The Best Educational Freebies For Homeschoolers and Teachers

Freebies from All Info About Reading and the Learning Nook

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Free Sample of the Parents' Guide to Reading!

The Parents' Guide to Reading is a duplicate-able newsletter that's perfect for teachers or care providers to share with parents. It's full of ideas about helping kids improve reading through practice at home, and even includes information about how reading is learned. Get your free sample right here, and if you're interested, you can purchase the rest of the set so you have new issues to pass out whenever you want.

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!

Free Word Search Puzzle Generators

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.

Math Freebies

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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.

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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.

Homeschool Core Curriculum - Lets Homeschool

Every homeschool has to have a homeschool core curriculum. This article has information on what core curriculum is and homeschool core curriculum vs. college prep curriculum. Keep reading for more information on homeschool core curriculum.