As schools find gaps in students’ core skills across the NAPLAN domains, the following resources might be helpful. Please use the comments link to share your favourite resources.
Reading
- Interactive Reading Practice – from the National Geographic
- Online Reading Comprehension – Mr Nussbaum (US centric)
Language Conventions
- Spelling Bee – from Annenberg
- Many Interactive Spelling Sites
- Vocabulary Spelling City – many sites
Writing
- ReadWriteThink – and All Interactives on the site
- BBC Bitesize Tests – e.g., Structure and Paragraph
- Quill – Writing activities
Numeracy
- Math Interactive – Learn Alberta
- Maths – Secondary Level (KS3) – BBC Bitesize
- Interactivate STEM Years 3-12 – from Shodor
- Math Games – Practice by Skill
General Resources
- ABC Splash – Games across subjects and year levels
From NSW SMART Teaching
Language Conventions (Spelling & Grammar)
Reading
- Connecting ideas
- Literal comprehension
- Inferential comprehension
- Interpreting poetry
- Interpreting vocabulary
- Main idea
Writing
- Audience
- Text structure
- Ideas
- Language devices
- Vocabulary
- Cohesion
- Paragraphing
- Sentence structure
- Punctuation
- Spelling
- Tone