ELA Reading App

Subject Area: Language Arts

App Title: Curious George Goes Camping by iRead
App Price: $2.99
Language: English
Rationale: This is an excellent app because it incorporates three different reading levels to
accommodate learners growing reading skills.
Standards:
New York State P-12 Common Core
Subject Strand: Standard Standards for Information Text K-5
Grade: Grade 1
Topic: English Language Arts
Item number and statement: 2. Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text
Ontario Curriculum Expectations
Overall Expectations
1. Read and demonstrate an understanding of a variety of literacy, graphic, and informational
texts, using a range of strategies to construct meaning.
Specific Expectations
1.4 Demonstrate understanding of a text by retelling the story or restating information from the
text, including the main idea.





ELL App

Subject Area: Language Arts
App Title: Sentence Builder
App Price: $4.99
Language: English
Rationale: This app helps students develop word recognition, listening, syntax and sentence
building skills. The words are presented in random order and users are asked to place the words
in the correct order to match the sentence that was narrated.
Standards:
New York State P-12 Common Core
Subject Strand: Writing Standards K-5
Grade: Grade 1
Topic: English Language Arts
Item Number and Statement: Production and Distribution of Writing 6. With guidance and
support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in
collaboration with peers.
Ontario Curriculum Expectations
Overall Expectations
3. Use editing, proofreading, and publishing skills and strategies, and knowledge if language
conventions, to correct errors, refine expression, and present their work effectively.
2.4 Write simple but complete sentences that make sense



Choice Area App

Subject Area: Language Arts
App Title: Newsela
App Price: Free
Language: English
Rationale: Newsela is a library of news articles at 5 different reading levels. It helps students
develop a love for reading while educating them on up to the minute current events. All articles
are pre-selected for the students by the teacher and are followed by a short quiz on the article.
Standards:
New York State P-12 Common Core
Subject Strand: Reading Standards for Informational Text K-5
Grade: Grade 4
Topic: English Language Arts
Item Number and Statement: Key Ideas and Details: 1. Refer to details and examples in a text
when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
Ontario Curriculum Expectations
Overall Expectations
1. Read and demonstrate an understanding of a variety of literary, graphic, and informational
texts, using a range of strategies to construct meaning
Specific Expectations
1.8 Express opinions about the ideas and information in the texts and cite evidence from the text
to support their opinion.



Content Area App

Subject Area: Math
App Title: Fruity Fractions
App Price: $2.99
Language: English
Rationale: Students will learn about fractions using real-life objects and through a series of
challenges that increase in difficulty. The activities each include a mini-lesson about the concept
that is covered.
Standards:
ELA Standard
Language Standards K-5
Grade 3 students: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
6. Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-
specific, words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships (e.g.
After dinner that night we went looking for them).
Math Standard
Number & Operations Fractions
Performance Indicator: 3.NF 1. Understand a fraction 1/b as the quantity formed by 1 part
when a whole is partitioned into b equal parts; understand a fraction a/b as the quantity formed
by a parts of size 1/b
Ontario Curriculum Expectations
Overall Expectations
Demonstrate an understanding of magnitude by counting forward and backwards by 0.1 and by
fractional amounts.
Specific Expectations
Represent fractions using concrete materials, words, and standard fractional notation, and explain
the meaning of the denominator as the number of the fractional parts of a whole or a set, and the
numerator as the number of fractional parts being considered.

5. ELA Writing

Subject Area: Language
App Title: Buds Rhyming Words
App Price: $3.99
Language: English
Rationale: This app helps children with rhyming and word association. Its a great interactive
way for students to learn in an effective way using phonics.
Standards:
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards
Subject Strand: Standard Standards for Information Text K-5
Grade: Grade 1
Topic: English Language Arts
Item Number and Statement: 3. Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in
decoding words. Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs..
Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.
Ontario Curriculum Expectations:
Overall Expectations:
2. Recognize a variety of text forms, text features, and stylistic elements and demonstrate
understanding of how they help communicate meaning;

Specific Expectation:
Variety of Texts
1.1 read a few different types of literary texts (e.g., pattern books, rhymes, books from home,
simple fiction stories), graphic texts.



6. SWD App

Subject Area: Math
App Title: playMath addition subtraction
App Price: Free
Language: English
Rationale: This app enhances a young child with these addition and subtraction activities
designed in the spirit of Montessori education. The games are as close to hands-on experiences
as a digital activity can come, and will really help your learner develop an all-important intuitive
understanding of the number system.
Standards:
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards
Subject Strand: Math
Grade: 2
Topic: Addition and Subtraction
Item Number and Statement: 2. Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental
strategies.2 By end of Grade 2, know from memory all sums of two one-digit numbers.
New York State Learning Stands Mathematics
In Grade 2, instructional time should focus on four critical areas: (1) extending
understanding of base-ten notation; (2) building fluency with addition and subtraction;
(3) using standard units of measure; and (4) describing and analyzing shapes.
Ontario Curriculum Expectations
Overall: Solve problems involving the addition and subtraction of one- and two-digit whole
numbers, using a variety of strategies, and investigate multiplication and division.

Specific Expectations: solve problems involving the addition and subtraction of whole numbers
to 18, using a variety of mental strategies (e.g.,To add 6 + 8, I could double 6 and get 12 and
then add 2 more to get 14.)

7. Sciene App

Subject Area: Science
App Title: Animals World for Kids
App Price: $ 0.99
Language: English , Czech, and Russian
Rationale: This app helps to teach students all about animals and see them interact with their
natural environments in this cute, educational app that helps bring animals to life.
Standards:
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards
Subject Strand: Science
Grade: 1
Topic: Animals
Item Number and Statement:
2.2a Plants and animals closely resemble their parents and other individuals in their
species.
2.2b Plants and animals can transfer specific traits to their offspring when they reproduce.

Ontario Curriculum Expectations
Overall:
2. investigate needs and characteristics of plants and animals, including humans;
Specific Expectation:
2.3 investigate and compare the physical characteristics of a variety of plants and animals,
including humans (e.g., some plants produce flowers and some do not; most plants have roots;
some animals have two legs, while others have four; all animals have sense organs)

8. Science App

Subject Area: Science
App Title: My Incredible Body
App Price: $4.99
Language: English
Rationale: This app enables students to discover the human body, region by region. This app
gives students a chance to explore parts of the body such as the brain and nerves, muscles, the
skeleton, and even the kidneys and urine.
Standards:
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards
Subject Strand: Science
Grade: 5
Topic: Human Body
Item Number and Statement: T1.1 Identify needs and opportunities for technical solutions from
an investigation of situations of general or social interest.

T1.1a identify a scientific or human need that is subject to a technological solution which applies
scientific principles
Explain the functioning of the major human organ systems and their interactions.
Major Understandings:
1.2a Each system is composed of organs and tissues which perform specific functions
and interact with each other, e.g., digestion, gas exchange, excretion, circulation, locomotion,
control, coordination, reproduction, and protection from disease.
Ontario Curriculum Expectations:
Overall:
2. investigate the structure and function of the major organs of various human body systems
Specific Expectation: 1.2 evaluate the effects, both beneficial and harmful, of various
technologies on human body systems, taking different perspectives into account (e.g., the
perspectives of the developers of the technologies, advertisers, children and young people,
parents)
2.2 use scientific inquiry/experimentation skills (see page 12) to investigate changes in body
systems (e.g., heart rate, breathing, body temperature) as a result of physical activity (e.g.,
exercise, resting, eating)