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teachers account.
Rationale for Curriculum Use: Raz-Kids is an award-winning website and app where kids can
go to read anytime they like. This App caters to students in kindergarten to grade 5. Teachers
can easily keep track of student’s progress with their online tracking and assessment capabilities.
Raz-Kids helps students to be connected learners and develop their literacy skills further.
ISTE Student Standards: Empowered Learner - Students leverage technology to take an active
role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by
the learning sciences.
• 1a Students articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging
technology to achieve them and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning
outcomes.
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account.
App Languages: English, Arabic, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian,
Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified
Chinese, Spanish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.
Rationale for Curriculum Use: Duolingo is a language learning platform and can be done
through the Duolingo website or app. It can teach you over 23 languages and teachers can track
student progress through the Duolingo dashboard. The premise behind Duolingo is that is can
teach you a language in as little as 5 minutes of practice a day. This app would benefit ELL
students in a classroom or students who are beginning to learn a new language in the school
system (i.e. French or Spanish classes)
ISTE Educator Standards: Analyst - Educators understand and use date to drive their
instruction and support students in achieving their learning goals.
• 7a Provide alternative ways for students to demonstrate competency and reflect on their
learning using technology.
ISTE Student Standards: Empowered Learner - Students leverage technology to take an active
role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by
the learning sciences.
• 1c Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and
to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
App Price: Free to play or implement. Premium Family Membership $8.95 per
month or $59.88 per year.
Rationale for Curriculum Use: Prodigy covers a wide variety of content from grades 1-8.
Teachers can monitor student’s progress in real-time through the online dashboard. This app
allows students the ability to problem solve and make self-corrections. Students are able to learn
at their own pace and teachers can see where students need support.
ISTE Student Standards: Empowered Learner - Students leverage technology to take an active
role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by
the learning sciences.
• 1c Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and
to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
ISTE Student Standards: Innovative Designer - Students use a variety of technologies within a
design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful or imaginative solutions.
• 4a Students know and use a deliberate design process for generating ideas, testing
theories, creating innovative artifacts or solving authentic problems.
App Languages: English, Arabic, Catalan, Chinese (Hong Kong), Croatian, Czech, Danish,
Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian,
Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified
Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.
Rationale for curriculum use: An easy-to-use video-making and editing app, iMovie allows for
students and teachers to make information more engaging and to creatively display new learning.
iMovie can be used in a variety of ways such as recording field trips or interesting places for
informational purposes, showcasing new learning in creative ways, for digital story telling and
for sharing new knowledge with others.
ISTE Student Standards: Creative Communicator - Students communicate clearly and express
themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and
digital media appropriate to their goals.
• 6b: Students create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital
resources into new creations.
NYS P-12 Common Core/NYS Standards: ELA- Presentation of knowledge and Ideas
• 2SL5 Include digital media and/or visual displays in presentations to clarify or support
ideas, thoughts, and feelings.
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options available for schools. Free apps available with limited content.
Rationale for curriculum use: This award-winning app is an interactive and engaging tool for
children in Kindergarten to grade 5. It can be used on different devices such as desktops and
iPads and provides a brilliant way for practicing curriculum expectations. Divided into lessons, a
child is able to navigate at his or her own speed moving onto something more challenging when
ready. In addition, the app provides a wonderful dashboard for teachers and parents to identify
strengths and areas that need improvement.
ISTE Student Standards: Empowered Learner - Students leverage technology to take an active
role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by
the learning sciences.
• 1c: Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their
practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
NYS P-12 Common Core/NYS Standards: Strand: Mathematics - Operations and Algebraic
Thinking Grade 2
• NY-2.OA
• 1b: Use addition and subtraction within 100 to develop an understanding of solving two-
step word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together,
taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions.
Rationale for curriculum use: A useful app for all children, in particular those that struggle
with decoding and reading. The app helps children to decode difficult words and models how to
sound them out. Furthermore, it teaches students how to chunk the word into syllables, how to
blend phonemes together, etc. The app has a variety of modes which allow students to simply
take a photo of the page and isolate a word, upload pages in an image gallery or type in difficult
words.
ISTE Educator Standards: Designer - Educators design authentic, learner-driven activities and
environments that recognize and accommodate learner variability.
• 5a- Use technology to create, adapt and personalize learning experiences that
foster independent learning and accommodate learner differences and needs.
ISTE Student Standards: Empowered Learner - Students leverage technology to take an active
role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by
the learning sciences.
• 1c: Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their
practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
NYS P-12 Common Core/NYS Standards: Strand: ELA - Phonics and Word Recognition
Grade 2
• 2RF3: Know and apply phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Rationale for curriculum use: Write About This is a writing app that inspires students to start
writing. With hundreds of visual, text and voice prompts, it challenges writers to think critically,
be creative, etc. Teachers and students can search for categories, specific prompts or upload their
own prompts to suit a learning unit. There are different levels of complexity. In addition,
students can read and record their writing and their work can be shared with others via e-mail.
This app is multi-user friendly and will save work by author making it an effective tool for
assessment.
ISTE Student Standards: Creative Communicator - Students communicate clearly and express
themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and
digital media appropriate to their goals.
• 6c: Students communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or
using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations.