Helping at home for Parents (page 2)
Helping at home for Parents: 75 free pages to print, play or teach from. No sign-in.
- Spiral review: what it is and how daily math review worksGuide
What spiral review is, how it differs from blocked practice, what a day of daily math review looks like by grade, and a free maker that mixes earlier skills in for you.
- Letter tracing worksheets A to ZPrintable
Print letters to trace as dotted strokes on ruled lines, with a start dot on every stroke: one letter a page, a 26 page A to Z book, or the whole alphabet on one page. No sign-in.
- Mental math sprintMath
One minute of addition, subtraction, multiplication or division facts with three answer boxes each. It starts easy and only gets harder after five right in a row.
Checked 2026-11-07
- Making change gameMath
A price and a payment, and the child counts the change back with coins and bills. Three levels, a count-up hint like a cashier, and nothing is stored.
Checked 2026-11-07
- 30 reading fluency activities for every dayIdea
Thirty reading fluency activities for K–5, from repeated reading and reader's theater to phrase scooping and one-minute checks, each with what to do, what you need and the grades it fits.
- Telling time gameMath
Read the clock with three answer boxes, or set the clock by dragging its hands: to the hour, half hour, quarter hour, five minutes and the minute.
Checked 2026-11-07
- Homework link makerTool
Paste a list and get a six-letter code: children answer at home and you see each score by the pen name Peabody gave them. Free, no real names.
- Math facts wheelTool
A math facts spinner with twelve fact-practice routines, from doubles and make ten to counting by fives and times tens. Spin, then practise together for two minutes.
- Fine motor sheets: pre-writing strokes, cutting and tracing pathsTool
Printable fine motor practice: pre-writing strokes, scissor-cutting lines, tracing paths and hand-strengthening cards, made new each time at three levels, for a teacher, parent or therapist to use.
Checked 2026-11-08
- Speech sound picture cards for practicePrintable
Free printable picture cards for practicing speech sounds at the start of words, by sound, with a word list and a practice sheet. For a speech-language pathologist, teacher or family.
Checked 2026-11-08
- Class mode: a class code, and your class's practice on one mapTool
Make a class, put its six-letter code on the board, and see each child's Skill Map, set a class Focus, give sets and run a Live game. Practice only.
- Class roster: assign a quiz and see each child's scoreTool
Make a class, add children by first name or nickname only, give them a code, assign a quiz or game and read each child's score, time and tries. No child email or account; gone in 90 days.
- Can a substitute grade work or assign homework?Page
Usually only what the plan asks for. Whitko Community Schools lists grading, if needed, among a sub's duties, and San Ramon Valley Unified tells subs not to vary…
Checked 2026-10-30
- Retrieval practice vs rereading: which helps students remember?Guide
Should students test themselves or read their notes again? A side-by-side comparison, the studies that compared them directly, and how to switch a class over.
- Spaced practice vs massed practice (cramming): which works better?Guide
Practice a little over many days, or a lot at once? A side-by-side comparison of spacing and cramming, the studies that tested them, and how to schedule review.
- Retrieval practice: myth or fact?Page
Ten statements about quizzing to remember. Myth, fact or partly true? Each answer says what the research on the Library's evidence card shows.
Checked 2026-10-30
- Make a quiz from a book, a recipe or a landPage
A free three-box quiz made from the words on one Peabody page, with an answer key to print and a homework link a student opens without signing in.
- Can you score these running records?Page
Eight running records with their counts. Work out the accuracy, error rate, self-correction ratio or words correct per minute. Every answer shows the arithmetic.
Checked 2026-10-30
- Spiral or blocked practice? A quick quizPage
Eight practice pages and routines. For each, decide: spiral review, which brings back earlier skills, or blocked practice, one kind of item at a time. Every answer says why.
Checked 2026-10-30
- A Meta-Analytic Review of the Benefit of Spacing out Retrieval Practice Episodes on Retention (2021)Page
Spreading retrieval practice on the same content out over time led to much better retention than doing it all at once. Expanding gaps (short, then longer, then longer) were no better on average than equal gaps,…
- A randomized controlled trial of interleaved mathematics practice (2020)Page
Seventh-grade classes that periodically did interleaved assignments for four months outscored classes that did blocked assignments on an unannounced test a month later. Teachers carried it out without training and…
- Distributed practice in verbal recall tasks: A review and quantitative synthesis (2006)Page
Pooling hundreds of experiments on spacing out study, the review found that the gap between study sessions and the time until the test work together: the longer you need to remember something, the longer the gap…
- Interleaved practice improves mathematics learning (2015)Page
Seventh graders who practiced with problems of different kinds mixed together (interleaved) scored higher on unannounced tests one day and thirty days later than when the same problems came in blocks of one kind, and…
- Rethinking the Use of Tests: A Meta-Analysis of Practice Testing (2017)Page
Across the studies pooled, taking practice tests helped learning more than restudying and more than every other comparison condition. How much it helped depended on the kind of practice test, the learners, the outcome…