When will language arts come to IXL?
IXL offers language arts program, but not for free. As I
remember, the membership fee for IXL is $79 a year. My daughter
doesn't like to use IXL. She prefers to use Beestar, which also has
language arts program. Actually you can find many core subject
programs on Beestar, such as social studies, science. It's math
program is always free.
Many of daughter's friends are using this website. As they say,
the exercises are very interesting. Sometimes I also take a look
when my daughter works on its math exercises. I find many of the
questions are connected to real life problems. For example, it
gives a picture of grocery store and lists the prices of tomato,
egg, potato. Question: Your mom gives you 10 dollars to spend in
this grocery store, you pay for the three items, then how much
money is left? I feel this question is like teaching children to
use money at the time they learn math.
My daughter has produced strong interest on math since she
started to use Beestar. This is a good sign. Math is not easy. I
don't want her to be afraid of math in the future.