Language Arts / English
Here are some of the best apps for English teachers that we’ve found.
Plume’s School-Saving Christmas
Another great holiday themed app that allows children to work on their spelling, reading, memory, and a variety of other skills through fun activities.
Flipidee Animals
Flipidee Animals lets children explore and build a variety of animals while learning their names and practicing their spelling skills. This is a great app for young children!
iTrace — handwriting for kids
Whether using their fingers or a stylus, kids can learn to write by tracing letters, numbers, words, and even their own names.
Spellyfish Phonics- Short A Words
Another great Spellyfish app that will engage children in learning to spell, read, and sound out short words. Perfect for young children wanting to get a jumpstart on their reading skills.
Spellyfish Phonics- Short I Words
Spellyfish Short I Words is an awesome educational app that uses a variety of lessons to teach children how to spell in fun under water environment.
City Letters
City Letters is a great app for preschoolers as it teaches a variety of early learning skills in reading, writing, and spelling in a fun and easy to use learning environment.
7 Little Words for Kids
7 Little Words For Kids is a fun and challenging app with lots of word puzzles and clues that kids will love.
Happi & The Pirates
For the pirate lover in your home, this app helps children practice their spelling, math, and reasoning skills in a fun way.
Sushi Scramble: MultiPlayer Word Game
Sushi Scramble offers an exciting and fun way to practice spelling skills that will be entertaining to nearly any age group.
Plume’s School – Animals
With Plume’s School – Animals, a pleasant app for kids, they will learn to identify a large variety of animals; expanding their vocabulary and improving other skills along the way.
Free App Friday – Oct 04, 2013
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Touch and Write Phonics
Touch and Write Phonics is an excellent example of a high quality and effective phonics app. It nicely combines visual, auditory and kinesthetic learning to meet the needs of many young learners.
Write About This
Write About This is an outstanding app for teaching and practicing writing skills. It’s great for a very wide range of ages and abilities, and will provide hours and hours of productive practice.
Bugsy Kindergarten Reading School
Join Bugsy on his learning mission to outer space where he helps kids practice a wide variety of educational skills in reading, spelling, phonics, and more!
abc Pocket Phonics
Pocket Phonics offers practical, effective practice with letter sounds and with blending sounds into words. It is a fine tool for teaching beginning reading students.
Dic-Dic
Dic-Dic is a nice introduction to basic words in several languages. It will help students learn to spell and read over a hundred different words in their native language, then can introduce them to several other languages.
Bluster
This game is well-thought out and appealing for a range of skill levels. The practice mode is engaging, and the team and competitive modes add valuable play options.
5 Apps for 5th Grade: A Guide to Reading Comprehension, Comprehension Apps and the Common Core
Whether your student is struggling with reading or sailing along smoothly, extra practice is important. The iPad and iPhone apps are perfect for engaging many types of students in this vital practice. Check out our recommendations and tips.
4th-5th Grade Reading Comprehension Social Studies
4th-5th Grade Reading Comprehension Social Studies is a good application to promote practice of vital reading comprehension skills.
Jumbled Sentences 3
Jumbled Sentences 3 is a high quality educational app that allows children to practice their sentence structure skills in a fun space themed environment. Simply put, this app is out of this world!
Talking ABC…
Zany clay animals and fun games help kids learn the letters of the alphabet.
Word Wonderland Primary
Word Wonderland Primary is one of the best games I’ve seen to help young children practice basic phonics skills. Children from 4 to 8 years of age will love it!
Brain Quest
A digital version of the fun trivia game Brain Quest that will keep children learning on the go.
Play and Learn With Wallace
Try Play and Learn with Wallace for a wide array of fun early learning activities.
Live Puzzle! Forest Animals
Live Puzzle! Forest Animals is an innovative and entertaining educational app that children of all ages will love.
Avaz for Autism
Avaz for Autism is the most flexible and functional assisted communication software I have seen for the Ipad. It’s an outstanding tool and will open doors for countless individuals who need assisted communication.
Endless Alphabet
We are sad to announce that this educational children’s app has decided to include ads with an in-app purchase to remove. Unacceptable
Jungle Journey
Jungle Journey provides a fun way to practice two vital higher-order reading comprehension skills with multi player options.
Doodle Learning English
This app is a lighthearted addition to your educational arsenal. Children will have lots of fun with the engaging and creative art work as well as the entertaining animations.
The Trip – Little Critter Reading Adventure
This beautifully illustrated app takes you on an exciting adventure – the Critter’s family road trip! You’ll run into problems along the way, so you’ll need your thinking cap on to make sure you get to your vacation destination.
Kindergarten Reading
Kindergarten Reading is a pleasant application that will help young children practice beginning alphabet and phonics skills in a positive way.
Rocket Speller
This is one of the best free educational apps I have found that is not only a great value, but provides tons of fun.
Simplex Spelling Phonics – Advanced Phonograms
Advanced Phonograms offers many great features at a reasonable price. It is a high quality spelling app intended for kids ages 9 and older; perfect for home or school.
Language Empires
Language Learning is an outstanding application to help students in elementary and middle school practice critical language skills in both oral and written forms.
iTooch Elementary School
iTooch Elementary School offers some great practice and efficient testing for Common Core Standards in language arts, math and science for grades 3-5 as well as fifth grade health.
iTooch Middle School
iTooch Middle School is an outstanding practice and testing system for Common Core Standards in language arts and math for grades six, seven and eight.
Crabby Writer
Come play in the sand! Have fun writing in the sand to spell three and four letter words or build sandcastles – no need to worry about sunburn.
Monkey Word School Adventure
Fun educational entertainment for a great price; a learning game kids will want to play over and over again… and parents won’t mind.
Simplex Spelling Phonics 2 Syllables
Simplex Spelling Phonics 2 is an inviting environment for improving spelling, phonics and reading.
Star Speller
Star Speller, a spelling app for kids in kindergarten through second grade, has two games and a flashcard mode. Reasonably priced considering the features and content it offers.