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Essential Skills offers one of the most extensive collections of K–6 online learning programs available — over 70 comprehensive titles covering reading, math, science, geography, and English language learning. Our curriculum is carefully sequenced and research-based, providing explicit instruction and thousands of interactive auditory, visual, and kinesthetic activities to ensure complete skill mastery for every student.
“These programs teach the skills that young children need in a sequential, systematic manner. These are high quality, research and evidence based programs.”
— Sandra Crandall, Reading Specialist, Moiola Elementary
Developed by experienced classroom teachers and trusted by thousands of schools for over 25 years, our programs deliver real depth and real results — not just digital practice. Every lesson is designed to build confidence, close learning gaps, and support diverse learners, including ELL and special education students.
🔎For an overview of what’s included in every Essential Skills subscription, start with Essential Skills Complete. This highlights the major bundles but not individual programs like Phonemic Awareness, Reading Comprehension, Mastering Numeration. Remember, our new all-inclusive subscriptions include everything listed on our website.
Basic Skills Series
This comprehensive program provides thorough coverage of your math curriculum standards at the Grade 3 level. Hundreds of activities reinforce concepts and ensure complete standards mastery.
Designed for: Grade 3
Understanding place value, rounding, skip counting, recognizing large numbers, working with decimals, fractions and problem solving are among the skills covered in this comprehensive package.
Designed for: Grade 4
Understanding place value, rounding, skip counting, recognizing large numbers, working with decimals, fractions and problem solving are among the skills covered in this comprehensive package.
Designed for: Grade 5
Understanding place value, rounding, skip counting, recognizing large numbers, working with decimals, fractions and problem solving are among the skills covered in this comprehensive package.
Designed for: Grade 6
This complete interactive reading skills program provides systematic phonics instruction to students at a K-2 grade level. Students progress from learning the alphabet to reading complete sentences. Super Phonics and Super Phonics Level 2 are the best online phonics programs…Read More
Designed for: Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2
This is a comprehensive reading program that introduces and extends new phonics skills to students at a grade 2 to 3 level.
Designed for: Grade 2, Grade 3
This comprehensive sight words program teaches the 220 Dolch sight words and more than 100 other high frequency words to students at a kindergarten through 2nd grade level. The word lists in the Essential Skills Sight Words program constitute more…Read More
Designed for: Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2
Teaches the next 400 words that have the highest frequency in the English language to students at a grade 2 to 4 grade level. Word lists have been researched and selected from a number of reputable sources including the Fry…Read More
Designed for: Grade 2, Grade 3
Developed by teachers, Readiness Skills provides students in grades PK through one with the basic readiness skills required for them to excel as early learners. The program teaches skills in a sequential way that guarantees success for students. Shapes, colors,…Read More
Designed for: Kindergarten, Grade 1
Developed by teachers and reading specialists, Essential Skills Phonemic Awareness program teaches students at a K-2 grade level 38 different phoneme sounds, how to isolate these sounds in words, phoneme addition, deletion, and substitution. The Essential Skills Phonemic Awareness program…Read More
Designed for: Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2
A fast-paced drill and practice program designed to build fluency in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts in as little as 10 minutes per day. This program emphasizes multiplication practice to help students master their times tables and improve their…Read More
Designed for: Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 6 Plus, Remedial Students
Five high-interest, low-vocabulary reading programs designed to appeal to remedial students in grades 4-10. Each story includes a vocabulary and comprehension skills building mode, allowing students to focus on their problem areas. Reading levels range from 2.0-5.0 across the five…Read More
Designed for: Remedial Students
These fully illustrated and patterned stories are designed to allow emergent readers to learn independently at their own level and pace. Each story provides opportunities for students to learn, practice, and apply phonetic rules and to develop word recognition and…Read More
Designed for: Kindergarten
These fully illustrated and patterned stories are designed to allow emergent readers to learn independently at their own level and pace. Each story provides opportunities for students to learn, practice, and apply phonetic rules and to develop word recognition and…Read More
Designed for: Grade 1
A graduated reading system with each level increasing in difficulty as the reader progresses through the illustrated stories. This program is designed for students in grade 2.
Designed for: Grade 2