Practical help for the next classroom decision. Open a free tool or read a teaching guide, then choose a resource when you need the ready-to-use pages.
Free tool · Reading fluency
Score a one-minute oral reading sample with words correct, accuracy, and a short retell. No login is needed to try the tool.
Teaching guide · Reading fluency
Work through the one-minute calculation, a classroom example, and what the number can and cannot tell you.
Teaching guide · Reading comprehension
Model the evidence question, work through a bean-seed passage, and use a two-minute exit ticket.
Read the fact vs opinion guide
Next step: Free Fact vs Opinion Mini-Lesson
Teaching guide · Reading comprehension
Connect exact text clues to relevant knowledge, test a careful inference, and teach students to reject unsupported guesses.
Next step: Free Making Inferences Mini-Lesson
Teaching guide · Decoding
Run a brief first-pass check, apply the stop rules, and turn the first pattern with two misses into a teaching point.
Teaching guide · Math assessment
Choose a Grade 3 starting point and use the results to plan what to teach next.
Teaching guide · Math assessment
Give one short single-skill probe with a fresh form each time, note the error pattern and choose the next teaching move.
Next step: Math Skill Checks Grades 1-3
Teaching guide · Fractions
A free 10-15 minute lab on fraction piece size for Grades 4-6, and when you need the full diagnostic.
Next step: Fraction Diagnostic & Repair Lab
Teaching guide · Math facts
A free visual routine for explaining addition, subtraction and multiplication facts in Grades 1-5.
Next step: Math Facts Diagnostic Grades 1-5
Teaching guide · Substitute planning
Build a plan a substitute can run when the absence was not expected, with clear timing and student directions.
Check the actual 2026–27 subject-specific written-exam weights, exemptions and teacher next steps.
See who completes the requirement, the 70% threshold, attempts, timing and what TVO has made public.
Start with the learning task, try one support in a real lesson, and check whether it helps.
Start with the task a student needs to do, then switch on one support and practise it in a real lesson. These built-in ChromeOS features can help a school team test what works without changing the lesson goal.
Introduce one support for one learning job at a time. This guide pairs vendor-documented Read&Write for Google Chrome tools with a three-lesson classroom rollout teachers can adapt.
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