Language Arts / English
Here are some of the best apps for English teachers that we’ve found.
Wonster Words – ABC, Phonics, and Spelling
Wonster Words: Spelling with ABC and Phonics by Puzzlingo is an amusing and entertaining way to help children practice reading and spelling words that review basic phonics skills such as word families, rhyming, consonant digraphs, and more.
Early Language Development with Sleepy Fred
Follow Sleepy Fred as he gets ready for bed in this cute rhyming story for kids.
Funny Directions by Speecharoo
Funny Directions by Speecharoo uses silly sound effects and amusing animations to reward kids for following directions.
Little Big Car Factory Spelling Game
Little Big Car Factory: Spelling Game is an outstanding example of a fun and flexible app that adults can customize with the exact words students need to study or learn to spell.
Words with Ibbleobble
Words with Ibbleobble is an educational vocabulary app to teach children a wide variety of new words using fun images and illustrations.
2015 Edition: Best Apps for Back to School – 6th Grade
High quality educational apps for 6th grade can be a little harder to find in the App Store. Our list of reviewed and recommended apps include world geography, middle school vocabulary prep, a comprehensive math practice tool, a tower defense geometry game and a graphic novel that covers a variety of middle school issues like …
2015 Edition: Best Apps for Back to School – 5th Grade
The apps we’ve chosen for our reviewed and recommended list for 5th grade include basic fraction concepts, searchable math video tutorials, visual and written creativity while creating professional-looking books and word analysis practice covering multiple concepts. Slice Fractions Slice Fractions offers a wordless, hands-on walk through basic fraction concepts such as the meaning of the …
2015 Edition: Best Apps for Back to School – 4th Grade
There are so many great educational apps in the App Store for elementary school-aged children, we couldn’t narrow it down to our top 5 reviewed and recommended apps for 4th grade. Our list covers apps for encouraging creative writing and self-expression, text and visual design, scientific inquiry and observation, spelling, coding for kids and even …
Best Apps for Back to School – 3rd Grade
Finding just the right apps for your elementary-age child can be time consuming. Our list of reviewed and recommended apps for 3rd grade can make finding the right app for your child easier. The apps featured focus on a number of important areas, including building language skills, developing reading and comprehension skills, practicing writing skills, …
2015 Edition: Best Apps for Back to School – 2nd Grade
Our reviewed and recommended apps for 2nd grade include a wide variety of apps such as logic puzzles, apps for creativity and self-expression, building language skills and math. Brain Quest Brain Quest is full of fun and educational trivia that will keep children engaged and entertained while traveling. Not only is it diverse in the …
2015 Edition: Best Apps for Back to School – 1st Grade
Best Apps for Back to School – 1st Grade Our reviewed and recommended apps for 1st grade develop literacy and numeracy skills, place value concepts, geometry, thinking and logic skills, cause and effect skills, and more. Take a look at these apps. Best 1st Grade Apps ScratchJr ScratchJr is a hands-on learning environment that …
2015 Edition: Best Apps for Back to School – Kindergarten
Kindergarten apps are plentiful in the App Store. Our list of reviewed and recommended apps for Kindergarten will help narrow down the best educational apps for your child or classroom. The apps we have recommended cover important skills such as developing high-level thinking and spatial skills, building reading and written expressions skills, and mastering basic …
Khan Academy
Khan Academy’s app provides a comprehensive library of topics and skills that support Common Core goals. It includes a wealth of information particularly on middle school and high school classes, as well as useful topics for college students and adults.
My Naughty Shadow
Follow a little girl as she walks about and interacts with her naughty shadow.
Middle School Vocabulary Prep
Middle School Vocabulary Prep offers hundreds of words with definitions and parts of speech in learning, quiz, and test modes. It will provide middle and high school students with hours of productive vocabulary practice that will improve performance in class and on standardized tests.
Book Creator for iPad
Book Creator for iPad is a fantastic tool to encourage authors and illustrators of all ages and abilities to express themselves and share their work with family, friends and even the world if they wish.
Mad Libs
Mad Libs, the word game that makes learning parts of speech worthwhile, is great fun for players of all ages and stages. There’s something timeless about nonsense, and this app hides significant learning beneath a layer of fun.
TeleStory
TeleStory will keep kids of nearly any age entertained for hours on end as they take on the challenges of writing, directing and filming shows that will fire up their imaginations.
AlphaTots Alphabet
Alphatots is a fun ABC app with 26 interactive games. It is unusual among ABC apps and alphabet books because it uses verbs instead of nouns for the letter sound key words.
Bob Books Reading Magic Sight Words
Bob Books Reading Magic Sight Words is an engaging and fun look at thirty common words that will help kids learn to read and spell while they enjoy the familiar characters and scenes from a favorite series.
Learn to Read NOK-Syllables
Syllable counting and word building app challenges kids as they build early reading skills.
Smart-EZE Minutes A Day
Smart-EZE is a great app with lots of educational lessons and reviews for children grades 1-5. With Math, English, & Reading Comprehension review options, this app is perfect for practice any time of year.
The Cat in the Hat – Read & Learn
The iconic Dr. Seuss story, The Cat in the Hat, gets an educational makeover in this fun read & learn app.
Say Word
Say Word is a perfect tool for students in middle to upper elementary on up to use for practice with difficult homophones and easily-confused words. Most will find the vocabulary and concepts challenging and interesting.
Mystery Word Town – Sight Word Spelling
Head to the Wild West and practice spelling sight words as you search for gold and explore Mystery Word Town.
Back Soon – Parents Vacation
The parents head on vacation and leave the kids behind in a cute story that teaches kids how to handle their time away.
Imagistory
Imagistory offers a healthy dose of creative thinking and storytelling opportunities to children by encouraging pretending. With two free wordless picture ebooks and four more available for purchase, children will love building story after story, recorded in their very own voices.
Word Creativity Kit – The Creative Writing Tool for Kids
The Word Creativity Kit provides a unique system to explore the interplay between text and visual design that will stimulate artistic creativity as well as creative writing and self-expression.
A to Z Playful Learning
Introduce kids to the letters of the alphabet and high-frequency sight words as they play a series of fun puzzle games.
Lucky’s Tree of Puzzles
Lucky, a squirrel, and a series of educational games will entertain kids, but may be a bit challenging at times.
Tap and learn ABC
Tap and Learn ABC is a useful app that makes a great introduction to letters, keywords, and beginning sounds for young children or special needs students.
Kido Magic Finger
Create fingerprint animals and feed a hungry hedgehog letters to make words in a fun multi-touch early learning app.
ABC Gurus
ABC Gurus is a simple, yet fun app that will keep young children thoroughly entertained again and again as they hear the letter names, sounds and key words the entire time that they play.
David Wiesner’s Spot
David Wiesner’s Spot is an outstanding app that taps some of the iPad’s unique capabilities to create an engaging experience in five strange new worlds that are exciting for all ages.
Knowji Vocab 7-10, SAT, GRE, ASVAB Audio Visual Vocabulary Flashcards with Spaced Repetition
Knowji Vocab 7-10 is an outstanding and useful vocabulary development program that will help teens to prepare for high-stakes tests, assist students to prepare for collegiate level reading, and adults to review important vocabulary.
The Sight Word Adventure
The Sight Word Adventure is a thorough and comprehensive practice system for some of the most important early-reading words that every child must master to gain fluency.
Billy Possum’s Interactive Comprehension
Billy Possum’s Interactive Comprehension is among the best reading comprehension apps I have seen in the Marketplace, with an unusual focus on vital higher-level comprehension skills and even opportunities to visualize scenes from the story.
Storm & Skye – magical adventure story for kids
Kids will never look at a car wash the same way again after joining Storm & Skye on their magical adventure.
The Happy Star
Send kids to bed with a reminder to fill their days with kind acts so they can brighten their own personal stars.
Short Vowel Word Study
Short Vowel Word Study takes the first steps of a proven program to teach children to read and wraps them up into a fun and enjoyable, yet simple and effective app.