.
Featured on PBS, Reading Rockets is a David M. Rubenstein Prize-winning website devoted to providing research-based activities that help struggling readers. There is an extensive library of lessons centered on fluency, oral language, phonemic awareness, reading comprehension, and other literacy skills. Children can also incite their passion for reading with themed booklists, such “Young Detectives.”
Trusted by over 150,000 teachers, AdaptedMind was established by Stanford graduates for exercises that adapt to exceptional children’s needs. From first through eighth grade, students will discover hundreds of amusing reading and math activities illustrated by goofy monsters. Children will start with a quick pretest before engaging in video lessons and taking a confidence-boosting progress assessment.
An online educational video games hub that won an EdTech Magazine 2016 Cool Tool Award. Free, multi-player games are available for engaging students in tricky K-6 content from spelling to algebra and geography. Children with learning disabilities can compete for top scores while boosting their fact fluency. Plus, teachers or parents can access data tracking reports.
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English-Math Resources
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Math activities and lessons leveled by grade and math focus area.
Great for math facts memorization. You can set it to addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, or a combination.
Maths-Whizz is an award-winning online tutor, designed for 5-13yr olds, that boosts confidence and accelerates learning, helping your child to reach their potential in maths through educational online maths games. So, whether your child is struggling with maths, not feeling challenged at school, or you just want to give them a little extra support, Maths-Whizz is the perfect way to help your child with maths at home.
Brain Pop. Videos. Kids’ favorite.
Children diagnosed with dyscalculia will particularly benefit from AAA Math, a website filled with free, easy-to-understand K-8 mathematics lessons. Interactive pages help remove frustration from tough concepts like division, ratios, exponents, and graphing. Practice questions and fun games like Countdown give students’ instant feedback to prevent learning incorrect methods.
Launched in 2002 by the Polis-Schutz family, Starfall is a free educational website with an optional low-cost membership program that teaches phonics. Young children diagnosed with learning disabilities will load fun activity lessons from letter recognition to reading full-length books. Students can also download swinging sing-alongs, including “Wheels on the Bus,” for fine-motor coordination.
Children with learning disabilities and a knack for science will enjoy The Exploratorium, a website that brings the San Francisco museum to your desktop. Youth can scroll through 55 pages of educational videos to illustrate key topics like climate change, electricity, and human anatomy. Also download the Total Solar Eclipse app to prepare for the upcoming astronomical event on August 21, 2017.
Attracting over 11 million views monthly, Do2Learn is an unparalleled special needs resource website started in 1996 through a NIH Small Business Innovation Research grant. Learning disabled youth access thousands of free elementary-level worksheets for literacy, math, visual discrimination, behavior management, and more. There are also printable picture cards available to promote functional communication in children with Autism.
Trusted by over 150,000 teachers, AdaptedMind was established by Stanford graduates for exercises that adapt to exceptional children’s needs. From first through eighth grade, students will discover hundreds of amusing reading and math activities illustrated by goofy monsters. Children will start with a quick pretest before engaging in video lessons and taking a confidence-boosting progress assessment.
An online educational video games hub that won an EdTech Magazine 2016 Cool Tool Award. Free, multi-player games are available for engaging students in tricky K-6 content from spelling to algebra and geography. Children with learning disabilities can compete for top scores while boosting their fact fluency. Plus, teachers or parents can access data tracking reports.
German Resources
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Anton
Your child may have been working with this app already in school. Please ask your student first whether s/he is familiar with Anton, then check in with your teacher for login information. Not all teachers use this app and sign-up navigation is in German. A step-by-step English guide is not available, yet.
Resource for math, German, biology, music, science/social studies.
Grades: 1-10
Chillola
If you cannot access Anton at this point or your young student has not used Anton, this website is an easy to use platform to practice das Alphabet (alphabet), Zahlen (numbers), Formen (shapes), Tiere (animals), and so much more.
Select “Deutsch für Kinder” and click on any of the topics.
Grades: Pre - 2nd
http://chillola.com/public_html/at/german%20starter.html
Klaro
News for children delivered as podcasts. (audio only)
Grades: All
For younger audiences: Gute Nacht Geschichten (bedtime stories), such as Pumuckl offer 20 min episodes. Scroll down the site and below “neueste Episoden” you will find several stories from which to choose.
https://www.br.de/mediathek/podcast/pumuckl/830
Older kids may enjoy 3 to 10 minute news soundbites. Click on “Aktuelles & Politik” (current affairs & politics) to find a broad range of topics. “Familie” (family) will take you to “meistgehörte” (most often selected) bedtime stories. Or scroll down on the main page to “Neueste Episoden” to find a kid-friendly selection of news, i.e. Bavaria closes schools till the end of Easter break, volcano eruption in the Philippines, wildfires in Australia.
https://www.br.de/mediathek/podcast/klaro-nachrichten-fuer-kinder/631
Kleine Schule
Worksheets and online games. German only; however, the site is fairly intuitive. Great for practicing math in German.
Grades: Pre- to 4th grade (and anyone interested in reviewing math concepts)
“...die beliebtesten Seiten…” (favorite worksheets)
Mathe-Arbeitsblätter >>> Math worksheets: free, including “Lernkarten” (index cards) for grades 1 through 4.
Online Mathe Trainer (online math practice): choose your grade level and get started.
https://www.kleineschule.com.de/
Planet Schule
A website by German public radio stations designed to provide a broad variety of learning-related content while school is out in Germany. Audio and video content.
Grades: site navigation requires German language skills, but content is geared towards elementary school and up (Unterstufe - elementary grades , Mittelstufe - middle school , Oberstufe - high school level)
“Lernen zuhause - ausgewählte Angebote nach Altersstufen”. This will take you to an external link offering more elementary school - appropriate topics, such as Nature & Environment, Science & Technology, Culture & Travel. Please don’t be discouraged by the amount of information displayed. “Viel Spass beim Stöbern” - have fun exploring, there’s something for everyone.
Logo
News for kids. Short and sweet, subtitles available. Creators’ use of visual effects makes following along easy. New episodes every evening and at least one week’s worth of previous episodes are available on the website.
Grades: 2nd and up
Scroll down on main site to logo!-Sendungen and navigate to the right to select previous episodes, i.e. logo! am Sonntagabend , etc
https://www.zdf.de/kinder/logo/
Kinder-Uni
Science is your thing? You need to sign up for this page but this free forum offers “classes” in sciences, technology, and nature. Please select “DE” in the upper right hand corner as your preferred language.
Junge Musik
Fun interactive games about music: Want to conduct an entire orchestra? Then “dirigiere selbst”. Lots of quizzes and knowledge to impress Herr Downie or Herr Lindt with while you’re away from class.
https://www.junge-klassik.de/de/spielen#/
Mein Weg nach Deutschland
Erste Wege in Deutschland
We get to follow young adults as they are navigating their first steps in a new country. “Im Bus” (riding the bus), “Auf Arbeitssuche” (finding employment), “Neue Freunde” (new friends) are some of the discussion points that are shared.
https://www.goethe.de/prj/mwd/de/deu/mse/anl.html
Deutsche Welle
Variety of topics, organized by level A1, B2, etc.
English navigation, German content.
Grades: 3 and up
https://www.dw.com/en/learn-german/s-2469
