Subject Area: ELA Reading App Title: Reading Island Adventures (Lite) or (Full) App Price: Free - $6.99 Languages: English
Rationale: This online reading program has three island maps that comprise a total of 75 lessons with instruction and practice in advanced phonics, sight words, vocabulary and reading comprehension. Examples of skills covered include short vowel sounds, consonant blends, digraphs, suffixes, silent e words and long vowels. Students can progress up to Island Adventure maps 2 and 3 and is particularly suited to beginning readers, struggling readers or ELL students.
Standards:
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards for ELA Standard Strand: Reading: Foundational Skillls 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.
Ontario Curriculum Expectations Subject Strand: Language - Reading Overall Expectation: By the end of Grade 1, students will: 3. Use knowledge of words and cueing systems to read fluently; Specific Expectation: 3.2 predict the meaning of and solve unfamiliar words using different types of cues, including semantic cues, syntactic cues, graphophonic cues
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Subject Area: ELA Writing App Title: Popplet App Price: 4.99 Languages: English (although you can write in any language)
Rationale: Popplet is a brainstorming, mind-mapping tool. It allows students to easily create a graphic organizer for all their writing projects. Popplet can also be used as a presentation tool with added videos, photos or drawings. Selecting presentation mode will allow students to select the order in which the presentation zooms in to each popplet. Sharing and collaborating between students is also possible and great for mind mapping a group project.
Standards:
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards for ELA Standard Strand: Writing Grade: 4 Topic: Text Types and Purposes Item number and statement: 1A. Introduce a topic or text clearly, state an opnion, and create an organizational structure in whihcrelated idas are grouped to suppor the writers purpose.
Ontario Curriculum Expectations Subject Strand: Language - Reading Overall Expectation: By the end of Grade 4, students will: 1. Generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and audience Specific Expectation: 1.4 sort and classify ideas and information for their writing in a variety of ways (e.g., by underlining key words and phrases; by using graphic and print organizers such as mind maps, concept maps, timelines, jot notes, bulleted lists)
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Subject Area: English Language Learners App Title: Sock Puppets App Price: Free (with optional in app purchases) Languages: English (although you can record in any language)
Rationale: Sock Puppets is a storytelling app that allows students to create their own puppet shows with different characters, backgrounds, props and scenery. Students can write their own scripts, record them and then watch as the puppets automatically lip- synch to their own voices. Students can create multiple puppets and work together in pairs or groups to design their own storytelling masterpiece. ELL students would benefit from this app by practicing conversational language, or integrating new vocabulary into script building. Students in any grade level and ability can use this app.
Standards:
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards for ELA Standard Strand: Speaking and Listening Grade: 2 Topic: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas Item number and statement: 6. Create audio recordings of stories or poems; add drawings or other visual displays to stories or recounts of experiences when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.
Ontario Curriculum Expectations Subject Strand: Language - Oral Communication Overall Expectation: By the end of Grade 2, students will: 2. use speaking skills and strategies appropriately to communicate with different audiences afor a vareiety of purposes Specific Expectation: 2.5 Vocal Skills and Strategies: identify some vocal effects, including tone, pace, pitch and volume, and use them appropriately and with sensitivity towards cultural differences, to help communicate their meaning
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Subject Area: Students with Disabilities App Title: Dragon Dictation App Price: Free Languages: U.S, UK and Australian English, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Taiwan Mandarin, Cantonese, Czech, Korean, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Malaysia, Hebrew, Hungarian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, European and Canadian French, German, Greek, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, European and Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Romanian, Russian, European and American Spanish, Slovak, Swedish, Standard Arabic, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Thai and Croatian
Rationale: Dragon Dictation is an easy-to-use voice recognition tool that transcribes your spoken words into typed text. The text can be edited, then emailed, texted, sent to social media, or copied into any app on your device. This app is useful for students with accessibility issues that may affect their ability to type or manipulate a mouse. It is also useful for students with dyslexia and allows all students the opportunity to get the words out of their head and onto the paper more efficiently. Students in any grade can use this app for independent writing assignments.
Standards:
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards for ELA Standard Strand: Literacy - Writing Standards 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 Subject Strand: Language - Writing Overall Expectation: By the end of Grade 2, students will: 1. generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and audience; Specific Expectation: 1.2 generate ideas about a potential topic, using a variety of strategies and resources
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Subject Area: Mathematics App Title: Telling Time - Photo Touch Game App Price: $0.99 Languages: English, multilingual as you can customize to record any language.
Subject Area: Mathematics App Title: Telling Time - Digital Clock by Photo Touch App Price: Free Languages: English, multilingual as you can customize to record any language.
Rationale: These two apps help learners develop skills reading analogue and digital clocks. Lessons can be customized to the level of the learner. Voice and clock images may be customized so that recorded voice or pictures of familiar clocks can be included to make the game more personal.
Standards:
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards for Mathematics Standard Strand: Measurement & Data Grade: 2 Topic: C. Work with time and money. Item number and statement: 7. Tell and write time from analog and digital clock to the nearest five minutes, using a.m. and p.m.
Ontario Curriculum Expectations Subject Strand: Mathematics - Measurement Overall Expectation: By the end of Grade 3, students will: Estimate, measure, and record length, perimeter, area, mass, capacity, tume, and temperature, uisng standard units; Specific Expectation: Read time using analogue clocks, to the nearest five minute, and using digital clocks
THERES AN APP FOR THAT 6 Subject Area: Science App Title: Pettsons Inventions App Price: 1.99 (also a FREE lite version available) Languages: English, German, Swedish
Rationale: This app promotes critical thinking and logic skills. Students must create quirky contraptions to accomplish various goals. This app allows students to work with the physics of pulleys and gears, cogs and levers as well as other more odd items such as cows and carrots to complete the level. The level of difficulty can be adjusted and the levels progress from easiest to hardest.
Standards:
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards for ELA Standard Strand: Reading: Informational Text Grade: 4 Topic: Craft and Structure Item number and statement: 4. Determine the meaning of general academic and domain- specific words or phrases in a text relevant to a grade 4 topic or subject area. New York State Standards for Elementary Science Standard 4: The Physical Setting Key Idea: 5. Energy and matter interact through forces that result in changes in motion. Performance Indicator: 5.1f Mechanical energy may cause change in motion through the application of force and through the use of simple machines such as pulleys, levers, and inclinded planes.
Ontario Standards: Science and Technology Overall Expectations: By the end of Grade 4, students will: 2 investigate ways in which pulleys and gears modify the speed and direction of, and the force exerted on, moving objects Specific Expectations: 2.3 use technological problem-solving skills to design, build and test a pulley or gear system that performs a specific task
THERES AN APP FOR THAT 7 Subject Area: ELA - Writing App Title: ComicBook! App Price: 1.99 Languages: English (although any language can be written in)
Rationale: This app allows students to create their own comic books from their own photos. Students can style their comic books with authentic comic fonts, captions, graphics and multi-panel page layouts. This app can work for students of any level or ability.
Standards:
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards for ELA Standard Strand: Literacy - Writing Standards Grade: 5 Topic: Text Types and Purposes Item number and statement: 3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences
Ontario Curriculum Expectations Subject Strand: Language - Writing Overall Expectation: By the end of Grade 5, 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 Expectation: 3.7 use a range of appropriate elements of effective presentation in the finished product, including print, script, different fonts, graphics, and layout
THERES AN APP FOR THAT 8 Subject Area: Social Studies App Title: Wonders of Old Medieval Timeline App Price: 4.99 Languages: English
Rationale: This reference app presents historical facts in a beautiful timeline manner. The timeline allows students to compare events across the world and make connections between kingdoms, empires and countries. Wonders of Old is a 4-part app dividing the event of world history into four historical time periods: ancient, medieval, new world and modern.
Standards:
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards for ELA Standard Strand: Reading: Informational Text Grade: 6 Topic: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas Item number and statement: 7. Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.
New York State k-8 Social Studies Framework Grade: 6 Key Idea: 6.6 MEDITERRANEAN WORLD: FEUDAL WESTERN EUROPE, THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE, AND THE ISLAMIC CALIPHATES (ca. 600 C.E. ca. 1450) Performance Indicator: 6.6d Competition and rivalry over religious, economic, and political control over the holy lands led to conflict such as the Crusades. Ontario Standards: Science and Technology Overall Expectations: By the end of Grade 4, students will: A3. Understanding Context: demonstrate an understanding of key aspects of a few early societies (3000 BCE1500 CE), each from a different region and era and representing a different culture, with reference to their political and social organization, daily life, and relationships with the environment and with each other Specific Expectations: A3.9 describe some key reasons why different groups in early societies cooperated or came into conflict at different times