Reading Apps
This list of awesome reading apps will help your child practice essential literacy skills. The apps listed will help kids build skills in print awareness, phonics, spelling, vocabulary, and writing.
Khan Academy Kids
Overview Khan Academy Kids is a comprehensive toddler, preschool, and early learning app designed for children ages 2 to 6+. It includes a wealth of age-appropriate activities that will help young children learn about letters, numbers, colors, measurement, science, health, readiness skills, and more. Features include: Highly interactive Adaptive activities Easy to play Fast-paced activities …
[Review] Pixton: FREE Comic, Storyboard & Graphic Novel Maker
Overview Pixton EDU is a comic creation system that opens creative doors across the curriculum. It offers opportunities for students to express themselves in this style even if they do not have artistic skills to keep up with their imaginations. Kids across a wide age range will find it a motivating way to express themselves …
OOKS
OOKS is a kid-friendly story-telling app that encourages language, memory, organization, and other important skills. It incorporates user choices, artwork, and other information to create personalized, unique stories within a colorful and entertaining universe.
Learning Upgrade
Learning Upgrade will provide hours of productive content for students learning English (K-5 level) or math (K-adult level). The lessons are engaging, animated and musical. The practice games are fun and provide valuable review of the material. All in all, it’s a really great app!
Super School Kids
Super School Kids is a fun and educational collection of games, music videos, ebooks, and more designed for preschool children. It includes over 50 activities that span the typical preschool curriculum and is a good tool for helping young students explore and develop crucial concepts.
Wonster Words Learning: ABC Phonics & Spelling
Wonster Words Learning is an outstanding phonics and spelling practice app that will help young students develop understanding and internalize common spelling patterns that will help them memorize familiar words and learn to decode new ones. It’s fun and entertaining as well as very solid educationally speaking.
5th Grade Reading Comprehension Prep
5th Grade Reading Comprehension Prep is a simple and effective app that will help students practice vital comprehension skills in the classroom or at home. The feature of highlighting text evidence to support the correct answer is particularly valuable to learners.
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.
Missing Friend-Lite
App Info Price: Overview This ebook tells an engaging story of the kidnapped Mr. Mole and Mr. Rabbit’s daring rescue from Icky Mr. Fox. It features interactive pages, vocabulary-building labels, and narration for all text. Features include: Quirky scenes and characters Narration of all pages Interactive pages activated with taps and swipes Tap objects to …
Care for Our World
Inspire kids to cherish the world they live in by reading and interacting with Care for Our World, a beautiful narrated ebook for kids.
Let’s Go Lex
Travel down the river with Lex the hippo and her froggy friends in Let’s Go Lex!, an animated story app for kids.
Ladybug Band
Play along with the Ladybug Band in this fun animated ebook that will have you tapping your feet in tune with the music.
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.
Clue Story-Interactive Novel with Riddles
Clue Story-Interactive Novel with Riddles is a fun mystery story that takes good advantage of the capabilities of technology to blend traditional stories with multimedia and interactive content.
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.
Tara’s Locket – A VR Story for Children
Read a story in a new way with Tara’s Locket, a virtual reality app, which allows children to tag along with Tara on her journey to find her family.
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.
Roxy and the Ballerina Robot
Roxy wants to buy a ballerina robot, but she has to save up to do it. Kids will learn an important lesson about spending and saving as they read Roxy and the Ballerina Robot.
Pocket Sight Words
Pocket Sight Words provides a simple and effective way to practice recognition of 220 sight words from the Dolch List. It has few bells and whistles, which results in a very intuitive interface that should be apparent to preschoolers and kindergarteners in the target age group, but also is not likely to be exciting or intriguing for most children in this age group.
Animalia – Kids Learning Games & Interactive Story
Kids learn a lesson by reading through the story and playing the games in Animalia – Kids Learning Games & Interactive Story.
Spooky Hollow – Interactive Children’s Book
Discover why all of the pumpkins are different colors in Spooky Hollow, a cute animated story for Halloween.
Learn English with Lingokids Review – Updated
See the app in iTunes Monkimun SL Price: monthly subscription for $9.99 UPDATE: Lingokids just added some new updates that are fantastic need to be noted. First of all, each subject now has new “Teacher” videos where a real-life teacher interacts with the student and provides a fun introduction to each lesson. The …
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 …
Homer – #1 Learn to Read Program Review
See the app in iTunes HomerLearning, Inc. Price: Free Just in time for back to school there is an amazing app called Homer – #1 Learn to Read Program that will have parents and children cheering! This app is the ideal way to teach your children not only how to read, but to love it …
Snot & Fluff
Snot & Fluff is an entertaining cosmic tale that takes readers on a 3D adventure through space. With great interactive graphics, a fun story, and so much more this is one app you don’t want to miss!
Andy Helps You Read
Andy Helps You Read Offers a thorough and thoughtful approach to reading instruction for kids with special needs.
Rose Milany at the Beach
Join Rose Milany on a trip to the beach and interact with her as she builds a sand castle, collects sea shells, and enjoys other beach-related activities.
Henry The Little Fish
Journey to the ocean to meet Henry, a little fish who wants to be everyone’s friend, in the cute story Henry the Little Fish.
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.
One Giggly Gorilla
One Giggly Gorilla tells a delightful story that kids will want to read again and again.
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!
You Make Me Smile, Albert
App Info Price: Overview Albert is a dog, but he’s not just any dog. He’s a dog who really cares about his animal friends. This short animated story teaches kids a very simple lesson about taking the time to make others smile. Features include: Touching story Animated illustrations Good moral lesson Spirtual elements Quality Developers …
Toad Sues God
Toad has a problem, so he heads to heaven to take it up with God in this classic folktale from Vietnam.
Lucy & Pogo
Cats and dogs can’t be friends. That’s how it has always been, but Lucy sets out to change that in the interactive story, Lucy & Pogo.
Listening Power Preschool
Listening Power Preschool is an outstanding receptive language development app capable of accommodating up to 75 users, creating groups, and providing an array of flexible practice activities that will keep young children learning for years.