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Comprehensive Curriculum. Research-Based. Teacher-Trusted.

Essential Skills offers one of the most comprehensive K–6 online curriculum libraries available, with over 70 teacher-developed programs spanning reading, math, science, geography, and English language learning. Instruction is carefully sequenced, research-based, and designed to deliver explicit skill mastery through multisensory practice.

Developed by experienced classroom teachers and trusted by schools for over 25 years, Essential Skills is built to support real learners in real classrooms — including struggling students, English learners, and those receiving special education services. Every lesson is designed to close learning gaps, build confidence, and produce measurable results.

Every Essential Skills subscription includes full access to every program listed on our website — there are no add-ons, tiers, or exclusions.

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