1.

ELA Reading App

Subject Area: Reading

App Title: Snap Teach- Reading Comprehension Skills Grades 1-2
App Price: $1.99
Languages: English
Rationale: Snap Teach- Reading Comprehension Skills App is a great app. Students using this
app will become better readers because it has listening segments where students can become
familiar with more difficult words, and it has animal passages containing great visuals. It also
includes different ways to test reading comprehension. This app has the option for children to
work at their own pace. There are different modes on this app, which are practice mode, which
gives students feedback with audio and visual cues to questions, and test mode, which prepares
the students for authentic testing situations requiring them to carefully assess questions.
Standards:
ISTE Standards for Students:

 Empowered Learner- 1c: 1c: Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and
improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.

ISTE Standards for Educators:

 Analyst- 1b: Use technology to design and implement a variety of formative and
summative assessments that accommodate learner needs, provide timely feedback to
students and inform instruction.

New York State P-2 Common Core Standards

 Standard Strand: Reading: Literature

 Grade: 2
 Topic: Key Ideas and Details
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 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.1
Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate
understanding of key details in a text.

2. ELA Writing App

Subject Area: English Language Arts: Creative Writing
App title: My Story Book Maker
App Price: Free
Languages: English
Rationale: This app is highly engaging, well designed and it puts students’ focus on content
creation. This app has a ton of drawing tools, colors, photos, text and voice recording so students
can tell their story. It gives students a chance to create their own stories, and create their own
characters in a way that is interesting to them. It gives students a way to be creative by using
technology to assist them when writing the story.

Standards:

ISTE Standards for Students:

6a. Creative Communicator: Students choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting
the desired objectives of their creation or communication.

ISTE Standards for Educators:

6b. Facilitator: Manage the use of technology and student learning strategies in digital
platforms, virtual environments, hands-on makerspaces or in the field.
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards
 Topic: Writing
 Grade: 2
 Standard Strand: Text Topic and Purposes
 CCSS. ELA- LITERACY. W.2.2
 Write informative/explanatory texts in which they introduce a topic, use facts and
definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or section.
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3. ELL App
Subject Area: ELA, ELL
App Title: Brain Pop ELL
Price: Free
Languages: English, French, Spanish
Rationale: This app is an English Language Learner app that is great for student who are new to
learning English. This app is great for student in primary grade students who are beginning to
learn the English The app offers 18 free lessons across all skill levels, and the following
upgrades are available via in-app purchase: Level 1 (Beginners), Level 2 (Intermediate), and
Level 3 (Advanced Lessons). Students can use this app via IPad, IPhone, or tablet. BrainPOP
ELL engages students in short movies that get them to interact with conversational English. In
these levels, there are vocabulary lessons, flash card words and students can record their voice
speaking a phrase and the app to help understanding. It is very user friendly and engaging for
students learning English and can be used in an ELL classroom or even at home with their
parents.
Standards:
 ISTE Standards for Students: 1c. Empowered Learner: Use technology to seek
feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a
variety of ways.
 ISTE Standards for Educators: 7a: Analyst: Provide alternative ways for students to
demonstrate competency and reflect on their learning using technology

New York State P-12 Common Core Standards:

 Standard Strand: Language Standards K-12
 Grade: 2
 Topic: Speaking & Listening
 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.2.2
Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented
orally or through other media.
 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.2.3
Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to clarify comprehension,
gather additional information, or deepen understanding of a topic or issue.
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. 4. The Sounding Out Machine (SWD)

Subject Area: ELA, Phonics
App Price: $3.99
Languages: English
Rationale: The Sounding Out Machine is an ideal tool for those students that don't grasp the
concepts right away and continue to struggle with what is known as "decoding". This app can
also help with struggling readers. The sounding out machine helps children focus on hard words
for them when reading, and then models/teach them how to sound out those difficult words.
Children with an enriched environment are being exposed to skills needed for reading readiness
This app shows ways of Storytelling, print and book awareness, playing with words as in
rhyming, clapping or stomping out syllables are all great ways to get the ball rolling. This app
can be used for all students. This app emails a report of the child/students challenging words to
parents or teachers giving an account of words looked up each session and this list and can be
used for data collection, further instruction, re-teaching, or for creating personal word lists for
their students or child.

Standards:
ISTE Standards for Students:
3c. Knowledge Constructor: Curate information from digital resources using a variety of tools
and methods to create collections of artifacts that demonstrate meaningful connections or
conclusions.
ISTE Standards for Educators:
3b. Citizen: Establish a learning culture that promotes curiosity and critical examination of
online resources and fosters digital literacy and media fluency.
NY State P-12 Common Core Standards
 Grade 2
 Standard Strand: Reading: Foundation Skills (It can be used in many grades)
 Topic: Phonics and Word Recognition
 CCSS. ELA-LITERACY.RF.2.3
 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.2.3.A
Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words.
 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.2.3.B
Know spelling-sound correspondences for additional common vowel teams
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5. Content Area #1 (Math)

App Title: LogTera: 2nd Grade Math: Addition, Subtraction, Place Value
App Price: $9.99
Subject Area: Mathematics
Rationale: LogTera 2nd Grade Math is a great app combining comprehensive learning with
high-quality entertainment and fun for children ages 4 to 8 years. The app has a Safari theme that
keeps children engaged and motivated while learning new skills. Children can answer math
questions to earn coins that they can use to add more animals to the safari and to buy favorite
food of their animals. Donna, the dinosaur is the safari guide who helps children navigate
through the safari and the math questions. Children can take a break and visit the interactive
safari where they can play with the animals. The app contains kid-friendly rich graphics,
animations, voices, and intuitive click, drag and drop type questions, etc. This app also includes
personalized learning which means it adjusts difficulty level to match child’s performance and
learning requirements, and auto solve which helps kids get to the right solution for each question.
It also gives real-time feedback and performance reports which are provided for learners,
parents, and teachers. It touches up on tons of 2nd grade math skills, 1500 questions and more
than 100 skills.
Standards:
ISTE Standards for Students:
1c: Empowered Learner: use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their
practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
ISTE Standards for Educators:
6d. Facilitator: Model and nurture creativity and creative expression to communicate ideas,
knowledge, or connections.
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards:
 Standard Strand: Operations and Algebra K-12
 Grade: 2
 Topic: Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.
 CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.OA.A.1
Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve one- and two-step word problems
involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and
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comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a
symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

6. Content Area #2 Science

App Title: Weather by Tinybop
App Price: $2.99
Subject Area: Science
Language: English
Rationale: This app is great for teaching students about the elements of weather such as heat,
water, and air. Students will be able to jump right in and create different scenarios and put
themselves in the shoes of being in different weather conditions. It has a ton of vocabulary for
these students and its very interactive. It includes a handbook which is full of facts, interaction
hints, and discussion questions to support learning in this app, in the classroom or at home.

Standards:
ISTE Standards for Students:
 3b. Knowledge Constructor: Evaluate the accuracy, perspective, credibility,
and relevance of information, media, data or other resources.

ISTE Standards for Educators:

 3b. Facilitator: Manage the use of technology and student learning strategies in
digital platforms, virtual environments, hands- on makerspaces or in the field.

New York State P-12 Common Core Standards:

 Grade 2
 Key Idea 2: Many of the phenomena that we observe on Earth involve interactions
among components of air, water, and land.
Major Understandings: 2.1a Weather is the condition of the outside air at a particular
moment.
 2.1b Weather can be described and measured by: • temperature • wind speed and
direction • form and amount of precipitation • general sky conditions (cloudy, sunny,
partly cloudy)
 2.1c Water is recycled by natural processes on Earth. • evaporation: changing of water
(liquid) into water vapor (gas) • condensation: changing of water vapor (gas) into water
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(liquid) • precipitation: rain, sleet, snow, hail • runoff: water flowing on Earth’s surface •
groundwater: water that moves downward into the ground.

7. App Choice: #1
App Title: Quizlet
App Price: Free
Subject Area: All Subjects
Language: English

Rationale: Quizlet is a quiz tool that focusses on terms and definitions. As a teacher, you add a
class and make a quiz. Students can download the app and search for a quiz made by their
teacher. Students can even make their own study sets. They just have to open their teacher’s
study set and choose what game they want to play. They can take a test, opt for the learn mode,
learn by flashcards or match terms with their definitions. Quizlet Live lets students work together
in order to find the right word or definition to the description. It’s made for practicing terms and
definitions. It can also be used in English by asking questions about and having answers on the
back of them. This can help and be a great study tool as well with future tests.

Standards:
ISTE Standards for Students:
 1c. Empowered Learner: use technology to seek feedback that inform and improves

ISTE Standards for Educators:

 5b. Designer: Design authentic learning activities that align with content area
standards and use digital tools and resources to maximize, deep learning.

New York State P-12 Common Core Standards

 Standard Strand: Reading Standards for Literature K-5 (RL)
 Grade: 2
 Topic: Key Ideas and Details:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.1
Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate
understanding of key details in a text.
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8. App Choice #2
App Title: Flocabulary
App Price: Free to try then ($4.99 monthly subscription to get access to a lot more)
Subject Area: Math, Science, Social Studies, English, Physical Education (students can
dance while they are listening to the hip hop songs).
Language: English
Rationale: Flocabulary uses music and storytelling to engage kids and teens. This app helps kids
expand their vocabularies and learn about school subjects in a fun and exciting way. Educational
Hip-Hop for K-12 is a video app that uses rhyme and rhythm to help kids learn many school
subjects, life skills, and vocabulary. There are videos for kids age 5 to teens, and parents can set
the grade level to limit video choices to those that are appropriate for their kid's age. After
choosing and viewing a brief video, kids can take a Challenge quiz, learn vocabulary definitions,
and read the full lyrics for each of the more than 800 videos.

Standards:
ISTE Standards for Students:
 1c: Empowered Learner: use technology to seek feedback that informs and
improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways

ISTE Standards for Educators:

 3b: Citizen: Establish a learning culture that promotes curiosity and critical
examination of online resources and fosters digital literacy and media fluency

New York State P-12 Common Core Standards:

 Standard Strand: Language & Algebra
 Grade: 2 (many grades are included as well)
 Topic: Conventions of Standard English & Understanding Place Value
 CCSS. ELA- LITERACY. L.2.1.F
Produce, expand, and rearrange complete, simple and compound sentences
 CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.NBT.A.1.A
100 can be thought of as a bundle of ten tens — called a “hundred.”
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(They have videos to cover many different standards)