Helpful Parent Links
Helpful Student Links
MATH
- Prodigy Game (an interactive online math
program that builds basic math skills and student confidence)
- Homework Help (free online math help resource
for students in Grades 7-10 - provides live one-on-one tutoring from
Ontario teachers; funded by the Ontario government and administered by
TVO's Independent Learning Centre)
- Nelson Math (Online website
support for parents for Nelson Mathematics from JK to grade 8)
- AAA Math (math website that features a
comprehensive set of interactive arithmetic lessons for JK to grade 8
students. Unlimited practice is available on each topic which allows a
thorough mastery of the concept)
- Coolmath (cool math games and
puzzles, clear math lessons, fractals, geometry, tessellations and more
for JK to grade 8 students)
- Math Goodies (a free math help portal for
grade 1 to 8 students that features interactive lessons, worksheets and
homework help (as endorsed by the TCDSB)
- Math Playground (Action packed math site
featuring math games, math word problems, math worksheet, logic puzzles
and math videos for JK to grade 8 students)
- Math Stories (math website for elementary
school students (grade 1 through 6) to boost their math problem solving
and critical-thinking skills)
- Number Nut (math website that offers an
introduction to mathematics and its variety of topics for students of all
ages)
- Purple Math (math website for grade 4 to
8 students that contains practical algebra lessons demonstrating useful
techniques and pointing out common errors. Lessons are written with
the struggling student in mind)
- S.O.S. Math (contains tutorials for grade 4 to
8 students that covers algebra, geometry, calculus, differential
equations, matrices and complex variables. Reviews the most
important results, techniques and formulas)
- Web Math (a math-help website for
grade 4 to 8 students that generates answers to specific math questions
and problems as entered by student at any particular moment)
- Got Kids Games (online math games by grade
levels)
- Khan Academy – free website for learning and
practicing math at all levels. www.khanacademy.org
LANGUAGE
- RazKids (an online guided reading
program with interactive ebooks, downloadable books, and reading quizzes)
- Progressive Phonics (an all-one-reading program
that is easy, fun and totally free to teach SK to 3 students to read and
write in just a few minutes a day with worksheets and activity sheets for
each book)
- Read Write Think (a website with a variety of
resources for out-of-school use for students of all ages. Visit the Parent
and Afterschool Resources section to learn more)
- Reading
A-Z (offers thousands of printable teacher materials to levelled
reading, phonemic awareness, reading comprehension, reading fluency,
alphabet and vocabulary - includes professionally developed downloadable
levelled books, lesson plans, worksheets and reading assessments for SK to
grade 5 students) Books available in many different languages that can be
printed or read on line.
- Starfall’s
Learn to Read (a website that uses a systematic phonics
approach, in conjunction with phonemic awareness practice, to teach
preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, special education,
homeschool, and English language development (ELD, ELL, ESL) students to read.
Starfall is an educational alternative to other entertainment choices for
children)
- Toronto Public Library KidSpace (provides online help for
homework assignments and studying (information is arranged by the Ontario
curriculum courses and strands and includes extensive list of resources)
and has links for tell-a-story, ready-a-story, hear-a-story, tumblebooks,
ask a question, do a word puzzle or find a great book)
- Vocabulary Spelling City! (teaches spelling and
vocabulary for students of all ages; students can study and learn their
word list using vocabulary and spelling learning through games and
printable worksheets)
- Teach Your Child to read
in 100 easy Lessons (a program
to bridge the gap between letter sounds and reading in English)
http://www.amazon.ca/Teach-Your-Child-Lessons/dp/0671631985
FRENCH
- Voila Learning (a French Homework
Helper Online Support open to all French students with live tutors
available online every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday evening between 4pm
and 8pm to help with reading comprehension or oral communication in
French)
- FSL Homework Toolbox (a French online resource
for students and parents to support French homework completion; launched
in September 2011 by Rainbow DSB)
INFORMATION
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Canadian Geographic (an
online mapping tool)
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FactMonster.com (popular
one-stop information resource for kids including timelines, almanacs, a
colourful atlas and over 57,000 short articles from the Columbia
Encyclopiea)
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FactMonster/homework (breaks
information down into subjects (geography, math, social studies) and skills
(writing, speaking and listening, studying))
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Grolier Online (six
research databases including encyclopedias and magazines)
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User name is
toroncdsb
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Password is
toro5988
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National Geographic for Kids (a site for animals and places)
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Library and Archives Canada (online resource where you can have your questions on Canadiana
answered)
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Natural Resources Canada Atlas (online resource that allows you to download maps and find details on
Canada's geography)
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Toronto Public Programs
classes & exhibits: http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/programs-and-classes/
(Programs, classes & exhibits coordinated by the Toronto Public Library)
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Learn 360 (media
resources for teachers & students for grades K to 12)
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Ontario Educational Resource Bank: (Ontario Ministry of Ontario portal of educational links for teachers and
students)
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User name is
tcdsbstudent
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Password is oerbs
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