Cost: $2.99 Primary, Kindergarten, 1st Grade
ABCDESK is an innovative alphabet and ABC book. It lets teachers and parents create and share learning opportunities for children, helping them to develop their reading and writing skills. Adults can set difficulty levels, add new words, and exchange lessons and resources. Lessons can be downloaded from abcdesk.net and lessons can be created and shared with friends.
Cost: Free For all grade levels
This app works as good as the web-based version.
Cost: $3.99 Primary, Kindergarten, 1st Grade
Start reading with phonics-based interactive games and reading. Children can advance on to next level as they improve.
Lite version is free but has a limited number of sentences.
Cost: Free Pre-K, Primary, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade
An iPad app that is a learning-to-read platform for children. This version comes with two free books. Additional books are $ .99. The books all have "tap any word" functionality allowing children to tap words they find challenging and hear them read aloud to them.
Cost: Free Pre-K, Primary, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
Doodle tales is aimed at children from preschool right through to early teens and allows them to be creative by making their own pictures (Doodles) and stories (Tales) and sharing them simply and safely with their friends, relatives and the wider world.
The app combines a fully featured, best of class, art package; with an intuitive story making tool and the ability to easily, and safely, share Doodles and Tales with the inbuilt social community.
Cost: $1.99 Primary, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
This app has photo templates from Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat book.
Cost: Free For all grade levels
Over 20,000 classic books, sorted by collections, genre, authors. You could find these books on other websites, but this app is very well organized. You can import you own ebooks as well.
Cost: Free Primary, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade
Students read fluency passages and are timed. Individual students can be entered with reading level. Keeps time and words per minute. Can't track errors or verify students read whole passage if done individually.
Cost: Free Primary, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade
This app allows students to use photos on an iPad to create a story with pictures and text. Additionally, students can add a narration to the story as well. Parts of the pictures can be clickable with additional narration and text.
Cost: Free Primary, Kindergarten, 1st Grade
Practice reading anytime, anywhere. A new book is available everyday.
These mobile apps are apps used by teachers around the state for instruction and education. Each app has been put under its appropriate levels and content areas, and can be filtered using the links below.