READING
Read Me Stories
Stories highlight the text as it is read aloud. Students can choose to listen to the story being read or to read it to him or herself. However there is no way to change from one to the other in the middle of the story and the student cannot have words repeated while a book is being read.
iBooks
The Apple eBook reader app. eBooks created with edu.ePubbud.com are placed right on your iBook shelf.
K-12 Timed Reading Practice Lite
Free app that helps students work on reading fluency.
Chicktionary
Very motivational free app to help students work on vocabulary skills.
Kiwa Media
There are 30 Milly and Molly books in Spanish that are available for free download. Titles in English are low cost.
abc Lite
THREE-APPS-IN-ONE
The free version allows you to try out the app. The full version of abc PocketPhonics combines in one app:
✔ Letter sounds
✔ Letter writing
✔ 170 first words
The free version allows you to try out the app. The full version of abc PocketPhonics combines in one app:
✔ Letter sounds
✔ Letter writing
✔ 170 first words
Story Kit
Create an electronic storybook. Write some text, illustrate by drawing on the screen, taking a photograph of something you see, or drawing on paper and then photographing the paper, or attaching photos from your album. Sounds can be recorded for telling your story or as sound effects. Layout the elements of your story (text boxes, images, and sound clips) freely by dragging them or pinching to resize. Add, reorder, or delete pages from your book. Your story is always saved in your iPad. Carry it with you and work on it any time. Upload your story to the StoryKit web server and email a link to the story from within the app. No account is necessary. Stories are private.
AlphabytesLite
Four entertaining ways to learn about the alphabet, writing, spelling, and memorization. Kids will love learning the alphabet with fully animated interactions for every letter. They can also learn to write uppercase and lowercase letters through the repetition of tracing. Kids learn spelling words by playing with their food. A new twist on the classic memory game helps child associate letters and words with visuals.
Free Books
This $1.99 app provides access to thousands of public domain books. There is a children's section with many read-aloud classic favorites.
Rainbow Sentences
Rainbow Sentences is designed to help students improve their ability to construct grammatically correct sentences by using color coded visual cues. The who, what, where, and why parts of sentences are color coded to help students recognize and understand how combinations of these parts create basic sentence structure. The color coding can be removed when students are ready for agreater challenge. Students have the opportunity to record their sentences in their own voice to improve their receptive and expressive language skills. While the app costs $7.99, multiple students can access and use the app on the same device while keeping track of their individual progress.