“BEST IPAD APPS FOR ENGLISH TEACHERS”

By Imane Chouaibi

Selected Categories of Ipad Apps

Reading Writing

Pronunciation Grammar

ReadingStanza 

Read digital books on your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad.

Choose from various free classic and contemporary works available from Project Gutenberg, Feedbooks and other sources or purchase popular new books from partner stores.

Stanza also that lets you store and organize hundreds of downloaded books. provides an organizer

With Stanza, teachers and students can easily access an entire library of reading materials, as well as reference materials.

WritingMy Story Elementary students can use this iPad app to create e-books

complete with drawings, photos, writing and voice. Simple tools allow children to become authors and

publishers.e-books can be shared within the app or via email; they can

even be uploaded to iBooks. With My Story, students can develop literacy, creativity and

imagination, as well as their storytelling skills.

Writing PromptThis writing prompt app uses pictures, colors, words, genres

and different types of writing to provide creative inspiration for writers and writing students.

The app also includes a database of 600 creative writing   prompts in the form of quotes, story openers and writing exercises that can be used to start student writing projects.

Pages

This word processor app for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch allows teachers and students to create assignments, presentations, handouts, tests, and other types of documents that includes text and graphics.

Sixteen templates are provided for different types of documents, and pages can be uploaded to iCloud and accessed from other Apple devices.

PronunciationAlphabytes For younger students, this animated iPad app is a fun aid for learning

the shapes and sounds of letters.

In addition to watching animated sequences with voice-overs and sound effects for each letter, students can learn to write by tracing their shapes.

Games for spelling and reading are also provided.

 Bob Books Reading Magic HD

This phonic-based interactive game for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad uses consistency and repetition to help beginning readers sound out simple words and learn how to spell the words they read.

Hand-drawn illustrations and animations bring simple stories to life, and four game levels will keep students challenged.

GrammarGrammar Up this iPhone and iPad app provides a quiz system with over 1,800 grammar

questions in 20 different categories.

Older students can use the quizes to help prepare for various tests and exams by going through categories of questions or they can simulate the test environment with random questions.

The quiz format and real-time error feedback provide students with the opportunity to improve their strategies for grammar success.

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