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This is a free website for Math and Language Arts practice! You can select a grade from Pre-K through 8, pick math or language arts, and then select a topic. The games are fun and educational. This website also meets state standards.
This is actually a subscription service, but it does offer free sample questions for each grade level. You are limited to how much you can use in one session.
This site offers various interactive activities that first grade students can do to enhance their reading skills. In particular the Basic Sight Words activity allows students to find sight words and in turn they make a puppetbot dance.
This site offers many lesson plan activities for any grade. More specifically it offers a Food Mobile activity where first grade students can create their own mobile that shows the five food groups.
This site offers programs for various grade levels. In particular there is a worksheet that is offered to help first grade students name the planets in the solar system.
This site offers many ideas for teachers to use in the classroom pertaining to the state standards. This particular idea focuses on building a first grader's mapping skills.
This site offers multiple math and reading activities that can be performed online by the students to better their skills for each state required standard.