Colleen Woodworth Eliza Bailey Terri Fredenburg http://lafayetteschools.org/ Grimshaw Elementary LaFayette CSD LaFayette,NY iPad Apps for Literacy Letter ID/Sounds Beginning Sounds Sort (Lakeshore) ABC Alphabet Phonics Cost: Free Recommended Ages: 1-6 Helps your child rapidly learn the alphabet by sight, sound & touch. Cost: Free Recommended Ages: 4-6 Phonics Consonants (Abitalk) Cost: Free Recommended Ages: 5-7 This app includes 6 games that focus on beginning sounds for each consonant as well as phonetic spelling. Kids match words that share the same beginning sound. They drop the tokens onto the correct columns on their board. Incorrect placements go back to the end of the line. Letter of the Day (Lakeshore) Cost: Free Recommended Ages: 4-6 After selecting a letter, students listen to a chant that focuses on that letter sound and identify objects beginning with that sound. Finally, they practice writing the upper and lower case versions of the letter. Pocket Phonics ABC Alphabet Phonics (Grasshopper Apps) Cost: Free (Lite Version) Recommended Ages:4-6 Cost: Free Students trace letters, identify their sounds, and blend sounds to form simple words. Recommended Ages: 1-7 Learn letters by sight, sound and touch. Beautiful pictures and real photos make this app very engaging. You can customize this app with your own voice & photos. Sight Words 1000 Sight Words Superhero HD Sight Words for Reading HD (Rock ‘N Learn) Cost: Free Abby Sight Word Games Cost: Free (Lite Version), $ .99 for Cost: Free for Pre-K, all levels unlocked for $1.99 Recommended Ages: 4-7 Recommended for: Pre-K-3rd grade students Recommended Ages: 5-8 additional volumes The most common 1000 sight words are used 13 times more frequently than the next most common 1000 words! Mastering this relatively small group of words yields a high rate of return when it comes to reading and writing. This app divides the words into small manageable sets. You can set up as many as 3 children and the app will maintain 3 separate profiles. Words are presented in context in fun videos. This helps learners understand the meaning of the words, which aids in reading comprehension. The free app covers only 6 words (up, down, come, go, in & out), but more sight words and video content can be purchased from inside the app. Sight Words (Little Speller) Sight Words are words in the English language that do not have a simple one-to-one correspondence between sounds and written letters, and therefore have to be learned by sight. Being able to quickly recognize sight words is a crucial part of learning how to read. Cost: Free Cost: Free Recommended Ages: 4-7+ Recommended Ages: 4+ Fun way to learn words by sight, sound and touch. Very easy to use. Drag letters to spell sight words. Cost: Free Recommended for: 1st & 2nd grade students 5 built-in games make learning seem like play the whole time while the child is learning each word with repetition. Sight Words by Photo Touch Sight Words 2 (eFlash Apps) Rhyming Rhyme-N-Time Abitalk Phonics Rhyming Words Cost: $1.99 Cost: Free (Lite Version, $2.99 (Full Version) Recommended Ages: 5-8 Jane and Blayne are twins, on a quest to find words that rhyme. Hundreds of different words are contained in this app. Rhyme-N-Time also is sprinkled with positive messages like, "Always eat your vegetables!" and "Don't talk to strangers!". Recommended Ages: 5-8 Words appear on animated fruit and users match the rhyme family. Word families included in the free version: ap, at, an, ad, et, it, id, ig, ip, ot, oy and ut. Rhyming Words (GrasshopperApps.com) Cost: Free Recommended Ages: 4+ Users touch photographs to hear their names, then match pairs that rhyme. Frankenstein Matchmaker Phonics Rhyming Bee (Abitalk) Cost: Free Cost: Free Recommended Ages: 9 – Adult Recommended Ages: 4-7 You’ll need to think fast and shoot straight with this challenging rhyming game. Load Cupid’s bow with a matching monster rhyme and take aim. Choose between difficulty levels. Synonyms, Antonyms and Anagrams are available for purchase. You’ll be addicted. Features 28 rhyming groups with 168 short vowel words. Child assigns word families to two flower pots and matches words on petals carried by an animated bee. Rime Time Lite Cost: Free Recommended Ages: 6- Adult See how many rhyming words you can get for a given word. It’s challenging and fun. Word Work (new vocabulary, spelling patterns, vowels, prefixes, suffixes, etc.) Bluster (McGraw-Hill) Cost: Free Lakeshore’s Phonics Tic-Tac-Toe Recommended for: Cost: Free Grades 2-4, single or Recommended Ages: 6-8 multiple player modes In a fun timed game, student chooses to match rhyming words, prefixes, suffixes, word roots, adjectives, synonyms or homophones. Over 800 vocabulary words! ABC Magic Reading 1 Cost: Free Recommended Ages: 5-8 Provides practice blending and segmenting short vowel words. 7 Little Words Cost: Free Recommended Ages: 8-Adult If you enjoy crossword puzzles, word finds and anagram games you’ll love this! 50 puzzles consist of 7 clues, 7 mystery words and 20 letter groups. Find the mystery words by combining the letter groups. This interactive game incorporates vowel sounds, blends, syllables, spelling and more. ABC Magic Reading 2 Abitalk ABC Phonics Long Vowel Words Cost: Free (Lite Version) $2.99 (Full Version) Recommended Ages: 4-7 Teaches kids to recognize 149 words with long vowel sounds. ABC Magic Reading 3 Cost: Free Cost: Free Recommended Ages: 5-8 Recommended Ages: 5-9 Provides practice blending and segmenting words with consonant blends. Provides practice blending and segmenting longer words. Abitalk ABC Phonics Futaba Short Vowel Words Cost: Free Cost: Free (Lite Recommended Ages: 4-8, up to 4 children may play at once Version), $2.99 (Full Version) Recommended Ages: 4-7 Teaches kids to recognize 130 words with short vowel sounds. Children practice phonics by piloting a submarine and shooting torpedoes at words with the vowel sound they are practicing. A fantastic multiplayer game to help children learn new words. Images zoom into the playing area and the first player to match the word to the picture scores a point. Great for ESL students! Howie Finding Vowel Howie Hungry Monster: Build Words Cost: Free (Lite Version ) Full version: $2.99, includes 1,110 words Recommended Ages: 5-9 Child finds the missing vowel in each word. Correct responses result in feeding Howie a hot dog. Howie Word Family Cost: Free (Lite Version) $2.99 (Full Version includes 1,110 words and allows for set-up to control the level of difficulty) Recommended Ages: 5-9 80 words including short vowel, long vowel, bossy R, and other vowel teams. Full version includes a progress report. Cost: Free (Lite Version) $2.99 (Full Version) Recommended Ages: 5-9 This word family game helps your child learn to recognize words by letter patterns. There are 5 levels and the full version of this app offers a progress report. Grammar SparkleFish Cost: Free Recommended Ages: 7 to Adult SparkleFish is a hilarious audio story completion game that will keep you laughing. It works in much the same way as MadLibs, except instead of writing missing words for a story you record them. Then, SparkleFish reads you the story you helped create. Reinforces parts of speech including: verbs, adverbs, adjectives, singular & plural nouns. Verb Mayhem HD Level 1 Cost: Free (Lite Version), $2.99 (Full Version) Recommended Age: 7 Level 2 available for 8 &9 year olds Level 3 available for 10-12 year olds Gameplay self-tunes to the player’s speed. The faster they answer, the faster it goes. Helpful advice is given if they are struggling and positive feedback is provided when they are doing well. Word bank of over 500 words. wiseHopper Cost: Free for Verbs (Additional InApp Purchases available for Pronouns, Adverbs, Adjectives, & Conjunctions) Recommended Ages: 6-12 Help your hopper get to shore by identifying the correct part of speech and hopping it. Watch out, the bullfrog can knock you back to shore! Wordventure! Cost: Free Recommended Age: 9-12+ Kids can learn about parts of speech and have a wonderful time doing it! First, choose a Wordventure story. Then, select nouns, verbs, adjectives or adverbs. Save your completed Wordventure and read your hilarious story! Irregular Plurals Free (Abitalk) Cost: Free (Lite Version -10 words), $2.99 Full version features 51 irregular plural words Recommended Ages: 7-10 An irregular plural is a plural that does not follow the normal rule to append “s” or “es”. Many irregular plurals are animals or fish, such as sheep, deer, moose, salmon and tuna. This app includes 3 different skill levels. Every word is clickable and pronounces the word. Mash Libs (Byington Design) Cost: Free Recommended Age: 8+ A mix between the Mash game and Mad Libs. Questions can be nouns, verbs, people, body parts, adjectives, etc . After entering your answers you pick a “magic number”. This number MASHES your answers together and gives you a one of a kind wacky story tailored to you. Homophones Using I and Me (Abitalk) (Super Duper Publications) Cost: Free Cost: Free (Lite version -15 homophones), $2.99 (Full version-131 homophones) Recommended Ages: 7-10 Homophones are words that sound alike, although they have different spellings and meanings. Students complete sentences using the correct homophone. Irregular Verbs (Abitalk) Cost: Free (Lite Version -20 irregular verbs), $2.99 for the full version which features 155 irregular verbs Recommended Ages: 7-10 Students complete sentences using the correct verb form. Includes three skill levels and a picture for each sentence. Recommended Ages: 6+ 52 illustrated picture cards to practice personal pronouns. Select the cards you want students to see. Track correct and incorrect responses for up to 5 players at a time. Spelling Spellosaur Cost: Free Recommended Ages: 6+ Free version allows a student to add 5 of their own spelling words, then provides activities for learning, reviewing and testing the words. Paid version allows more words and multiple lists and users. Rocket Speller Cost: Free Recommended Ages: 4-10 Correctly place letters to spell the word and earn the rocket modules. Complete each level to launch your rocket and zap stars. 4 levels of difficulty. My Spelling Test Magic Spell (Kids Place) (Funflip Studios) 300 first words in spelling game Cost: Free (Lite Version), $.99 (Full Cost: Free (Lite version includes 27 Version -#1 rated Spelling Test app) Recommended Ages: 6+ This app is like creating your own spelling bee. For each word, children type the word and then record it. Even if you don’t watch your child take the test, you can see which words he or she got wrong afterwards. You can even email results. Little SpellerThree Letter Words Cost: Free (Lite Version) $.99 (Full Version) Recommended Ages: 1-6 Drag letters to spell 3 letter words. Customize using your own voice if desired. words, all 300 words are available with an in-app purchase) Recommended Ages: 4+ Learn correct spelling and pronunciation of the most common first words. Includes 300 first words in 9 categories. Children can use the magic wand if they have trouble finding the next letter. CIMO Can Spell Cost: Free (Lite Version), $2.99 (Full Version) Recommended Ages: 5+ Each correct letter adds blocks of ice to CIMO’s bridge to reach his fish. Incorrect letters land him in the water and he begins again. Includes reports for tracking child’s progress. Multiple Skills Reading Remedies Cost: $.99 Recommended Ages: 4-9 This app provides teachers & parents tools to quickly assess a student for areas of potential reading difficulty, including: rhyming, blending, segmenting, sight words, fluency & word attack. Phonics Silly Sentences 1& 2 Who’s a Smarty Pants? Reading Monster1 (MonsterTown1) Cost: Free Cost: Free Recommended Ages: Pre-k-2nd grade Recommended Ages: 5-8 Evaluates a child’s proficiency in five skill areas: letter knowledge, phonemic awareness, phonics, simple phonetic words and irregular sight words. Calculates the child’s percentile rank relative to thousands of children who have taken the Smarty Pants Assessment Test. PCS BINGO Each of 6 units begins by displaying print and reading a simple story to the child. The child then answers a question about the story by circling something on the screen. Several word matching activities follow. Word to Word (MochiBits, Inc.) Cost: Free Additional Boards: $.99 Cost: Free Recommended Ages: 5-7 Builds reading skills. Features phonics, pronunciation, matching, touch & hear, capital vs. lower case, silly sentences & flashcards. Little Story Maker (GrasshopperApps.com) Recommended Ages: 4+ Includes 4 Bingo boards: animals (vocabulary), articulation, alphabet (language) and a rhyming sample deck. Over 60 additional boards to purchase. White Board (Readpad) Cost: Free Cost: Free Recommended Ages: 5-12 Recommended Age: All Select one of two gorgeous story book templates. Turn your own uploaded photographs into stories, even add your own voice. Choose black, blue or red marker in 3 thicknesses. Write with 1 finger. Erase part of writing with 2 fingers. Erase all with 3 fingers. Cost: Free Recommended Ages: 9-Adult A fun and addictive word association game. Words can be opposites, compound words, have the same meaning or simply be related in some way. LetterSchool (Boreaal) Cost: Free (Lite), $2.99 (Full Version) Recommended Ages: 4-6 LetterSchool is a universal app designed for teaching young children the proper handwriting technique in a fun, non-traditional way. Story Patch Cost: $2.99 Recommended Age: 6-12+ Now you can write your stories on the iPad, using photos from your library or a wide range of clip art. The app will even help you write a story, often with hilarious results depending on how you answer the questions. Your children will have no writer's block here! Picturebook (Maplekey Company, LLC) Cost: Free (In-app purchase upgrade allows you to add your own photos) iDiary for Kids: journaling platform for writing & drawing Recommended Ages: 5-12+ Create and share your very own illustrated stories in a few simple steps! Choose from a constantly updating library of cute pictures. Narrate your story with any text you like. Cost: Free (Lite Version) $1.99 (Full version) Recommended Ages: 5-13 iDiary for Kids is an ideal platform for children to plunge into journaling. Keeping a journal helps them improve their writing skills, develop their creativity and boost their self-confidence. Fluency Timed Reading Fluency Timer Cost: Free (Lite for one user/student) $1.99 (Multiple users/class) Cost: Free or $.99 for the ad-free version Recommended Ages: 5-11 Recommended Ages: 6-12 Allows readers in levels K-4 to practice fluency by reading short, timed stories. Track stories read, words per minute, and percent above or below average reading rates. Fluency Timer is an adjustable timer that automatically records students' fluency readings for playback and sharing. Just press record and the app will automatically stop at the end of one minute (or whatever time you select). It's simple enough for even students to use it. At the end of the recording, name your file and play it back or delete it. Fluency Level 1&2 (bugbrained.com) Cost: $.99 each Recommended Ages: 6-9 Based on Common Core Standards for first and second graders, Fluency Levels 1 & 2 are a fun way for your child to become a fluent reader. Bugs are used to add whimsy and help in the teaching. These tutorials are highly interactive, giving your 1 st and 2nd graders a chance to relate to fluency topics on a personal level and get instant feedback on how they are doing. Books /Comprehension Scholastic Storia I Like Books (Grasshopper Apps) Cost: Free Version includes 5 books Recommended Ages: 3-14 Age-appropriate eBooks for children ranging from 3 to 14 including chapter books and interactive titles. Audio narration, pronunciation tools and phonics and vocabulary activities are key features for emerging readers. Older, established readers can take notes, highlight text, and access videos that offer real-world context for book topics. FarFaria Cost: Free Recommended Ages: 4-7 Approximately 30 “I Like” books. Students may choose options that include Read to Me, Read By Myself & Auto Play. There are multiple free versions of this, some of which designate grade levels, such as K-1 or 1-2. Cost: Free for 30 days; $3.99 per month if you decide to signup; automatically renews each month; cancel anytime Recommended Ages: 2-9 Four new, engaging stories added every week. Unlimited reading in a library of stories. Offline access to your favorite stories. Compiled by: Colleen Woodworth, Reading Specialist [email protected] Eliza Bailey, Reading Specialist [email protected] Terri Fredenburg, Reading Teaching Assistant [email protected]