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.
Caillou: What’s That Funny Noise?
Caillou, a character from a long-running television series, now has an ebook! This delightful interactive story will help young children learn literacy and thinking skills as they develop strategies to comfort themselves at night.
Words That Go With Richard Scarry’s Busytown Cars
Young children will delight in the magical vehicles of Richard Scarry, reminiscent of the favorite books. There are five levels of fun, ranging from letter matching and left-to-right sequencing through spelling longer words.
Dabby Dill & the Hiccup Pickle
Join Dabby Dill as she tries to find her way out of her Hiccup Pickle by trying a variety of silly remedies. A silly story all children can enjoy.
Gary’s Place
App Info Price: Overview Gary’s Place is a delightful storybook app that tells the story of a young gopher who strikes out on his own. It’s a story of growing up, realizing what you have, and the dangers of wanting too much. Gary learns a valuable lesson in the happily-ever-after ending. Features include: Clear navigation …
iSort Words
iSort Words is an excellent tool for practice with word families. It will build crucial speed with identifying words, it offers a wide array of rime patterns, and it’s fun.
Read With Me Fluency
The Read With Me Fluency app offers a simple and convenient way to assess student reading to teachers, parents, tutors, and others who need to monitor progress. The app allows users to administer an informal reading inventory (a common tool) to single students or entire classrooms or groups.
The Berenstain Bears and the Tooth Fairy
Another great storybook app from Oceanhouse Media that is great for the little one in your home that might be getting a visit from the Tooth Fairy soon.
Chris P. Bacon
Chris P. Bacon, a special little pig, teaches kids to love themselves, differences and all.
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.
Strawberry Shortcake Berry Best Friends
Strawberry Shortcake Berry Best Friends is a cute app with lots of fun games and a sweet story children will love.
WordGirl Superhero Training
Help WordGirl save the day by building your super hero skills through a variety of word, memory, and logic challenges in this fun app.
Clam I Am
Another great Oceanhouse Media app that teaches children about all the wonderful things you might find at the beach and in the sea.
Sound Touch
Sound Touch offers many educational opportunities for all ages, even adults.
The Little Witch at School
A delightful tale with tons of additional activities to keep children engaged. This is a great app for the whole family!
Rosita y Conchita in 3D
A lovely digital storybook app that teaches children about the Day of the Dead with an easy to understand and heartwarming story.
CuddleFish Friends
CuddleFish Friends takes kids on an undersea adventure as they follow Cecil, a cuttlefish, as he interacts with his friends.
Free App Friday – Oct 04, 2013
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Flip Flap Farm
Flip Flap Farm is a flipbook with a twist. In this non-traditional story, kids control the content. Instead of simply creating unique animals as they flip the pages, kids get to read a story about them as they go. Kids can make squabbits, purkeys and a host of other animals just by swiping from page to page.
Just Saving My Money
App Info Price: Overview Just Saving My Money is another great Little Critter story by Oceanhouse Media that teaches children about earning and saving their money for a specific purchase. With great sound effects, text highlighting, and narration options, this digital storybook app not only teaches children about saving, but allows them to work on …
The Berenstain Bears Collection #1
A great digital storybook collection that includes 6 wonderful Berenstain Bears stories.
Free App Friday – Sep 27, 2013
Welcome to another fabulous Free App Friday!
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.
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.
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.
Blue Ocean Bob
Think It, See It, Believe It, Achieve It – the lesson of Blue Ocean Bob, a superb book app. This universal app is beautifully illustrated, contains games and is affordable.
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.
Just Helping My Dad
Another great digital book from Oceanhouse Media that may inspire little ones to help out around the house.
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.
Dr. Seuss’s Short Story Collection
Another wonderful digital book app from Oceanhouse Media that offers 8 different Dr. Seuss short stories children will love.
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!
Snowpo: The Trip for Fish and Chips
Snowpo: The Trip for Fish and Chips is a charming digital story book with great in-app features that will keep children engaged and entertained.
Jungle Journey
Jungle Journey provides a fun way to practice two vital higher-order reading comprehension skills with multi player options.
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.
3rd Grade Reading Comprehension
This application may not be the best choice for third grade readers due to the high reading levels. It does a good job of providing comprehension activities, and could be useful for more able students.
Kindergarten Reading
Kindergarten Reading is a pleasant application that will help young children practice beginning alphabet and phonics skills in a positive way.
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.
Brush of Truth
Brush of Truth lets the reader control the story in this amazing interactive story for 8 – 12 year olds. Highly recommended!
Reading Skills 3A
With 12 non-fiction stories, Reading Skills 3A (Science) makes reading comprehension interesting and interactive.
I Love You All The Time
A charming story about a parents love for their child, I Love You All The Time is an excellent addition to any digital library. The app includes many great book app features and the song track.