Jan Richards, Ed.D.

National University

Ontario, CA

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Kindergarten-First Grade

  • The K Crew

    A website for Kinder teachers that need help planning and intergrating the curriculum.

  • Beginning Phonics Practice

    Blending and segmenting sounds in words. Great practice for beginning readers! CHARMING SITE!

  • Clifford's Interactive Storybooks

    Interactive Storybooks! Phonics fun, games, and stories for early readers.

  • Storyline Online

    Streaming video of famous actors reading books to you.Related activities and an activity guide are included!

  • Handwriting for Kids

    This great site will print out homework handwriting practice sheets for you—both printing and cursive! Terrific for kindergarten and first grade especially!!

  • Star Fall

    Primarily designed for first grade, Starfall is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade. You have to experience the wonders of this site! Utterly engaging!

  • Free Preschool Worksheets For Early Childhood Education

    Kindergarten skills worksheets.

  • Kinder Korner

    Kinder korner is wonderful place for kindergarten teachers to find new and exciting ideas. Different resources are available for purchase here and well worth it from the creativity present. Helpful hints and archives from an actual teacher make this site essential for any kindergarten teacher.

  • PBS Kids

    Provides parents and educators with helpful materials and activities for engaging children of all ages.

  • NOGGIN

    This is really a site approriate for preschool kiddos. Charming. It has games and stories. Interactive!

  • Apples 4 the Teacher

    This site includes interactive learning games, quizzes, and worksheet generator tools by subject (creative arts, foreign languages, language arts, math, science, social studies), articles, literacy coloring pages and more.

  • Mighty Book

    Students can use this interactive site to listen and read along with all kinds of stories and poetry. “Learning to read with stories, songs, jokes,games, and more.”

  • Everything Pre-School

    One of the largest selection of early childhood education themes on the internet. Most of the shared ideas are easy for implementation but here are some examples: Be Open To New Ideas & Share Your Ideas With Others, Plan, Plan, and Plan Some More, Set a Routine and Stick To It (Children thrive on routine), Don’t Be Afraid to Ask for Help and Have Fun!

  • TLS Books

    This site offers a variety of free printable preschool worksheets promoting early childhood education. This fun, printable, preschool site includes worksheets which introduce various concepts such as: reinforce color recognition, improve fine motor skills, and introduce numbers and letters.

  • Hubbards Cupboard

    For early childhood educators and parents

  • Hummingbird Educational Resources

    Lessons for pre-schools for teachers, resource themes, and thematic units, literature etc