Study Commons

Daily practice your child will actually finish.

Study Commons is a free learning library for Ontario kids in Grades 3–5, with Grade 2 starters and Grade 6 stretch work. Every lesson is a complete session your child can finish in one sitting: something worth reading or a new idea, a worked example, practice questions, and an explanation for every answer.

No account. No ads. No paywall. Open a lesson and start.

Eight new lessons every morning

Each day the library grows by eight lessons, one in each of these:

• Science reading, with a labelled diagram
• Original short story
• Canada and community reading
• Math, with 25 or more practice questions
• Everyday English vocabulary
• Writing skill with a model answer
• Logic, patterns and coding
• Word study: prefixes, suffixes and spelling

What your child gets

• Explanations for the wrong answers too. Kids learn why a tempting answer fails, not just which letter was right.
• Wrong options built from real mistakes, the ones children actually make, so practice catches the misunderstanding before a test does.
• Readings built on real evidence. Science and Canada readings come from sources such as Environment and Climate Change Canada, NASA, Parks Canada and Veterans Affairs Canada, listed under every article.
• Made for Canadian kids. Canadian spelling, metric units and examples from here: Ontario ponds in winter, town councils, Remembrance Day, a bag of milk.
• A hint before the answer. Every reading question has a hint, so your child can try again before checking.

For bilingual families

The Family area adds Chinese support for every lesson, a word lab with pronunciation, saved words, a review desk for answers that need another look, and a daily CCAT-style verbal workout. Progress is kept in your own browser.

More for parents

• CCAT and gifted screening guides: how the Durham process works, what the scores mean and how to practise without memorizing test items.
• GTA family outings: farm days, library programs, parades and free events across Durham and the rest of the GTA, refreshed daily.
• The Assessment Centre: a timed advanced math challenge with a signed completion record.