Writing
Primary Writer is free.
Very easy to use.
Students can select backgrounds, font size, text color and lines. Students can easily email their work.
Very easy to use.
Students can select backgrounds, font size, text color and lines. Students can easily email their work.
Write About This has a free app and a full version for $3.99.
This app has a huge variety of images and writing prompts.
Easy digital publishing and sharing.
Students can use their own photos, add text and record their voices.
Great tool!
This app has a huge variety of images and writing prompts.
Easy digital publishing and sharing.
Students can use their own photos, add text and record their voices.
Great tool!
Kid's Journal costs $1.99.
Students will need very little guidance on how to use this app. You can create and monitor as many individual journals as you want. The camera feature allows students to take a quick snapshot of a piece of work, art project, book they have read and then write about it. Easy to export student work.
Students will need very little guidance on how to use this app. You can create and monitor as many individual journals as you want. The camera feature allows students to take a quick snapshot of a piece of work, art project, book they have read and then write about it. Easy to export student work.
Scribble Press costs $3.99.
Scribble Press is a book creation platform that allows students to create and share their stories. Students can write and illustrate their own creations or use the app's story templates. Great for struggling writers. This app allows you to e-mail a link to view the finished books.
Scribble Press is a book creation platform that allows students to create and share their stories. Students can write and illustrate their own creations or use the app's story templates. Great for struggling writers. This app allows you to e-mail a link to view the finished books.
Perfect Captions has a free app and a full version for $1.99.
Add text, labels and speech bubbles to any photo. Easy to use. Allows students to e-mail their work.
Add text, labels and speech bubbles to any photo. Easy to use. Allows students to e-mail their work.
Book Creator is a simple way to create your own beautiful eBooks. There are several different options for creating and enhancing each story. Some options include: layouts, photo & video settings, fonts, colors, pens, recording & sound choices and more. Books can also be saved, emailed, or printed in a variety of ways.
This app is fairly easy to use and suitable for all Cycles.
$4.99 for the full version
This app is fairly easy to use and suitable for all Cycles.
$4.99 for the full version
Using Strip Designer you can create your own personal comic strips. Every aspect of the comic can be adjusted to suit your creative needs along with many special effects. Things like layout, frames, fonts, colors, photos, stickers, speech bubbles can all be used to decorate each comic.
Suitable for all Cycles
$2.99
Suitable for all Cycles
$2.99
Photo Card is an application that allows you to create both electronic (email) as well as real physical post cards, using your own photographs as well as those provided by the creators. There are a variety of features that can be used to enhance each postcard such as: stickers, stamps, fonts, colors, photos, as well as quick sound recordings.
Suitable for all Cycles
Free
Suitable for all Cycles
Free
Reading
Words and phonics:
SIGHT WORDS is an app to practice reading various sight words in a flashcard style. As the students go through the cards they read the word, tap to hear the word, and then chose either thumbs up or thumbs down according to their reading. It allows you to have multiple players (up to 40 students) and tracks their progress. You can email reports or save a picture of the stats reports page for later viewing. The app also has numerous settings for types or categories of words, levels, sounds, colours, etc... You can also add custom made lists of words.
Suitable for Cycle 1 & 2
Free
Suitable for Cycle 1 & 2
Free
The Phonics Genius app allows for students to practice reading and gain various phonics skills. It is a flashcard style app with card sets for all phonetic sounds and combinations. There are several settings to choose from and it is customizable for various needs. There is even a record option built in as well as a game mode. The card sets can also be emailed or saved to Dropbox.
Suitable for Cycle 1 & 2
Free
Suitable for Cycle 1 & 2
Free
Reading Magic is a series of apps used to build reading skills. There are words, sentences, and spelling versions of these apps with various levels within each series (1-4).
The word reading apps are broken down into 3 different skills....blending, segmenting, and reading. It helps with breaking words down by sounds and has realistic pictures to go with each word. There are various categories of words to choose from or they can be shuffled all together. There are also short demos and help options for students to understand the instructions in each specific skill
section.
Suitable for Cycle 1
Free and some others in the series vary in price-up to $2.99
The word reading apps are broken down into 3 different skills....blending, segmenting, and reading. It helps with breaking words down by sounds and has realistic pictures to go with each word. There are various categories of words to choose from or they can be shuffled all together. There are also short demos and help options for students to understand the instructions in each specific skill
section.
Suitable for Cycle 1
Free and some others in the series vary in price-up to $2.99
Jumbled Sentences is a series of five apps designed to help students learn to construct sentences. The apps provide students with drag and drop activities in which they sort jumbled words into sentences. When the sound is turned on students can hear the words read to them by the narrator as well as the sentences that are constructed. The app provides students with immediate feedback on each of the sentences that they build. When students correctly create sentences they earn virtual stickers to show their progress.
Suitable for Cycle 1
Free
Suitable for Cycle 1
Free
Books: reading & listening
iStoryBooks is an app with a large choice of mostly well-known, colourful books. It has many different books you can choose from in a variety of topics to save to your own library. Most books are available in the free app, but there are some books only available with the premium version. The "read to me" setting can be turned on or off to allow for some flexibility in reading levels and purpose.
Suitable for Cycle 1 & 2
Free with option for paid premium content.
Suitable for Cycle 1 & 2
Free with option for paid premium content.
TabTale Books are a series of interactive apps that bring well-known children's stories to life. These books allow for 3 reading options: read to me, auto play, or read to myself. They also have a variety of interactive activities for learning and fun!
Suitable for Cycle 1 & 2
Free-99 cents for ad-free versions.
Suitable for Cycle 1 & 2
Free-99 cents for ad-free versions.
Raz-kids is a levelled reading app/site designed to help students learn and improve reading skills. There are levels from A-Z that increase in difficulty and numerous books within each level. Students can listen, read to self, record, as well as complete short quizzes on each book. Students' progress can also be tracked through the teacher roster and possibilities for regular emails or alerts can be set up. The teacher has full access to control students' progress, send assignments/messages, etc... Teachers can also listen to as well as respond to students' saved recordings.
Suitable for all Cycles
Need to pay for an account, but the app is free.
Suitable for all Cycles
Need to pay for an account, but the app is free.
iBooks is an e-book application that allows you to download as well as read books. There are books of all genres that can be downloaded to your bookshelf from the built-in iBookstore. The books rang in price and several are available for free (classics etc...). The books can be read just with the swipe of your finger, can be manipulated digitally, and can even be bookmarked like a real book. This app also includes a convenient shelf to download and store your PDF materials.
Suitable for all Cycles
Free
Suitable for all Cycles
Free
Fluency and comprehension:
K12 Timed: Reading & Comprehension Practice app lets readers practice reading fluency as well as comprehension. The students read passages and then answer questions on the reading. The app calculates the words per minute and tracks all progress. The free version offers 9 levels with 25 stories for Grades K-4. It only allows one student profile on the free version, but the paid version offers unlimited with many more levels and stories as well.
Suitable for Cycle 1 & 2
Free with upgrade to full version available for $3.99
Suitable for Cycle 1 & 2
Free with upgrade to full version available for $3.99
iPrompt Pro is a Teleprompter app that can be used in a variety of ways. Any text can be copied/pasted into the app or you can type your own words directly in it. The words scroll like a Teleprompter on your device for reading. There are numerous settings for backgrounds, fonts, speed, etc... All your texts can be saved right in the app. This app can be used with students as reading fluency practice, as a Teleprompter for video projects, and many other possibilities.
Suitable for all Cycles
Free
Suitable for all Cycles
Free
Shadow Puppet is an easy to use photo storytelling app. This app can be used to turn your photos into a simple slideshow with voice recordings. Simply choose your pictures by clicking on them and begin recording your story for each photo. Moving between slides is easy and recording can be paused/restarted as often as needed. Your finished projects can be saved in the photo album on the iPad, added to your Shadow Puppet profile, emailed, and/or shared through social media.
The uses for students to demonstrate reading abilities and comprehension as well as other uses are endless. Also it's simplicity makes it a very useful app with even the youngest children.
Suitable for all Cycles
Free
The uses for students to demonstrate reading abilities and comprehension as well as other uses are endless. Also it's simplicity makes it a very useful app with even the youngest children.
Suitable for all Cycles
Free
Reading tools:
R of R is an app designed to assess reading through a running record. It works just as a regular reading running record and has the added advantage of being digital. The digital aspect adds many convinces for easier use as well as an actual recording of the child's reading. There are also settings such as pull down menus and photo capabilities to help speed up the process. Each record can also be saved or shared electronically.
Suitable for all Cycles
Free
Suitable for all Cycles
Free