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Websites & Apps Literacy Websites
Language Name URL Description Age/Grade
English & Spanish texts online
myOn www.myon.com
PreK5th.
English Starfall www.starfall.com
Preschool/PreK, Kinder, 1st
English but songs and poems are in many world languages
Mama Lisa’s World http://www.mamalisa.com
Songs, poems, and nursery rhymes from around the world
English but online texts in many world languages
International Children’s Library http://en.childrenslibrary.org/
Search for online texts from around the world
Spanish Cuentos Interactivos http://www.cuentosinteractivos.org/
Interactive stories for intermediate, advanced, immersion or bilingual students.
Spanish Mi mundo en palabras http://cvc.cervantes.es/ensenanza/mimundo/default.htm
An interactive website in which students can practice Spanish vocabulary.
English Reading Rockets http://www.readingrockets.org/literacyapps
Website that lists apps for literacy skills print awareness, phonics, spelling, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing
PreK5th
English (but lots of Spanish apps are listed)
Lincoln Spanish Immersion Parent Resources
http://www.lincolnspanishimmersion.com/parentresources/iphoneipadapps/
List of iPad apps for Bilingual children.
Literacy Apps
Language Skill(s) Grade(s) or Age(s)
Name Device Icon Price Description
English & Spanish but also available in a several other languages
Ages 35 (Preschool to kinder)
Rosetta Stone: Lingo Letter Sounds app for kids
Free
Duolingo
Spanish Fun Spanish by Studycat
Free Play memory and other fun games to learn and/or review Spanish vocabulary (colors, animals, numbers, food, etc.)
Spanish Learn to Read with Choco
Free Colors with Phonemes, letters, syllables and words
Spanish Study Spanish Verb Conjugations
Spanish Lee Paso a Paso
Free Games to continue to work on silabas y palabras
Spanish Comprehension Grades 35 BrainPop Película del día
Spanish Vocabulary Grades 25 Noyo Spanish Vocabulary Builders
$0.99 $3.99
A series of Spanish language learning apps that are teacher reviewed and recommended. Beginning Spanish language learners can use these apps to continue to practice their vocabulary
Spanish Cartilla Aprender a Leer
English Comprehension Grades 25 Aesop’s Quest iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch
$0.99 Aesop's Quest, based on Aesop's Fables, is a learning game where the student must remember elements of a story to complete a level. At the end of each story segment or level, the student is rewarded with puzzle pieces. After solving the puzzle, the story is complete and the child can continue to the next story. Developed in association with the Virginia Department of Education.
English Comprehension, Phonics
PreK, K Learn with Homer iPad
Free A learntoread app for kids ages 3 to 6 that incorporates drawing, voice recording, stories, songs, and more, along with more traditional phonics exercises. This app can be helpful for kids who have speech production issues and organization of language issues.
English but students can create shows in any language!
All Puppet Pals iPhone, iPad
Free Choose different characters and settings to make and record your own puppet shows.
Toontastic
Allows children to create their own stories providing tools to create characters and stories.
English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese,Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese
Book Creator iPad
$4.99 Book Creator is the simple way to make your own beautiful ebooks, right on your iPad. Book Creator is ideal for making all kinds of books, including children's picture books, photo books, journals, textbooks and more. And when you're done, easily share your book, or even publish to the iBooks Store!
English Phonics Awareness iPhone, iPad, iPod
Free
English, Spanish, Italian
Milly, Molly, and the Bike Ride
iPad
$2.99 Interactive book with puzzles and games.
English Phonics TicTacToe
Free Practice phonics skills in a challenging tictactoe game.
English Phonemic Awareness
Preschool to 1st Grade
Reading Magic 1 iPhone, iPad
Free Builds students’ phonemic awareness (ability to hear sounds in spoken words)
English Phonemic Awareness & Phonics
Preschool to 1st Grade
Reading Magic 2 iPhone, iPad
Free Builds on skills developed in Reading 1 and now students practice with consonant blends (sw, br, cl, etc.) Students blend the sounds the hear to make words (and check to see if it matches the picture), segment words into their individual phonemes (sounds), and .
English Phonemic Awareness & Phonics
Preschool to 1st Grade
Reading Magic 3 iPhone, iPad
Free Builds on skills in Reading Magic 2
Sentence Reading Magic iPad
Free Sentence Reading Magic introduces students to simple three letter words. The app has a reading mode and a sentence building mode. In the reading mode students can read and hear words read to them by a male or female narrator. The words are displayed with a picture to provide context for their meanings. In the sentence building mode of Sentence Reading Magic, students construct simple sentences by dragging and dropping words into the correct order. Students can hear the sentence read to them before attempting to build the sentence.
English Kidioms
The Kidioms iPad app makes learning idioms fun for everyone.. The app uses an interactive notebook to present an idiom, it's meaning and an example showing the idiom used in context. Each page of the notebook also has a graphic to help illustrate the idiom’s meaning. Kidioms offers three interactive activities to help reinforce the concepts and provide practice using and understanding the idioms Word Drop,Missing Word, and MatchUp.
English All Literacy Leveler
Free Scan books and find out it’s lexile and guided reading level
English & Spanish
All Tales2Go iPhone, iPad, iPod
Free Tales2Go is a Netflix-like service that streams thousands of namebrand audio book titles from leading publishers to desktops, laptops and mobile devices. Try Tales2Go for FREE for 30 days.
English (but one story is available in Spanish)
Meme Tales iPhone, iPad
Free A variety of children's stories and picture books (with audio) with something for every child at every reading stage! Keep kids excited and motivated with points and stickers. Basic books, books for first time readers and longer classic tales as well. Books can be read with audio playback (autoplay) or without it.
Math Websites
Name URL Description Age(s)/Grade(s)
About Math www.aboutmath.com Extra problems, worksheets for homework
Multiplication www.multiplication.com Competing with other students who are online
IXL www.ixl.com
Arcademics www.arcademics.com/games/ (many different games for different skills)
Arcademics Alien Math www.arcademics.com/games/alien/alien.html
One digit addition
Canoe Puppies www.arcademics.com/games/canoepuppies/canoepuppies.html
Adding two digit numbers
Drag Race Division www.arcademics.com/games/dragrace/dragrace.html
Dividing two digit by one digit
Dirt Bike www.arcademics.com/games/dirtbikecomparingfractions/dirtbikecomparingfractions.html
Comparing Fractions
Math Apps
Language Grade(s)/ Age(s)
Name Icon Device Price Description
Dragon Box 2
DragonBox 2 is a simple and compelling game designed to hook kids and adults into algebra, making a potentially difficult subject accessible. Dragon Box starts simply, but before you know it, you’re solving complex puzzles and learning and applying the rules of algebra (multiplication, division, fractions, factoring etc).
Motion Math
Motion Math follows a star that has fallen from space, and must bound backup, up, up to its home in the stars. Moving fractions to their correct place on the number line is the only way to return. By playing Motion Math, learners improve their ability to perceive and estimate fractions in multiple forms.
Wolfram Alpha
Algebra Touch
Say you have x + 3 = 5. You can drag the 3 to the other side of the equation. Enjoy the wonderful conceptual leaps of algebra, without getting bogged down by the tedium of traditional methods.
1st5th Arithmetick
The objective in ArithmeTick is to solve as many problems as possible before time runs out. You are awarded points for each correct answer depending on the difficulty and additional time for each correct answer. A practice mode is also included to help sharpen your math skills!
2nd5th Mathboard Addition
Free More than just standard drills, MathBoard encourages students to actually solve problems, and not just guess at answers. This is done by providing multiple answer styles, as well as a scratchboard area where problems can be worked out by hand. Students can also turn to MathBoard's Problem Solver for further help. This powerful teaching feature walks students through the steps required to solve equations. Additionally, the included quick reference tables serve as a valuable learning tool.
1st5th MathBoard
$4.99 More than just standard drills, MathBoard encourages students to actually solve problems, and not just guess at answers. This is done by providing multiple answer styles, as well as a scratchboard area where problems can be worked out by hand. Students can also turn to MathBoard's Problem Solver for further help. This powerful teaching feature walks students through the steps required to solve equations. Additionally, the included quick reference tables serve as a valuable learning tool.
3rd5th Slice Fractions
$2.99 Slice through ice and lava to clear the mammoth’s path, unraveling the mystery of fractions! The game covers the following fraction concepts: Partwhole partitioning, numerator / Denominator notation, equivalent fractions, fraction ordering, and subtracting fractions from 1
1st 3rd AB Math
$1.99
Kinder3rd Math Kids for Phineas and Ferb
Free
1st 5th Math Drills Lite
$4.99
911 yr Sushi Monster
Free Strengthen reasoning strategies for whole number addition and multiplication by helping monsters make a target sum or product. Earn points with each correct answer… but watch out for distractions! To be successful, plan ahead and strategically select numbers from the sushi counter.
Social Studies, Science & Technology Apps
Language Grade(s)/ Age(s)
Name Icon Device Price Description
English Grades 35 Simple Physics
iPhone and iPad
$1.99 SimplePhysics lets you design complex structures for everything from tree houses to ferris wheels and then simulates your design with a sophisticated physics engine.
English PreK to 5th grade
Bobo Explores Light
iPhone, iPad, Android
$4.99 Hold a science museum in the palm of your hand! This app takes fundamental scientific concepts for schoolage children and injects them with humor, astonishment and whimsy.
App is in English but movies can be in any language!
All Lego Movie Maker
iPhone and iPad
Free Help your child bring their LEGO characters to life with the LEGO Movie Maker App. This fun, kidfriendly app brings the whole family together to create a custom LEGO stopmotion movie. Simple tools and guides make it easy to shoot, edit, and even score your movie with music. Add one of the customizable title cards then share it online and, who knows, you may have the next summer blockbuster in your hands.
English, Spanish, or French
PreK, Kinder The Adventures of Alex: Electricity
iPad $0.99 The Adventures of Alex: Electricity is a new iPad app available in English and Spanish. It’s an educational ebook with a funny twist at the end.
Brain Pop
Language Grade(s)/ Age(s)
Name Icon Device Price Description