Super Why
Ages 3-8, 2.99
This is an award winning, engaging APP from PBS for emergent readers or struggling young readers that focuses on four early literacy skills including identifying letters, rhyming words, letter sounds, writing and completing sentences.. It features popular characters from the show, Super Why, vivid visuals and interactive activities that provide strong motivational interest..
Fish School
Ages 4+, 1.99
Young children and those in need of development of fine motor control and cause/effect will be absorbed in the eight activities including watching the fish swim, recognizing and producing letters, numbers, shapes etc., matching, finding differences and more. It is highly interactive and would be especially appealing to children who enjoy fish.
Dr. Seuss ABC
Ages 3 to 8
There are many Apps available of Dr. Seuss stories but this one is especially captivating and useful for developing print awarness, phonics, vocabulary, etc. It can be read three ways for different levels of skills and practice: Read to Me (text to speech that highlights each word, Read to Myself or Audio Play.
Word Wagon
Ages 1 to 3, 4 to 7
Move over Word Maker! This delightfully animated program is for students who would benefit from letter, sound and word recognition and segmenting and blending tasks. It features four levels of play that develop phonemic awareness, phonics, spelling skills and word recognition of the 44 Dolch List words. Audio modelling and feedback make this a good independent activity.
Story Builder
Age 4+, 3.99
For development of language skills, especially vocabulary, narration, and imagination. It improves sentence and paragraph structure, integrating ideas and making inferences.. Students are prompted with questions about pictures and given a sentence stem to finish orally which answers the question. These sentences are joined to together to form paragraph.
Dictionary.com
Age 4+ Free.
This is a must have for anyone form 3 to 93 for building vocabulary and spelling. It requires no internet connection to obtain meanings and synonyms, but does need it for audio pronunciation and voice to text. It offers spelling support and reads an example sentence using the word.
Flashcards Deluxe Lite
Ages 4+, Free
An excellent study tool for all students but especially those with memory and reading difficulties that respond well to repetition. There is text to speech for auditory support. You can create your flashcards or use the library. There are games to build in motivation.
Popplet
Elemenatry, middle and high school students, 4.99
This amazing App for IPad only is a great tool for visual learners for brain storming, mindmapping, note taking, breaking down tasks and decision making. It enables students to create "popplets" and add print or visuals easily..
Reading for Details
Grade 2 to 6, Free
This App would be appropriate for students who would benefit from practice in picking out information and making inferences. Interesting passages about inventors and their inventions are used in a practice mode or game format to develop comprehension and critical reading skills.
IScroll
All ages, Free
This app provides a huge library of books of all kinds that can be enjoyed by people of all ages. It woul;d be appropriate for students who are reluctant readers or struggling readers because the text is highlighted as it is read. The site claims that retention improves by 38% and comprehension by 78% when text is read aloud. Fluency and reading levels improve with this feature as well.
The following App is useful for parents and teachers and helps determine what a student's strengths and needs are and may be helpful in determining the Apps a student would benefit from.
Popplet
Elemenatry, middle and high school students, 4.99
This amazing App for IPad only is a great tool for visual learners for brain storming, mindmapping, note taking, breaking down tasks and decision making. It enables students to create "popplets" and add print or visuals easily..
Reading for Details
Grade 2 to 6, Free
This App would be appropriate for students who would benefit from practice in picking out information and making inferences. Interesting passages about inventors and their inventions are used in a practice mode or game format to develop comprehension and critical reading skills.
IScroll
All ages, Free
This app provides a huge library of books of all kinds that can be enjoyed by people of all ages. It woul;d be appropriate for students who are reluctant readers or struggling readers because the text is highlighted as it is read. The site claims that retention improves by 38% and comprehension by 78% when text is read aloud. Fluency and reading levels improve with this feature as well.
The following App is useful for parents and teachers and helps determine what a student's strengths and needs are and may be helpful in determining the Apps a student would benefit from.
Reading Remedies
Ages 4 to 7, 8 to 10 and 11 to 14 , Free
This App is useful for parents and teachers to assess students for rhyming, segmenting and blending, sight words, fluency and word attack. It includes follow up suggestions of activities to develop areas of weakness that the student may have.
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