In an effort to provide our families with resources to help keep our students academically engaged, I have compiled some of my favorite go-to sites that are interactive and that provide some practice in the areas of reading and language arts.
Please keep the link to this newsletter handy as this will be a working document that I may continuously update with additional resources.
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-Ms. de los Santos
How to Access Sora
Accessing Sora on a personal computer:
All students have access to Sora via their NISD student portal on the tile titled "Sora".
To access Northside's Sora without logging in to a students NISD portal on a personal computer click on the following link below. Students will need to log-on by selecting the option of "I have a setup code" found at the bottom of the launching page. Students will have to enter the setup code (see below). Once setup code is entered students will be asked to sign in using their student username. Student usernames are the student I.D. #'s. See below for sample.
Sora Link: https://soraapp.com/welcome
The set up code is: johnpaulstevens
Username=Student I.D. # with an s in front (Example: s123456)
Using Sora via an App:
Search and download the Sora App to your mobile device. After downloading the Sora app to your mobile device, students will need to log-on by selecting the option of "I have a setup code" found at the bottom of the launching page. Students will have to enter the setup code (see below). Once setup code is entered students will be asked to sign in using their student username. Student usernames are the student I.D. #'s. See below for sample.
The set up code is: johnpaulstevens
Username=Student I.D. # with an s in front (Example: s123456)
Username: burkenisd
Password: read
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Storyline Online Storyline Online is a children's literacy website created by the SAG-AFTRA Foundation, which provides free storytelling videos and resources for parents and teachers to foster a love of reading in children. | Scholastic Learn At HomeScholastic Learn at Home is offering this free resource for 20 days of exciting articles and stories, videos, and fun learning challenges. Children can complete them anytime, in any order. They can work on their own or together as a family. It will provide your child with up to 3 hrs worth of exciting learning experiences per day. | Squiggle Park A site that allows learners to practice letter names and continuant sounds as well as vowels. |
Storyline Online
Scholastic Learn At Home
Scholastic Learn at Home is offering this free resource for 20 days of exciting articles and stories, videos, and fun learning challenges. Children can complete them anytime, in any order. They can work on their own or together as a family. It will provide your child with up to 3 hrs worth of exciting learning experiences per day.
Squiggle Park
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Raz KidsRaz-Kids is an award-winning teaching product that provides comprehensive leveled reading resources for students. Every eBook is available in online and mobile formats, and allows students to listen to, read at their own pace, and record themselves reading. Sign up for a free "homeschooling" trial by clicking link below. | Starfall Starfall.com is a powerful tool that provides hours and hours of engaging educational content for pre-school and grade school kids. It uses animation and sound to engage children in the learning process. At Starfall, children have fun while they learn - specializing in reading, phonics & math - educational games, movies, books, songs, and more for children K-3. | Highlights Kids Read, play games, and even conduct science experiments on Highlights Kids. To get started simply go to the following website: |
Raz Kids
Raz-Kids is an award-winning teaching product that provides comprehensive leveled reading resources for students. Every eBook is available in online and mobile formats, and allows students to listen to, read at their own pace, and record themselves reading. Sign up for a free "homeschooling" trial by clicking link below.
Starfall
Highlights Kids
Highlights Kids. To get started simply go to the following website:
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Into the Book Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for elementary students and teachers. They focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. To use simply visit the following website and click on the students button tab at the top right hand corner of the webpage. | Fun Brain Fun Brain offers hundreds of games, books, comics, and videos that develop skills in reading, literacy, math, and problem solving. | PBS Kids Enjoy learning and playing with some of your favorite book characters on this engaging and interactive site. |
Into the Book
Fun Brain
PBS Kids
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Seussville The Cat in the Hat, Sam-I-Am, Horton and the Whos, and the rest of the Seuss characters welcome you to Seussville, Dr. Seuss’s playground in cyberspace. You can play games, chat with the Cat in the Hat, win prizes, find out about new Dr. Seuss books and CD-ROMs, and much, much more! To join the fun simply click on the link below: | Pebble Go Pebble Go is full of information, articles, and literacy supports for students of all abilities. It has a wide range of subjects like animals, biographies, science and social studies. Available in English and Spanish. Log-in information below: Username: burknisd (no "e" in Burke) Password: research | BrainPop BrainPop is an animated educational site that has Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Arts & Music, Health, and Technology movies that are very engaging for students. Log-in information below: BrainPop can be accessed through the NISD student portal. |
Seussville
Pebble Go
Username: burknisd (no "e" in Burke)
Password: research
BrainPop
BrainPop can be accessed through the NISD student portal.
Ms. de los Santos
