Language Arts / English
Here are some of the best apps for English teachers that we’ve found.
Romeo and Juliet’s Secrets
Romeo and Juliet’s Secrets is a creative and entertaining interactive ebook that makes the famous Shakespearean play more accessible with modern language narration and historical background and information.
Scribble Cards
App Info Price: Overview Kids can learn how to write their letters and numbers with Scribble Cards. This very simple app basically offers what the name suggests, cards on which kids can “scribble” and practice early writing skills. With just a little guidance, kids can become pros at writing their letters and numbers. Features include: …
Your word against mine
Overview Your word against mine takes the traditional word game to the next level. At the basic level, it’s a simple word game. However, the app combines scrambled letters with multiplayer components to create a fun and challenging game for kids. Features include: Make words quickly Climb to the top of the leaderboard Enjoy four …
The Name Game
App Info Price: Overview “Kids who like animals and are building letter recognition skills will enjoy The Name Game. This unique app combines kids’ names with short rhymes related to animals. For every letter in a child’s name, the app provides a short description of an animal. Kids will enjoy seeing their name come to …
Wordsplash!
App Info Price: Overview Wordsplash! is a classic word game for kids. To play the game, kids must create as many words as possible from a series of letters before time runs out. The faster kids create words, the more points they earn. How many words will your kids make? Features include: Two modes of …
Word Magic: Educational Word Search Puzzles
App Info Price: Overview Build vocabulary by completing themed word search puzzles. From animals to sports and jobs to space, kids can learn words in a wide variety of categories. Unlike a traditional word search, whenever kids find a word they also get to read the definition of the word. This enhances the educational value …
Autism Games 4 – Matching
Help kids with autism learn new words, colors, letters, and numbers with a series of simple matching games in Autism Games 4 Matching.
Story Starters Pro
Story Starters Pro offers a nearly limitless supply of stimulating prompts to set writing off on the right foot. Everyone from students of all ages to professional writers will benefit from the material that this app has to offer.
Spell Bear
Spell Bear is a simple and pleasant app that is designed to help very young students develop basic understandings about letter sounds and word order. The app provides practice with spelling three letter words, sounding words out, and more.
Sight Words – Learning Games
Help kids learn sight words through a series of six fun games with Sight Words – Learning Games.
MonSticky-Decorate Your Monsters
MonSticky-Decorate Your Monsters is an entertaining app that will unleash creative streaks in small children. Users can create thousands of variations of these not-so-scary monsters.
Unicorn Runner
Kids can put their knowledge of prefixes, suffixes, and base words to the test through a series of fast-paced quizzes in UnicornRunner.
Super Spelling
Help kids learn to spell 400 new words with Super Spelling, a fun spelling game for kids.
Buzkids
Buzkids is a personalized app that helps little kids learn their letters, numbers, animal sounds, and fruit and vegetable names.
SLWG – Study! a Language Word Game
A fun block-style word game helps kids learn a foreign language in SLWG – Study! a Language Word Game.
RingoWord-Word Search Game
RingoWord is a literal “twist” on traditional word search puzzles, with the words being presented in a circular format. The rules are simple and the play is challenging.
Neurotale
Neurotale helps writers advance their stories by suggesting lines from public domain novels.
Tales of Aarchie
Tales of Aarchie tells a humorous story about an armadillo while helping kids learn some of the intricacies of the English language.
eTABU Word Search
eTABU Word Search is a fun way to build reading, word recognition, vocabulary and mental flexibility skills. You can even use it to sharpen your languages skills. The app is entertaining and highly-engaging.
Fido & Pumpkin Position Words
Fido & Pumpkin Position Words is a fun app to help young children learn about position in space, covering words such as “in,” “up,” “down,” and “between” with colorful animations and multiple-choice endings to sentences that describe the characters’ positions.
Wordrops-Addictive Word Puzzle Game
Wordrop-Addictive Word Puzzle Game is a fast-paced, high action word game that is perfect for building fluency with spelling and writing, as well as stretching vocabulary.
Clue Catcher All Grades Edition
Build reading comprehension skills and learn how to decode context clues with Clue Catcher, a quality reading app for grades 3-10.
An Adventure of Our Own
An Adventure of Our Own offers a unique adventure story that encourages kids to communicate with one another.
Wonster Words
Build your child’s spelling and vocabulary skills through fun games and silly animations with Wonster Words.
Spelling 9-10 Andrew Brodie Basics
Spelling 9-10 Andrew Brodie Basics is a practical and hands-on method of practicing commonly troublesome spelling words for middle elementary students. Users can choose from standardized word lists, create new lists from the included words, or add their own words to create a unique spelling practice tool for each student.
Mighty Colossus Storybook
Mighty Colossus Storybook is a powerful, yet flexible system for creating digital storybooks using built-in characters, backgrounds, and props, or user-generated artwork, pictures, and other content.
Lingokids-English Class for Kids & Toddlers
Lingokids is a sampler app that allows parents and children to try out several lessons to teach English vocabulary to young children using engaging animated activities related to groups of eight vocabulary words.
Trilo Spelling
A series of unique spelling activities that naturally progress in difficulty will help kids build basic spelling skills in Trilo Spelling.
Best Apps for Back to School – 5th Grade
Here are some of the best of the best apps for fifth graders as they head back to school. This list includes reviewed and recommended apps to help practice fractions, basic math, and grammar. There are also some apps that will open doors of programming and science. Enjoy! The Everything Machine The Everything Machine gives …
Best Apps for Back to School – 3rd Grade
Reviewed and recommended apps for third graders will make finding just the right one for your child a piece of cake! Here are some great ones to help with cursive writing, math skills, composition and creativity, and more. Letter School Cursive Writing Teaching kids to write in cursive may seem like a lost art, but …
Best Apps for Back to School – 2nd Grade
Here are some great reviewed apps for spelling, phonics skills, listening skills, and more! These apps are perfect for second-grade students. Planet Lettra Planet Lettra is a playground for word-building. Users are magically transported to the mythical Planet Lettra where letters float in bubbles in the sky. When the bubbles bump, the letters combine, and …
Best Apps for Back to School – 1st Grade
A little bit of science, a small bit of social studies, some reading and some math round out the suggestions for first graders this year. Take a look at these apps. Malama Honua My Voyage The My Voyage app will take users on an elaborate adventure through documentary-like videos, games, and more as the main …
Cosmic Paul
Cosmic Paul is an early learning app that helps children practice their alphabet and spelling skills using a unique and very entertaining search and find concept. Interactive, educational, and tons of fun, this app is great for children of all ages!
Andy Helps You Read
Andy Helps You Read Offers a thorough and thoughtful approach to reading instruction for kids with special needs.
Read – Kids learn to read and write in 20 easy lessons
Read-Kids Learn to Read and Write in 20 Lessons is an outstanding app that offers some simple, yet effective practice for early reading skills in the areas of phonics, sight word recognition, writing, and reading comprehension.
Sago Mini Robot Party
Sago Mini Robot Party is an entertaining and creative app that will spark the imaginations of toddler and preschool users as well as encourage them to build self-expression skills and have a great time creating robots.
Spelling Bug Word Match
Practice your spelling words with a fun matching game in Spelling Bug: Word Match.
Bla Bla Box
Bla Bla Box is an easy to use early learning app that helps children combine letters together to learn sounds, syllables, and words. This app is perfect for early readers!
Trace It, Try It
Trace It, Try It gives kids multiple opportunities to learn how to form their letters, numbers, and three-letter words while still having fun.