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.
Leviatopia
Leviatopia takes kids on a journey to a city in the belly of a whale. Is it a real place or it is just a dream?
12 Huia Birds
Learn about the extinction of the huia birds and how to protect other birds from suffering the same fate in the interactive story 12 Huia Birds.
Time For Bed Little Ted
Time For Bed Little Ted is a soothing storybook app that is sure to help children wind down before bed. With a cute story and fun activities to enjoy, this app is perfect for children of all ages.
Tints: Dyslexia Friendly Reading
Tints: Dyslexia Friendly Reading offers an outstanding method to experiment with colored backgrounds and changes to contrast between background and text that may be beneficial to struggling readers.
The Wunderglasses
Put on the Wunderglasses and watch the city come to life in The Wunderglasses, a truly imaginative app.
The Witch and the Christmas Spirit
When Santa Claus and his elves get sick, will the witch be able to step in and save Christmas? Find out in this fun animated story.
MOVING BOOKS! Jajajajan
Introduce kids to fun animated versions of classic stories and silly songs with MOVING BOOKS! Jajajajan.
Lipa Theater: Story Maker
Kids become directors as they create and narrate their own animated stories.
Planet Lettra
Planet Lettra is an outstanding app that will help young readers develop an intuitive understanding of phonics and word analysis skills in a playful, encouraging environment.
Letter Cross-Tracking
Letter Cross-Tracking is a serviceable app that will help children remediate letter reversals and inversions and help them build skills in the areas of visual tracking, attention to detail and position in space, but they may need outside motivation to complete assigned work so they don’t lose interest.
George and the Ice Cream Castle
Join George as he travels through Yum Yum Land to get to the Ice Cream Castle and learn about healthy eating along the way.
Elkonin Boxes: A Literacy Tool for Beginning Readers
Elkonin Boxes is a digital version of a highly-effective teaching strategy that will help beginning and struggling readers build vital skills for phonemic awareness, which is foundational to success in phonics.
Mack the Dog Early Language Development 2
Follow the down-eared dog called Mack while he searches for his teddy bear and discover 65+ developing nouns for beginning readers at the same time.
Safari Tales
Head on a jungle safari and learn about jungle animals through fun activities and stories.
Tips to Get Your Kids to Want to Read
Families now are busier than ever, but one fundamental activity can help your child succeed in school and in life – reading to them. Starting early with reading to a preschool aged child engages them with stories and pictures, familiarizes them with words, and helps them to have an easier time in school. However, sometimes …
Early Language Development with Sleepy Fred
Follow Sleepy Fred as he gets ready for bed in this cute rhyming story for kids.
History For Kids
Travel back in time and get an overview of the major time periods and events in world history with History for Kids, an animated eBook narrated by kids for kids.
All Different Colors by Jean Ruth
A delightful little tale about crayons provides positive messages about self-acceptance and self-confidence for kids.
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.
NetKids Digital Entertainment Network
NetKids Digital Entertainment Network lets kids experience unlimited content from many of their favorite characters – for a small monthly fee.
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.
Story Chaser
Story Chaser offers a fun way to sharpen and improve reading skills for teens and adults. Players will build their speed reading while having fun competing with themselves and with opponents and friends.
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.
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.
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.
The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Car Trip
The Berenstain Bears are going on a car trip and they’re inviting kids to read along in this illustrated ebook.
My Little Pony: Pinkie Pie’s Sister
A cute storybook app that introduces readers and the My Little Pony friends to Pinkie Pie’s sister Maud-a very unique pony unlike any of the others. A great story with lively animations, and a wonderful lesson for children.
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.
My Little Pony: Hearts & Hooves Day
My Little Pony: Hearts & Hooves Day is a cute storybook app perfect for Valentine’s Day that teaches children about friendship and honesty.
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.