Teacher & classroom resources
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Science Journal for Kids and Teens
Free science articles written for students and approved by scientists, with topics spanning biology, health, climate, and the environment.
National Archives Education
Primary sources, civics activities, document-based lessons, and student learning resources from the U.S. National Archives.
BBC Bitesize
Free curriculum-linked lessons, games, quizzes, and study support for children and teenagers.
Reading Rockets
Evidence-based reading strategies, children’s book guidance, videos, and classroom tools for families and educators.
Library of Congress Education
Primary sources, family learning, classroom materials, and reading resources from the Library of Congress.
Khan Academy
A broad free learning platform with practice and lessons across math, science, computing, reading, and more.
InquiryMind
Free primary learning with read-aloud lessons, science and maths simulations, games, practice questions, and worksheets for kindergarten through Grade 5.
British Library Learning
Family activities, school resources, digital collections, and creative learning from the British Library.
Open Learning Labs
Free video lessons, browser games, and learning puzzles in math, science, reading, and social studies for children ages 5-11.
BBC 500 Words
A children's story-writing project for ages 5-11 with prompts, classroom resources, story inspiration, and annual submissions.
Reading Rockets Activities
Reading and writing activities for children, parents, teachers, and preschool educators from Reading Rockets.
RIF Literacy Central
Reading activities, book resources, and literacy support from Reading Is Fundamental.
National Archives DocsTeach
Primary-source history activities that help students investigate documents, photographs, maps, and other records from the past.
National Center on Improving Literacy
Free evidence-based literacy resources for families and educators covering phonics, dyslexia, fluency, comprehension, and learning to read and write.
New York Public Library Learning
Storytimes, STEAM kits, reading recommendations, family activities, and free learning programs from NYPL.
Peabody Learning Games
A free browser arcade for kindergarten through grade 8, with reading, math, science, typing, building, and puzzle games.
Phonics Lessons
A free browser phonics path for ages 3–6 with letter sounds, decodable stories, sound missions, games, and printables.
BBC School Radio
Audio, video, and downloadable primary-school resources covering music, dance, drama, history, literacy, maths, and assemblies.
BBC Super Movers
Curriculum-linked songs, movement videos, and active learning resources for children across maths, English, sport, and wellbeing.
London Museum Schools Resources
History activities, downloadable classroom resources, and museum learning ideas for early years through secondary students.
London Museum Schools and Communities
History learning resources, curriculum-led sessions, school visits, and community programmes from London Museum.
Library of Congress Braille Literacy for Children, Teens, and Adults
The Library of Congress NLS guide curates braille-literacy resources, early-learning programs, accessible materials, and age-specific support for children and teens.
PBS LearningMedia
A free library of curriculum-aligned videos, interactives, lesson plans, and discussion prompts for teachers and learners from pre-K through high school.
Teach the UN
K–12 teaching guides, games, activities, and child-friendly resources about peace, human rights, sustainability, and the United Nations.
iCivics Games
Free civic-learning games that let students explore government, law, elections, and public decision making through play.
The National Archives Education
Primary-source history resources, enquiry activities, and online sessions for schools, families, and young learners.
NFB Education
Canadian film-based learning resources, playlists, study guides, and digital storytelling activities for classrooms and curious learners.
PBS North Carolina Education
Public-media learning resources for young children, families, and educators, including PBS KIDS activities, literacy, STEM, and educational video.
Jack Hartmann Kids Music Channel
Research-informed movement, counting, literacy, and classroom songs that help young children learn through music and exercise.
Epic Kids
A digital library for kids with books, audiobooks, videos, and reading discovery for children through age 12.
Reading Is Fundamental
Reading motivation, literacy resources, and family and educator support from the United States literacy nonprofit RIF.
ABC Education
Free Australian curriculum-linked videos, games, lessons, and classroom resources for children, families, and teachers.
National WWII Museum Education
K–12 history, STEM, lesson plans, classroom guides, virtual field trips, and student experiences from the National WWII Museum.
BrainPOP Jr.
Animated lessons, activities, and learning resources for young learners across science, math, reading, health, social studies, and the arts.
The Children’s Poetry Archive
A free audio poetry library for children, with poems read aloud, age groups, themes, glossary terms, and teaching resources.
ReadWriteThink Interactives
Free literacy interactives for children and classrooms, including story maps, plot diagrams, word sorts, and reading tools.
Microsoft Reading Coach
A free reading practice tool with AI-powered stories, personalized word practice, educator guidance, and multilingual reading support.
Royal Shakespeare Company Learning
Creative Shakespeare and theatre learning for young people, schools, teachers, and families, with curriculum resources and youth programmes.
Natural Inquirer
USDA Forest Service science readers, activity books, lesson material, and virtual learning adventures for PreK through grade 12.
Islam Museum Learn
A free, open museum learning experience with age-based paths, stories, quests, teacher materials, and family activities for ages 4-18.
TIME for Kids
Current-events stories, age-banded news, and classroom-friendly reading for children and families.
AI Safety and Ethics Guide
A grade-banded AI safety and ethics module covering responsible use, deepfakes, misinformation, privacy, and digital judgment with interactive checks and printable guidance.
Digital Guardian
An age-banded K–12 online-safety curriculum with practical lessons and challenges for privacy, game chat, cyberbullying, AI, and what to do when something feels wrong online.
TypePets
A browser typing tutor for children with finger-placement guidance, games, reading practice, and a virtual-pet loop. The official page presents it as a classroom-ready resource without login, ads, or tracking.
Take One Picture
Take One Picture is the National Gallery’s national primary-school programme, using one artwork from the collection to inspire cross-curricular classroom work, project stages, teacher learning, and exhibitions.
New Hampshire State Library Kids’ Books & Teachers
The New Hampshire State Library explains how young readers with blindness or print disabilities can access audio and braille books, NLS catalogs, BARD, and teacher bibliographies.
Go All In: National Year of Reading 2026
Go All In is the official National Year of Reading 2026 campaign hub, with family guides, educator resources, events, and reading-for-pleasure support for children and young people across the UK.
NABU
NABU is a multilingual children’s literacy publisher creating culturally responsive mother-tongue books and making them available to children, families, and teachers.
Book Creator
A multimedia authoring tool for making digital books with text, images, drawings, audio, and video.
Colorín Colorado
Bilingual family and educator resources that support English-language learners and literacy development.
Blue Brick School
A free, open-source learning platform with more than 300 activities and books, designed for children and educators and available online or offline on Android.
The Singing Walrus
English songs, phonics, movement, and classroom-friendly videos for young language learners.
Literacy for Kids
Literacy for Kids is a free, open-source collection of practical lessons for ages 8–12 covering computer, money, media, civic, legal, health, environmental, emotional, and social literacy through short activities and shared toolkits.
Kids Listen Podcast Directory
Kids Listen is a nonprofit community and directory that helps families, librarians, and educators discover high-quality podcasts and screen-free audio programming for children.
Their First Typing
A free, ad-free browser typing course for beginners learning useful words and phrases across nine language courses.
Shikshalay
Shikshalay is a free multilingual early-learning app for roughly ages 5–8, with Bengali, English, and Hindi lessons in alphabet, reading, maths, science, drawing, games, and everyday skills.
ReadWorks
Free reading passages, comprehension lessons, and educator tools for elementary and middle school.
Teaching Kids News
Free, readable current-events articles written by professional journalists for children, families, and classrooms.
Digital Museum of Learning
A free online museum for children and educators with interactive exhibitions, stories, resources, and playful quizzes about learning.
National D-Day Memorial Education Resources
Free lesson plans, activities, and virtual offerings that help students learn about D-Day and World War II history.
Duck English Phonics Games
Free browser games for practicing letter sounds, listening, blending, and early English phonics with a class or family.
Loving2Read
A free digital library with more than 1,000 children’s books, reading levels, printables, streaks, achievements, and classroom-friendly browsing.
Poetry4Kids
A free poetry library with funny poems, writing lessons, poetry activities, and performance ideas created for children and teachers.
District of Columbia Public Library Kids
DC Public Library’s kids hub connects families to digital books, audiobooks, read-alongs, Kanopy Kids, science and homework databases, reading lists, Books from Birth, and educator support.
Open & Go Phonics
Open & Go Phonics provides free, no-prep phonics lessons for ages 4–8 with letter sounds, word audio, blend practice, games, flashcards, lesson plans, and printable PDFs.
Project Sahitya
Project Sahitya provides a free literacy toolkit with lessons, songs, flashcards, and worksheets designed for early reading support.
OELP Digital Resource Centre
OELP’s Digital Resource Centre offers freely available evidence-based practical tools for young children, families, and educators covering school readiness, early literacy, numeracy, and higher-order thinking.
Luminova Kids
Luminova Kids is a volunteer project offering open English lessons, interactive exercises, audio, reading, listening, games, and worksheets for Ukrainian children in grades 1–7.
Learning App for Kids
Free bilingual English-Urdu learning for playgroup through Grade 5 with maths, language, science, and world topics.
Fablo Kids
Short, teacher-checked stories for ages 6–10 that use real maths and science ideas to solve each adventure, with English and Arabic series.
Tastenflow
An accessible browser touch-typing trainer designed for pupils, with support for screen readers, magnification, audio, and braille-oriented access alongside class practice features.
Word Wonders: Free Early Literacy Curriculum
Zero to Three’s Word Wonders is a free early-literacy curriculum with playful language, reading, and caregiver activities for young children.
Faithfully Explore!
Faithfully Explore! is an educator-hosted podcast for ages 5–12 exploring religions, cultures, traditional stories, inspiring people, and big ideas with classroom-ready learning companions.
Plymouth Public Library Digital Learning for Children
Plymouth Public Library’s children’s digital learning page gathers multimedia youth books, printables, lessons, mini-books, reading challenges, ebooks, audiobooks, and research tools.
Small Universe
Small Universe is a free browser English-learning game with 102 short lessons, mini-games, read-along fairy tales, and age-banded practice for children from age 3 and families.
RIF Back-to-School Reading Tools
Reading Is Fundamental’s Back-to-School page provides families and educators with free reading tools, book ideas, and literacy activities for children.
Toy Theater
Free educational games and virtual tools for elementary learners across math, literacy, art, music, puzzles, and classroom play.
CommonLit
Digital reading lessons, text sets, and discussion tools for building comprehension and literacy.
ReadWriteThink
Classroom-tested reading and language arts resources with interactive activities, lesson plans, and student tools from the National Council of Teachers of English.
The Free Reading Program
A nonprofit online reading, language, grammar, and spelling program with Level K–6 activities for children, families, and schools.
Education.com
A broad library of printable worksheets, games, activities, and lesson materials organized around school subjects and grade levels.
Mochi
A playful personal tutor for children ages 4–12 that teaches math and reading out loud through lessons built around each child’s interests.
iSmartKid
iSmartKid is a multisubject learning platform for ages 3–14 with more than 500 lessons spanning coding, math, science, reading, languages, and creative activities.
Phonics.com
Phonics.com is a free early-reading program with soundcards, audio, worksheets, ebooks, printable literacy games, and lessons aligned to foundational reading skills.
FUNetix
FUNetix is a free reading app and browser module for children ages 5–9, using a game-like 12-hour curriculum to move from alphabet knowledge toward an approximate second-grade reading level.
The Learning Press
The Learning Press provides K–5 literacy and math resources, including phonics, reading, writing, grammar, and illustrative-math-aligned practice materials with free samples and paid classroom downloads.
ECforALL Curriculum
Free, year-long elementary computing curricula designed to support language and literacy development, computational thinking, and AI literacy. The official site presents scaffolded acts and classroom-ready lessons for educators.
Quill
Quill is a nonprofit literacy platform with free interactive activities for reading comprehension, writing, grammar, and language skills, including evidence-based writing prompts and teacher tools.
Spark Reading
Pearson Canada’s Spark Reading is a K–6 digital library with more than 900 titles, Canadian and Indigenous content, audio, highlighting, activities, and teacher tools.
Austin Public Library KidSpeak
KidSpeak is an Austin Public Library digital language-learning resource with more than 40 activities, puzzles, songs, and practice experiences for children learning languages.
KOBI
KOBI is a multilingual reading coach with stories, reading-together features, word games, progress insights, and classroom support for families and educators.
Education World
Educator-focused lesson plans, worksheets, teaching ideas, technology guidance, and classroom resources across school subjects.
LittleActivity Reading
Structured free reading lessons from preschool through Grade 10 with phonics, sight words, comprehension, fluency, and short progressive practice.
Duolingo
Game-like language lessons with short practice sessions, listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities.
Newsela
Differentiated nonfiction articles and quizzes designed for classroom reading practice.
BrightBound Adventures
A free browser learning adventure with curriculum-aligned questions across literacy, numeracy, logic, storytelling, and motor-skills worlds.
AnyOneCanRead
AnyOneCanRead is a free online reading program combining phonics, sound-outs, read-alongs, vocabulary, broad subject content, and educator guidance for kindergarten through upper elementary learners.
DOGO News
Current-events articles for children covering science, social studies, civics, world news, culture, and the environment.
BrightSteps Kids
BrightSteps Kids offers short adaptive math and English practice with teacher-designed skills, voice support, rewards, and a parent progress view.
Kids Discover
Visual nonfiction articles and interactive lessons covering science, history, geography, and social studies.
AmblesideOnline
A free homeschool curriculum and resource guide organized by year, subject, books, and Charlotte Mason-inspired learning plans.
EarlyActivity
EarlyActivity provides printable worksheets, colouring pages, puzzles, stories, science activities, and browser-based worksheet makers for children ages 2–12, families, and classrooms.