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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 …
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.
Missing Friend – Lite Review
See the App in iTunes ICKYPEN Price: FREE Missing Friend – Lite is the free version of a cute, interactive storybook for children. With Missing Friend, kids can join Mr. Rabbit on an adventure to rescue his friend Mr. Mole from the mischievous Icky Mr. Fox. I thought that this app had cool scenery and …
3 Creative Ideas for Discussing Book Themes in the Classroom
When you incorporate a book into your lesson plans, you want your students to walk away with a deep understanding of the text. Knowing the character names and major plot points may be enough to help a student pass a multiple-choice exam, but grasping the theme is how your pupils can make real-world connections to …
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.
Neurotale
Neurotale helps writers advance their stories by suggesting lines from public domain novels.
3 Ways to Keep Student Engagement High Despite Growing Classroom Sizes
When budgets tighten, class sizes often increase as a money–saving measure. This can put additional strain on instructors, and make it more difficult for them to find the time and energy to connect with students on an individual level. There is a very real fear that students may slip through the cracks in a busier …
Grandma’s Great Gourd Review
See the App in iTunes Literary Safari Inc. Price: $1.99 Grandma’s Great Gourd is an interactive storybook app for children. With Grandma’s Great Gourd, kids can experience a Bengali folktale and play 4 different ways! I thought that this app would be a great opportunity to teach your child about another culture. There are four main …
5 Monster Books For Kids
Monster books for kids are fun options for not only getting your child excited about reading, but helping him or her get over any “monster under the bed”-related fears. Check out the following excellent monster books and enjoy spending time reading with your little ‘un: Monster Mess Monster Mess is a goofy rhyming book by …
6 Classic Children’s Books Your Kids Will Love
Instill a love of books in your children early by reading to them regularly. There’s plenty of classic children’s books to pick from, all of which feature memorable characters and lessons younglings will take with them always. Check out a few top picks before creating your reading list: Where The Wild Things Are No list of …
4 Fun Reading Activities To Try
Is your child learning read? If you want to foster good reading habits that turn your child into a voracious reader for life, check out a few activities to try: Repetition Fun Little kids loooove knowing what comes next in a book, so choose options that feature plenty of rhyming and repetition. Classic books to …
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.
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!
Here’s Why eBooks Are the Perfect Gift for Your Child
It’s the holiday season, and that means it’s high time to think of gifts. Getting a gift for a child is a slightly tricky thing – it’s hard to tell, sometimes, at exactly what stage of development your kid is. Is he or she ready for a phone, or is it too soon? Are they …
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.
Zinkerz Prep For SAT Test
Zinkerz Prep For SAT Test is an all inclusive app for students who want to get prepped and ready for the big test! With practice tests, flashcards, and loads of tips and tricks, this app is great for practice at school or at home.
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.
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.
What Mice Eat – Interactive book for kids
Join Bruno (a cute, forgetful mouse) as he wanders around the city trying desperately to remember what mice eat so he can satisfy his grumbling belly. Great story, gorgeous images, and easy to use for children of all ages.
2015 Edition: Back to School Apps for Kids
Top Educational Apps for Back to School We’ve scoured the App Store to find the top educational apps for kids. It wasn’t easy to narrow it down to just five for each category so in some cases we’ve listed more, especially for those hard to find apps for middle school, high school and special …
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.
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.
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.
Highlights: All About
Highlights: All About is a wonderful digital addition to the Highlights family. Just like in the magazine, the app provides a wide array of activities that encourage thinking skills, practice foundational academic skills, and more.
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.
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.
Voice Dream Reader
Voice Dream Reader will open the doors of reading to many people struggling due to vision problems, dyslexia or other literacy issues.
Looney Tunes™ ClickN READ Phonics®
Looney Tunes Phonics is an entertaining way to learn or review basic phonics concepts from pre-kindergarten through third grade.
Vowel Stories for Beginning Readers: Short Sounds
Vowel Stories for Beginning Readers: Short Sounds offers another avenue of focused vowel practice for beginning readers, young struggling readers, or students who are learning English.
Phonics: Fun on Farm
Phonics: Fun on Farm is a fun and educational app that will help young children learn basic literacy skills through playful activities.
Epic!
Epic!-Books for Kids offers a handy and extensive library for children ages 2 to 12 for a low monthly subscription fee. Thousands of high quality children’s books from classics to award-winning favorites are available.
Jamaroos Musical ABCs
Jamaroos Musical ABCs is an outstanding early learning app with fun music and vocabulary words that children will love. Great content and great value!
TeachMe: Kindergarten
TeachMe: Kindergarten is an outstanding all-inclusive educational app that is a must-have for parents with little ones at home! Great content at an even better price.
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.
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.
Exotic Pet Puzzler
Exotic Pet Puzzler is a creative educational app that will teach children how to write their letters, work on their alphabet, and spell through a variety of fun activities.
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.
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.