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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
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 3
Designed for: Grade 3
Interesting yet easy to read, fully illustrated stories for older students reading at a grade 2 - 3 level. This program is designed to encourage reading and help struggling readers.
Designed for: Remedial Students
Interesting yet easy to read, fully illustrated stories for older students reading at a grade 2.5 - 3.5 level. The program is designed to encourage reading and help struggling readers.
Designed for: Remedial Students
Interesting yet easy to read, fully illustrated stories for older students reading at a grade 3 - 4 level. This program is designed to encourage reading and help struggling readers.
Designed for: Remedial Students
Interesting yet easy to read, fully illustrated stories for older students reading at a grade 3.5 - 4.5 level. This program is designed to encourage reading and help struggling readers.
Designed for: Remedial Students
Interesting yet easy to read, fully illustrated stories for older students reading at a grade 4 - 5 level. This program is designed to encourage reading and help struggling readers.
Designed for: Remedial Students
A wide variety of fiction and non-fiction stories supported by colorful illustrations and verbal cues develop reading comprehension and vocabulary skills at a grade 1 to 2 reading level. Students are able to click on challenging story and question words…Read More
Designed for: Grade 1, Grade 2
Identifying the main idea, predicting outcomes and using context clues are among the reading comprehension skills this program teaches to students at a grade 2 to 3 reading level. Reading Comprehension Level 2 contains 70 interesting fiction and non-fiction stories using grade-appropriate vocabulary.
Designed for: Grade 2, Grade 3
Develops reading comprehension ability and vocabulary skills including: word meanings, synonyms, antonyms, homonyms and root words in students reading at a grade 3 to 4 level. Many of the stories in Reading Comprehension Level 3 focus on interesting and unusual…Read More
Designed for: Grade 3, Grade 4
Designed to address all aspects of the reading comprehension, vocabulary and language strands for students at a grade 4-5 reading level.
Designed for: Grade 4, Grade 5
This comprehensive program covers the majority of the language arts curriculum objectives for students at a grade 5-6 reading level.
Designed for: Grade 5, Grade 6
Provides students at a grade 6-7 reading level with the comprehension, vocabulary and language skills essential to their success.
Designed for: Grade 6, Grade 6 Plus
In this program students will work with hundreds of new words and more than 200 activities to develop critical vocabulary, reading, spelling and language skills.
Designed for: Grade 3
In this program students will work with hundreds of new words and more than 200 activities to develop critical vocabulary, reading, spelling and language skills.
Designed for: Grade 4
Provides the strategies, skills, and individual word instruction required to develop strong language proficiency. Students are taught more than 500 new vocabulary words through a wide variety of engaging activities.
Designed for: Grade 5