The Best Educational Freebies For Homeschoolers and Teachers
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I'm a teacher, and I KNOW how we all search for free items. We want the best for our kids, and we need to gather materials on a shoestring. Families and school districts always have a very limited budget, and finding freebies can really help stretch those dollars. Whether you are a classroom teacher, a homeschooler, or a parent who needs to help one of your favorite kids, you'll want to check out these things I've found on the internet.
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- Free Short Vowel Worksheets
- Most beginning readers need to practice seeing patterns in words. Check out these handy worksheets that focus on the five short vowels.
- Fluency Assessment Word Lists
- Research is confirming the importance of fluency with sight words. If you work with beginning or struggling readers, save yourself some effort! Download these Dolch words already set up on a handy form for evaluation.
- Sharing a Story Free Sample
- Know any preschoolers or kindergarteners? Here are some great ideas to preview, engage and extend some classic children's books as you read to your children.
- Free Context Clues Worksheets
- Help students learn to understand what they read by figuring out unknown words from context. There's even a lesson plan to go with the worksheets.
- Free Inference Practice Worksheets
- Making inferences is one of the toughest comprehension skills. Now you can help your children practice easy, basic inferences from single sentences to get them started learning about this important skill.
- Free Nurturing Your Young Reader Workshop
- Parents, care givers, and anyone who works with young children will want to pop into this free, 12-session class on raising a reader. There's great information about the development of the reading process, and class includes over 40 game and activity ideas to use with your child(ren).
- Free (for a limited time) Book Report Workshop
- Check out my newest class-the Book Report Workshop! This class will cost $50 in the near future, but for a limited time, I'm offering it to you for FREE! Sign Up Today!
Why Freebies?
The internet and a few other places offer some great resources for free. All that's missing is a way to find them efficiently. Few of us have the time and energy to actively seek out this information, so this site will help you find a few more!
Education is vital to success in our modern world. Everyone has a right to the best education possible. Whether you are homeschooling or using the public or private education system, whether you are parent, teacher or student, you can find free resources to help with teaching, learning, practice, and understanding. Add this site to your favorites, visit often, and support the sites that are listed by visiting them.
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Education is vital to success in our modern world. Everyone has a right to the best education possible. Whether you are homeschooling or using the public or private education system, whether you are parent, teacher or student, you can find free resources to help with teaching, learning, practice, and understanding. Add this site to your favorites, visit often, and support the sites that are listed by visiting them.
See you again soon!
Free Word Search Puzzle Generators
Need to create your own word search puzzles? Here are some wonderful sites:
- A Whole LIst of Links!
- Here's a selection of online generators. Let me know what you think!
- From Soft Schools.com
- Control font size, complexity, and more with this version.
- Free Puzzles.net
- There's a generator here, and also a host of ready-made word lists for lots of subjects and levels.
Motivational Writing Activity
Get your kids doing some meaningful and fun writing
Everyone loves freebies, and kids are no exception. When you visit the bookstore next time, check the children's section for books of free things that kids can send away for. These collections are published annually, and contain info about companies that give away promotional or educational items that are free or very minimal cost, including stickers, videos, and small toys. Have your child choose one and send a good business letter to the company to request the freebie. Not only will your student get the practice of writing a good letter, he or she will also be rewarded with a fun freebie. Give it a try!
Reading and Writing Activities!
Check out these samples from Merit Software.
If you have a younger reader, you'll want to visit Free Reading.net. There are literally TONS of activities and worksheets, all waiting for you to print or download for free. It's a real gold mine!
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Merit Software has a generous trial program-you can try online versions of their paragraph writing, essay writing and book response software for free! Visit these links today:
Paragraph Punch will guide your students through writing a good paragraph with online prompts and encouragement.
Essay Punch will have the older students producing classic five-paragraph essays.
Book Punch delivers full-fledged lesson plans for students of all age levels reading some common titles from children's literature.
Whether you are a parent, a home schooler or a teacher, you'll want to check out this trio of fabulous freebies!
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Merit Software has a generous trial program-you can try online versions of their paragraph writing, essay writing and book response software for free! Visit these links today:
Paragraph Punch will guide your students through writing a good paragraph with online prompts and encouragement.
Essay Punch will have the older students producing classic five-paragraph essays.
Book Punch delivers full-fledged lesson plans for students of all age levels reading some common titles from children's literature.
Whether you are a parent, a home schooler or a teacher, you'll want to check out this trio of fabulous freebies!
Math Freebies
Check out these free resources...
- Free Math Worksheets
- Generate some great worksheets (an infinite number) to help kids practice elementary math-addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, and so forth. A must-see for those working with children who need extra practice.
- More worksheets
- This one is nice because it has a large-print option. There are several forms of each level offered.
- do-it-yourself worksheets
- Here's a super link-set the parameters and format that you want for your worksheet, and this one will generate as many randomized practice sheets as you want! You can adjust the font size and number of problems per page, which is a godsend for students with special needs.
Check out these freebies!
- Free Graphic Organizers!
- Check out this collection of printable graphic organizers-great for helping students with writing and study skills.
- Free Worksheet Creator
- You can make math or wordsearch worksheets to solve on paper or online. Check it out!
- Eclipse Crosswords
- Check out this free downloadable crossword creator! You can easily enter your own words and clues, and the software does the rest, right on down to a printable puzzle or one to put on a website.
- Primary Resources
- Check out the great lesson plans, reproducibles, and activity ideas! This is a fabulous resource.
- Free Lesson Plans
- Here are thousands of free lesson plans crossing every curriculum area.
- Online Writing Lab at Purdue
- What a resource! Here are bite-sized lessons about nearly every point of writing, from grammar and paragraph construction on up to info about how to write college-level and professional pieces. And best of all, it's FREE!
- Online Spelling Program
- Teaching spelling is easy with SpellingCity.com. Input spelling lists for your students to use for free spelling help. Students can learn spelling words, practice spelling tests, and play fun spelling games. Keep track of your spelling list curriculum, share spelling lists, and get ideas for teaching!
Great for Homeschoolers!
- Starfall Early Reading
- Looking for some supplemental reading material? Check this one out right away!
- 5000 Free Books!
- What a find! Here are 5000 FREE ebook titles that include some great children's classics, like Alice in Wonderland and A Christmas Carol. Perfect for homeschoolers on a budget.
- ABC Teach
- Here are tons of free worksheets for all levels and subjects. Check it out!
- Hippocampus
- This site is a wonder for high school students! You'll find tutorials and textbook help, as well as practice exercises for high school level algebra, calculus, US government, biology, physics, religion and history. It's the perfect place to find help with those tough courses.
- Donna Young.org
- Here's an eclectic mix of homeschool info, advice, and even free printable activities and organizers. You're going to love it!
- Free Memory Improvement E-book
- Want to boost the grade power? No matter how old you or your student are, you'll find ways to improve test taking skills, study habits and more in this free e-book.
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- JoyfulPamela JoyfulPamela Nov 7, 2009 @ 1:26 pm
- Thank you for the listing of free educational supplies!
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- Donnette Donnette Apr 13, 2009 @ 7:54 am
- What an outstanding resource for professional teachers and homeschoolers. Thank you so much for sharing. 5* and favourite! :D xx
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- JulieS JulieS Nov 8, 2008 @ 6:53 pm
- Yours is a very helpful lens. In these bad economic times we all need this information. Recycling homeschool curriculum by finding used curriculum at sites like
Used Homeschool Curriculum is another way to save money.
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- San1 San1 Oct 18, 2008 @ 10:43 am
- Really liked your lens; 5 stars.
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- Stevan Stevan Sep 15, 2008 @ 4:55 pm
- Hi,
Just visited your site after searching through Google and decide to write as I feel your visitors would appreciate seeing resources from my site.
My site has products for sale but I also give out lots of free stuff to teachers. On this page you will actually find free materials to download, including a totally free book of Classroom Timesavers which has been extremely well accepted by teachers.
Site URL: http://www.timesaversforteachers.com/ and the freebies area: http://www.timesaversforteachers.com/index_page0002.htm
All samples are free also. Here is additional information about the site:
Title: TIMESAVERS for TEACHERS.com
URL: http://www.timesaversforteachers.com
Thanks for your time.
Stevan
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