Rationale:

The app allows students to create digital felt boards with which they can recreate stories and facilitate retells of their reading adventures.
Feltboards can be archived.

Standards:

New York State P-12 Common Core Standards
Standard Strand: Reading Standards for Literature K5 [RL]
Grade: 1
Topic: Key Ideas and Details
Item number and statement:
2. Retell stories, including key details, and
demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
Ontario Curriculum Expectations
Grade 1 Reading: By the end of Grade 1, students will:
2. recognize a variety of text forms, text features, and stylistic elements and demonstrate understanding of how they help communicate meaning;
Specific Expectations
Reading for Meaning: By the end of Grade 1, students will:
Demonstrating Understanding
1.4 demonstrate understanding of a text by retelling the story or restating information from the text, including the main idea (e.g., retell a story or
restate facts, including the main idea and important events, in accurate time order; role-play or dramatize a story or informational text using puppets
or props)

Subject Area: ELA Reading
App Title: Feltboard
App Price: $2.99
Languages: English


Rationale:
This app is billed as the simplest publishing app for the iPad. Learners draw, insert photographs, apply stickers and write text to create their own
book. These books can then be archived and shared through email, read aloud, or published through iBooks. This app can be shared by multiple
authors across multiple iPads to allow for collaboration. Audio recording is also supported.
Standards:
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards
Standard Strand: Writing Standards K5 [W]
Grade: 2
Topic: Production and Distribution of Writing
Item number and statement: 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
Grade 2 Writing: By the end of Grade 2, students will:
3. use editing, proofreading, and publishing skills and strategies, and knowledge of language conventions, to correct errors, refine expression, and
present their work effectively;
Specific Expectations:
3. Applying Knowledge of Language Conventions and Presenting Written
Work Effectively: By the end of Grade 2, students will:
Publishing
3.7 use some appropriate elements of effective presentation in the finished product, including print, different fonts, graphics, and layout (e.g., use
legible printing, spacing, margins, varied print size, and colour for emphasis; include a simple labelled diagram in a report; supply a caption for a
photograph or illustration)

Subject Area: ELA Writing
App Title: My Story Bookmaker for kids
App Price: $3.99
Languages: English


Rationale:
Bitsboard is a customizable vocabulary builder utilizing multiple game formats (Flashcards, Memory, Match Up, Sentence Builder, etc.). The app
comes preloaded with various games, allows for individual creation/modification of games and provides access to a network of shared resources.
For the student mastery is tracked and difficulty can be set through an evaluative algorithm. This app is applicable across numerous grades.
Standards:
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards
Standard Strand: Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (K5) [RF]
Grade: 1
Topic: Phonics and Word Recognition
Item number and statement: 3. Know and apply grade-level phonics and
word analysis skills in decoding words.
a. Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs.
b. Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.
c. Know final -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds.
d. Use knowledge that every syllable must have a vowel sound to determine the number of syllables in a printed word.
e. Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables.
f. Read words with inflectional endings.
g. Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
Ontario Curriculum Expectations


Subject Area: ELL English Language Learners
App Title: Bitsboard
App Price: FREE (Pro version available @ $4.99)
Languages: English, German, Romanian, Spanish


Rationale:
Dream Box Math is an adaptive math program linked to Common Core and Ontario curriculums. Students are taught mathematical concepts
through exploration and games. Each and every click is analyzed and informs lessons downstream. Unlike most math apps Dream Box
emphasizes conceptual understanding and algebraic functions as compared to rote drill. Also, student progress is tracked with downloadable
performance reports and emails regarding benchmark achievements. This app does cover material from K-8. It does not, however, cover the
complete mathematics curriculum.
Standards:
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards
Standard Strand: Operations and Algebraic Thinking [3.OA.1]
Grade: 3
Topic: Represent and solve problems involving multiplication and division.
Item number and statement: 1. Interpret products of whole numbers, e.g.,
interpret 5 7 as the total number of objects in 5 groups of 7 objects each. For example, describe a context in which a total number of objects can
be expressed as 5 7.
Ontario Curriculum Expectations
Number Sense and Numeration
Overall Expectations:
By the end of Grade 3, students will:
solve problems involving the addition and subtraction of single- and multi-digit whole numbers, using a variety of strategies, and demonstrate an
understanding of multiplication and division.
Specific Expectations:



Subject Area: Math
App Title: Dream Box Math
App Price: Free
Languages: English, Spanish


Rational:
Building Popsicle stick bridges in science class are a fond memory for many of us. Naturally, there is an app for that. Simple Physics introduces the
basics of engineering by asking students to build simple structures. They must also take into consideration wind speed, maximum weight and
budget before completing a level.
Standards:
New York State Science Standards
Standard Strand: Science
Standard1Analysis, Inquiry, and Design
Students will use mathematical analysis, scientific inquiry, and engineering design, as appropriate, to pose questions, seeks answers, and develop
solutions.
Scientific Inquiry: Key Idea 2:
Beyond the use of reasoning and consensus, scientific inquiry involves the testing of proposed explanations involving the use of conventional
techniques and procedures and usually requiring considerable ingenuity.
Ontario Curriculum
Overall Expectations
Grade 1 Science:
By the end of Grade 1, students will:
assess the impact on people and the environment of objects and structures and the materials used in them;
investigate structures that are built for a specific purpose to see how their design and materials suit the purpose;
Specific Expectations
By the end of Grade 1, students will:
3.4 describe the function/purpose of the observable characteristics (e.g., texture, height, shape, colour) of various objects and structures, using
senses

Subject Area: Science
App Title: Simple Physics (iOS/Amazon)
App Price: $1.99
Languages: English



Purpose: Speech Trainer 3-D is a unique application created specifically to help individuals with speech-sound disorders and English
language learners. Speech Trainer 3-D provides an animated video model for both consonants and vowel sounds. With both a side and front view,
Speech Trainer 3-D provides 32 English language sounds: 23 consonants and 8 vowels. Designed by a certified speech-language pathologist,
Speech Trainer 3-D is perfect for those individuals struggling with sound production and for use by SLPs, special educators, and parents alike.
Standards:
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards
Standard Strand: Reading Standards for Literature K5
Grade: 4
Topic: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Item number and statement: 7. Make connections between the text of a story or drama and a visual or oral presentation of the text, identifying where
each version reflects specific descriptions and directions in the text.
Ontario Curriculum Expectations
Grade 1 Language
Overall Expectations
By the end of Grade 1, students will:
reflect on and identify their strengths as listeners and speakers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful in oral
communication situations.
Specific Expectations
Reflecting on Oral Communication Skills and Strategies:
By the end of Grade 1, students will:
3.2 begin to identify how their skills as viewers, representers, readers, and writers help them improve their oral communication skills



Subject Area: Students with Disabilities
App Title: Speech Trainer 3-D
App Price: $7.99
Languages: English



Purpose: The Britannica Concise Encyclopedia app, with over 25,000 articles and 2,700 images covering the arts, business, geography,
history, pop culture, science, sports, and more.
Standards:
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards
Standard Strand: Reading Standards for Informational Text K5
Grade: 2
Topic: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
Item number and statement:
By the end of year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, in the grades 23 text
complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range
Ontario Curriculum Expectations
Overall Expectations
Grade 3 Reading
By the end of Grade 1, students will:
read and demonstrate an understanding of a variety of literary, graphic, and informational texts, using a range of strategies to construct meaning;
Specific Expectations
Reading for Meaning
By the end of Grade 1, students will:
read a variety of literary texts (e.g.,fables, traditional Aboriginal stories, poetry, chapter books, adventure stories, letters, diaries), graphic texts (e.g.,
comic books, posters, charts, tables, maps, graphs), and informational texts (e.g.,How to books, print and electronic reference sources, magazine
articles)

Subject Area: Choice App (Multiple Subjects)
App Title: Britannica Concise Encyclopedia app
App Price: $1.99
Languages: English



Purpose:
Wouldnt it be mind-boggling to look inside the human body and see how the heart, lungs, muscles, and bones work? Wouldnt it be astonishing to
see what swallowing, breathing, and digesting look like from the inside? With My Incredible Body, both children and adults can learn all the pieces
and parts of human anatomy in an incredibly
Standards:
New York State Comprehensive Health Education Curriculum
Grades K-5:
HealthTeacher, is a comprehensive, skill- and assessment-based, elementary school health education curriculum that focuses on the following nine
units of study:
Anatomy
Ontario Curriculum Expectations
Overall Exepcations
Grade 1 Reading
By the end of Grade 2, students will:
describe parts of the human body, the functions of these parts, and behaviours that contribute to good health.
Specific Expectations
By the end of Grade 2, students will:
distinguish the similarities and differences between themselves and others (e.g., in terms of body size or gender


Subject Area: Choice App (Health and Fitness)
App Title: My Incredible Body
App Price: $4.99
Languages: English