Best Games, Apps, and Sites for Personalized Learning

Adaptive math app reinforces foundational skills

Bottom Line: While it's not as polished as other apps, Math Shelf has a steady and thorough approach to exploring foundational math skills.

Excellent adaptive math for flipped or blended classrooms

Bottom Line: If you're looking for courseware for your classroom, this is based on solid research and proven technology.

Innovative combo of live instruction and adaptive online math lessons

Bottom Line: It's a great balance of online lessons, in-person instruction, and instructional resources, all for free.

Individualized, game-based math adapts to kids' needs

Bottom Line: Great all-in-one program for math support and practice, with somewhat accurate adaptive tech.

Track progress, differentiate learning with standards-aligned lessons

Bottom Line: Use these standards-based lessons to differentiate and monitor student growth, but use sparingly.

Create differentiated math lessons and assessments in minutes

Bottom Line: Easy differentiation and unique insights that can improve math instruction.

Standards-aligned, adaptive, core subject materials with lots of support

Bottom Line: It's rich with content-aligned assessments, worksheets, and progress analytics, so mindful teachers will find it a valuable resource to promote skills mastery through practice.

Flexible learning environment offers a personalized journey to mastery

Bottom Line: A robust resource for targeted individualized instruction in most subject areas.

Well-done worksheet generator helps reinforce learning

Bottom Line: This is a handy tool math teachers can use to reinforce learning with great feedback for students and teachers.

Personalized, step-by-step math coaching challenges and adapts

Bottom Line: A solid, adaptive curriculum that guides kids as they work out problems.

Boost math skills with personalized learning, targeted lesson support

Bottom Line: With adaptive features and solid support, it's a fantastic tool to support your instruction.

Pricey but definitely worth it for kids struggling with pronunciation

Bottom Line: For helping students with letter and word pronunciation, this highly valuable tool is worth the cost.

K–2 literacy program offers comprehensive, adaptive activities

Bottom Line: An easy-to-recommend tool thanks to its broad coverage of key skills and nice balance of student-driven and teacher-differentiated learning.

Blended reading program offers individualized growth

Bottom Line: This is a research-backed blended reading platform that builds literacy skills and helps teachers plan and deliver targeted instruction in the classroom.

Digital library offers handy supports for readers

Bottom Line: A great option for students needing support, and, while the library is smaller, the narration is a serious upgrade.

Useful if not exciting adaptive tool for assessing reading ability

Bottom Line: It's very utilitarian, but what it does it does well: getting students test-ready by effectively assessing and tracking reading ability.

Empowering reader invites students to read with purpose

Bottom Line: Far beyond the average e-reader, this tool helps students connect with texts and each other while giving teachers useful insight into student thinking.

Set tailored targets with pricey but worth-it kit of tools, strategies

Bottom Line: You pay for quality with Goalbook Toolkit, including access to clear, well-crafted learning goals and strategies that allow for far easier differentiation.

Assign, assist, and assess with real-time, interactive classroom

Bottom Line: It's a great option for teachers who want to go paperless, provide specific feedback, and encourage collaboration among students in virtual or 1-to-1 classrooms.

LMS offers tangible options to differentiate learning

Bottom Line: An excellent option for monitoring individual progress toward goals, but teachers will need to be deliberate when selecting and assigning content.

Digital worksheet builder lets students show learning in multiple ways

Bottom Line: Students will appreciate this 21st-century take on worksheets, and teachers will love all the different options for creation and assessment.

Sensitively designed so any student can write and share books

Bottom Line: CAST UDL Book Builder is an excellent resource to get kids started on digital content creation; it's simple and straightforward and caters to a variety of learning styles.

Expert feedback and tools designed for individual learner profiles

Bottom Line: This impressive tool uses normed digital assessments to create a specific learning profile and provide authentic tools for individual learners.

Superb real-time assessment tool a fit for 1-to-1, BYOD classrooms

Bottom Line: This smart tool helps teachers gather a variety of student response types and then offer targeted feedback.

Robust lesson creation and delivery tool aids assessment

Bottom Line: With some creativity, this interactive platform can support instruction and assessment.

Adaptive instructional site simplifies lessons, tracks progress

Bottom Line: Useful adaptive-learning site is limited in scope and sequence but should improve with time.

Leveling and quests turn classes into personalized adventures

Bottom Line: A ready-to-go platform for introducing game-based learning principles into assessment and class structure, but success and engagement depend on solid class content.

Flexible desktop, mobile assignment tool works best with pro features

Bottom Line: A flexible way to collect student assignments and offer written and verbal feedback, especially with the premium features.

Great how-to content, flexible features boost digital badge tool

Bottom Line: A useful tool for issuing digital badges.

Robust personality survey for students results in real-world insights

Bottom Line: For educators who have the time, drive, and buy-in, this program is a great data-analysis and character-development tool.