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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
cwoodworth@lafayetteschools.org
Eliza Bailey, Reading Specialist
ebailey@lafayetteschools.org
Terri Fredenburg, Reading Teaching Assistant
tfredenburg@lafayetteschools.org