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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
In this program students will utilize auditory and visual prompts to develop skills in the basic operations at the grade 6 level. They will also develop comprehension and problem solving skills with interesting real world problems.
Designed for: Grade 6
Understanding place value, rounding, skip counting, recognizing large numbers, working with decimals, fractions and problem solving are among the skills covered in this grade 4 math program. Rules and examples are provided to introduce new concepts.
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 grade 5 math program. Rules and examples are provided to introduce new concepts.
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 grade 6 math program. Rules and examples are provided to introduce new concepts.
Designed for: Grade 6
This program uses more than 130 unique activities, including engaging experiments to teach life science concepts to students in grades 1 through 3.
Designed for: Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3
Students learn about space and the world around them in this exciting new program. The concepts taught are drawn from the curriculum for grades 1 through 3.
Designed for: Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3
This comprehensive program covers the majority of the grades 1 through 3 curriculum requirements for the physical science strand.
Designed for: Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3
Designed for students in grades 3 to 6, Map & Globe Skills introduces the basic concepts of maps and map reading.
Designed for: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
This program offers a comprehensive introduction to the major features of global political and physical geography to students in grades 3 to 6.
Designed for: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
This program provides students in grades 3 to 6 with a comprehensive introduction to the political and natural geography of the United States. Students are introduced to these concepts through a series of compelling activities.
Designed for: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
This program introduces students in grades 3 to 6 to the major features of the political and natural geography of Canada.
Designed for: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6