Elementary Education Tutoring Materials and Guidelines

When tutoring your child at home, the first thing you may want to do is find out what is taught in the school curriculum and what your child is struggling with. You can get much of this information from your child's teachers and your state's department of education. Read on for a few online resources you may also find helpful.

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Tutoring Materials from Discovery Kids

Discovery Kids is a solid website for learning materials such as educational activities, puzzles and games. There are eight distinct game categories that you and your child can choose from, including skill games, animal games, puzzles and virtual worlds. There's even an award-winning science game app for the iPad called 'Sharks'.

In the 'activities' section, you will find science experiments your child can do at home. There are a total of five different experiments. You and your child can make acid rain at home, grow a fungi garden, transform milk into rubber, make rock candy and make candy light up.

English and Language Arts Help from ReadWriteThink

ReadWriteThink's website offers free online reading and writing tools that can help your child. In addition, you can access free reading and writing lesson plans, many of which can be easily adapted for at-home use. The subjects covered here include grammar, writing and even text analysis.

One of the pertinent educational attractions of this site is the variety of interactive online activities. You'll need to have a recent version of Adobe Flash installed on your computer for the majority of these activities to function. One example is the K-12 comic creator, where your child can create, design and write his or her own comic.

Math Fact Cafe's Worksheets and Flashcards

Math Fact Cafe offers math help for a variety of topics and grade levels. Math Fact Cafe offers free worksheets, math drills and games. You can also build your own worksheets, which can be very useful when you're tutoring your child on specific math topics. You can customize the worksheets by selecting the types of numbers included in the problems and the format. Alternatively, have your child practice on the computer using the online flash cards. For each problem, you child can type in his or her answer and have it corrected instantly.

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