For Ontario elementary teachers
Every student.Same destination.
Plan the lesson once. Sideroad makes the worksheet each student needs to get there, ready to print.
- The right sheet for every student in the class
- Ontario curriculum codes on every sheet
- Nothing leaves your device. No account.
Sheets for Mathematics today: Number for Grades 1 to 4, and money for Grades 1 and 2.
Why Sideroad exists
Most of your class is meeting the provincial standard.You are still expected to get it right for every one of them.
- The room is fuller than it used to be, and there are fewer hands to help.
- A good part of every day goes to keeping the class running, not to teaching.
- The expectation has not changed: every student, the right work, every lesson.
So the planning moves to your evenings. One lesson becomes several versions, each made by hand, each with its own answer key.
Sideroad gives that time back.
You plan the lesson once. It makes the version each student needs, tied to the Ontario expectation, ready to print.
What Sideroad is
Every sideroad goes somewhere
Sideroad turns one Ontario expectation into the class sheet, the version each student needs, and one answer key. The class takes the main road, some students take a sideroad, and every sheet arrives at the same named place.
- The main roadThe class sheet, for the expectation you are teaching.
- A sideroadOne student’s version: larger print, smaller steps, or a working grade.
- The sign at the endThe expectation code, printed on every sheet.
Instead of several versions made by hand
Same lesson. A sheet for every student.
Not three generic levels. Each sheet is made for one student: the class expectation with the supports that student uses, or the matching expectation at a working grade.
Below, one Grade 4 expectation: the class sheet, a sheet with larger print and chunking, a sheet at Grade 2, and one key for all three.
Instead of remembering who needs what, every evening
Set each student up once, from dropdowns and tick boxes
Each student has a profile: a code or a nickname, a program, and the accommodations to tick. Where there is an IEP, tick what it says.
Sideroad suggests the nickname and a symbol to go with it, and only you know which student it is. A sheet left on a desk or at the photocopier tells nobody whose it is.
You set it once. Every set you make after that follows those choices.
Instead of searching another grade's curriculum
The working-grade expectation is found for you
Choose the class expectation and a student’s working grade. Sideroad follows the curriculum’s same-skill links to that grade and prints that grade’s code on the sheet.
Where no checked link exists, it says so and asks you to confirm that the match fits.
Instead of starting over when one sheet is not right
Change one sheet, or one question, not the whole set
Make a sheet, or a single question, easier, harder or more visual, or ask for fresh questions. Easier changes the mathematics, not only the wording, and the key follows.
The picture shows one sheet as first made, and the same sheet after Easier.
How much is in it, so far
Counted from Sideroad itself each time the site is built, so these numbers are what is in it now.
- Ontario math expectations, ready to print
- 61
- Pick one and Sideroad makes the class sheet, each student's version and the answer key. Number for Grades 1 to 4, and money for Grades 1 and 2.
- different kinds of question, so practice does not repeat itself
- 278
- Across Grades 1 to 4, each with its own pictures and worked example.
- IEP accommodations you can tick for a student
- 53
- 17 of them change the printed page; the rest are kept so the profile matches the IEP.
- project and practice makers
- 3
- Think Book, Fact practice, Cursive practice. Each one makes as many pages as you need, in each student's version.
- Ontario curriculum expectations on file, across 12 subjects and programs
- 2,932
- Kindergarten to Grade 8, to browse and search by code. Sheets exist only for the math ones in the first number.
More sheets, projects and practice are added as they are built and checked.
Instead of adapting sheets written for somewhere else
Matched to the Ontario curriculum
The expectation code is on every sheet. Measurement is metric, coins are loonies and toonies, places are Ontario places, and the spelling is Canadian.
Sheets exist today for Mathematics: Number for Grades 1 to 4, and money for Grades 1 and 2. Sideroad stores codes and its own short paraphrases, not the Ministry’s wording.
Read the full text on the Ministry’s curriculum site (opens in a new tab)
For the morning you cannot be there
Ready for a day away
Away tomorrow? Put the day’s sets in order, add a few notes, and print one pack: a cover page for the supply teacher, the class copies, each student’s own version, the answer keys and a spare page for early finishers.
The cover page tells a supply teacher who gets which sheet, how many copies there are and what each version changes, using the student codes or nicknames you already use.
Around the lesson
Cursive, taught as a craft
Cursive practice teaches handwriting in order: the four basic strokes, letters grouped by the stroke that begins them, the joins between letters, then words and sentences, including your own.
Every item has a model with its starting dot, a copy to trace, a line to copy on and a line to write on alone.
- The four basic strokes
- Letters, grouped by the stroke that begins them
- The joins between letters
- Words and sentences, including your own
Around the lesson
A Think Book and fact practice, in each student's version
The Think Book is a reading-response book with a tab for each comprehension strategy. Fact practice is a page of facts with its key.
Both make a version for each student profile, with the Ontario expectation code on the page.
Instead of hunting for last week's file
Your own page for your class
Home opens on your class and today’s date: the set you last worked on, what the school week brings, and your class at a glance.
The library keeps every set you make, changes and all, ready to reopen, print or copy with new numbers.
The room, set up in a few minutes
A seating chart, a class jobs chart and a morning board, made on your device. Use first names with a last initial, or a nickname for each student. Either way the class list stays in your browser and is never sent to us.
Seats in a minute
Start from rows, pairs, groups or a horseshoe, then drag desks, tables, the board and the door where they go. Drag a student to a seat and they are seated.
Rules you record once
Keep two students apart or together, seat others at the front, the back or near your desk. Shuffle and the group maker follow the rules, and the chart tells you when one is not met.
Jobs that take turns fairly
Line leader, door holder, attendance to the office and more, each with a picture. Next turn hands every job to the students who have waited longest.
A morning board for the screen
The date, your greeting, the day's schedule with the current block marked, what is coming up, a voice level, a class jar, a timer and today's jobs, on one screen. The charts print on one page each.
A record that keeps itself
Class records are read from the sets you have already made. There is nothing extra to fill in.
A curriculum map
Strand by strand, see which expectations your class has practised with Sideroad, and tick the ones you have taught. A student working at another grade gets a map of their own.
Coverage, not marks
The map shows what was practised and what was taught. It says nothing about how any student did.
What each student was given
One page for each student lists what every sheet applied and the day it was printed. Supports that do not show on paper get a box to tick by hand.
Your own record
It is the teacher's own record, by code or nickname, kept on your device. It is not an official school board or Ministry document and it does not replace the IEP.
How a sheet is built
A sheet a student can start without waiting for you
Every sheet follows the four parts of explicit instruction, in the same order, so the page itself does some of the teaching.
- Explanation. A short explanation, with a picture where it helps.
- Worked example. One question already answered, step by step.
- Guided practice. Questions labelled A, B and C, done with the teacher.
- Independent practice. Numbered questions the student does alone.
Student profiles stay on your device
A profile is a code or a nickname plus teaching settings. It is saved in this browser, on this device, and is never sent to us or to anyone else.
Sideroad has no accounts, no analytics and no advertising.
Built by two Ontario teachers
Sideroad is built by two Ontario teachers. One is an elementary Learning Support Teacher, who works with classroom teachers on IEPs and knows the gap between the plan and the paper on a student’s desk.
Closing that gap is what Sideroad is for, and they check the sheets it makes.
How it works in three steps
Set up your students once
Give each student a code or a nickname and choose the supports they use, from the IEP where there is one. It takes minutes.
Pick today's expectation
Browse by strand or search by code. Every sheet is tagged with its Ontario code.
Print the whole set
The class sheet, each student's sheet and one answer key, in one print job.
Questions teachers ask
Plain answers about what Sideroad does today.
Everything on Sideroad is free to use today. There is no account and nothing to pay for.
No. There is no sign-in. Your students and your library are kept in your browser, on your device. Clearing this browser's site data removes them, and so does using another computer.
A profile is a code or a nickname plus teaching settings, such as the accommodations from the IEP. Sideroad has no place for a name, a birth date, an Ontario Education Number, a diagnosis or a note about a child. Nothing about a profile is sent anywhere.
Sheets exist today for Mathematics: Number for Grades 1 to 4, and money for Grades 1 and 2. The expectation picker lists every subject from Kindergarten to Grade 8 and tells you which expectations have sheets.
No. The questions, the pictures and the answers are computed by code from the expectation, so they always agree. No AI service is involved.
Yes. Make a sheet, or one question, easier, harder or more visual. Ask for fresh questions, remove a question, or retype its wording. The numbers cannot be typed over, so the key stays right.
Pick the expectation for the class. A student working at another grade is matched to that grade's expectation, and you can set it per student. For the other half of a split, make a second set.
Yes. Put the day’s sets in order, add a few notes, and print one pack: a cover page for the supply teacher, the class copies, each student’s own version, the answer keys and a spare page for early finishers.
Yes. Cursive practice teaches handwriting in order: the four basic strokes, letters grouped by the stroke that begins them, the joins between letters, then words and sentences, including your own. Each page has a model to look at, a copy to trace, a line to copy on and a line to write on alone.
Sheets are made for Letter paper, 8.5 by 11 inches. The class sheet, each student's sheet and the key print as one job, or you can print only the key or only the student sheets.