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Mobile Apps - English Language Arts |
All Apps are IOS and only include an Android version if there is a link listed in the description or as an additional app below the iOS version.
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Worlds Worst Pet is a series of vocabulary games that have players bring home Snargg, the world’s worst pet, who has run away. To get Snargg back players have to fill his food dish by learning new vocabulary words. Each of the six levels in the game contain ten dishes (each dish represents a new set of words) that can be filled. Four games are available for each dish. The games are fill-in-the-blank, synonym identification, antonym identification, and definition identification. World’s Worst Pet is designed for students in grades four through eight. The app contains a total of 1,000 tier two vocabulary words.
Devices - iPad 
Bluster is a word matching game that develops vocabulary and word understanding for over 800 words. Players can choose a skill to practice from either rhyming words, prefixes and suffixes, synonyms, homophones, adjectives and more. Students can play in single mode or "versus mode" to play head-to-head or "team mode" and collaborate with a friend and play simultaneously to weather the storm. The app is free, but additional vocabulary packs can be purchased to exceed the built in 800 words. (Bluster Deluxe is currently $4.99 and includes all vocabulary sets.)
Devices - iPad, iPhone |
Vocabulary Spelling City is an app comes with 9 games for spelling and vocabulary. Custom lists can be created by registering online at www.spellingcity.com. Registration is free and lists can be used in all of the games online and in the app.
Devices - iPad, iPhone, Andriod and Website games at www.spellingcity.com 
Trading Cards - by Read Write Think allows students to create trading cards in many categories; fictional characters, real people or places or vocabulary words. Each category that is selected has specific questions to build the card with information to help build summarizing skills.
TECH INFO- Multi-user, ability to print-email-save to photos, no emails required (except the email that is configured on the iPad already). Devices - iPad, Andriod, and Website version at www.readwritethink.org 
Wordflex Touch Dictionary is not the ordinary dictionary or thesaurus! Wordflex "branches" out into a word tree when a word is typed into the search bar, select a branch, then more branches emerge and so on. The words with the branches also have pronunciations (British and American), meanings, root words, origins, etc. Users could easily get lost within the branches. One of the other unique components is the ability of this app is to send (email) a poster of the word tree or save it. The user is also able to swipe around the tree back to where they started or anywhere within the tree they have built.
Devices -iPad 
Story Dice Ideas for Writers is a creative writing prompt tool to assist students develop plot, characters, setting, title, conflict or any story element. The user can select the number of dice "rolled" from 2 through 10. The user taps the screen to roll a random selection of over 200 pictograms in the dictionary. (The user can swipe to view previous rolls if they wish to review.) Several game ideas come with the app. Currently the cost is $1.99
Devices - iPad, iPhone, Andriod 
Scholastic Story Starters is a tool that offers four story themes; fantasy, adventure, sci-fi, and scrambler. To begin a story creation, students first choose a theme and enter their name, then select a grade level. (k-8th grade) The next screen shows four windows and a large lever to "spin" the wheels. Pulling the level spins the story prompts in the windows. The student now has a chance to choose any of the window that they may want to "change up" and spin again. Once they have the prompt they would like to write about the program moves to allow the selection of using either letter, postcard, notebook or newspaper format. When finished the story can be printed.
Devices- iPad, Chromebooks, PCs 
Reading Train Starter - Every child can learn to read with this growing library of engaging picture books. 240 + fun fiction and fascinating non-fiction that kids CAN read and LOVE to read all by themselves. 24 books, 20 songbooks and a 450+ word dictionary completely FREE.
*Free users can read/listen/record all of the books in the free sections, play the game, use the dictionary, and listen to the song books.(Unlimited number of user logins.) * Subscribers get access to all 200+ books, with new books added regularly. * * To access our entire library of books, choose an automatically renewing subscription for $1.99/one month; $6.99/six months; 9.99/twelve months. (U.S. Dollars) * The service can be shared with additional iPads you own (same iTunes account-one registration) . |
