Rosetta Stone Kids Reading

Rosetta Stone Kids Reading is the free new iPad app from the award winning program, Rosetta Stone.  This is a fun easy to use app designed for kids 3-7 yrs old learning how to read.  This game tracks and monitors a student's progress and each lesson is tailored for a individual's Reading Level.  There are over 50 games and 600 activities the kids can play through as they focus on skills such as: phonics, vocabulary, rhyming, and much much more.

I highly recommend checking out Rosetta Stone Kids Reading by clicking here!!!

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Thanks to Class Tech Tips for the heads up!!!

Teach Your Monster to Read

Teache Your Monster to Read is a wonderful new site/app for Game Based Learning that I just found out about from Ozge Karagolu's amazing blog.  Basically, a student creates a monster that they can then use to play educational games involving letters/words working on their phonics and reading skills.  This is a highly engaging game and best of all has an educational portal where educators can create/manage student accounts.

I highly recommend checking out Teach Your Monster to Read by clicking here!!!

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Story Bug

Story Bug is a wonderful free iOS app that students can use to collaboratively read along a children's story at the same time w/ another person on a different device combining reading & video chat.  These stories cover a wide range of educational topics and are for ages up to 6 yrs old.  Best of all, synchronized sharing allows for users to point to words, turn pages, and more, together at the same time to help develop Reading and Comprehension skills.

I highly recommend checking out Story Bug by clicking here!!!

For more info check out Edshelf.
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Book Builder

Book Builder is a nice free iOS app for Reading.  This app acts like a Choose Your Own Adventure style book where a picture book is read and then the user gets to decide between two different paths to take.  There are two story books to choose from w/ over 30 different endings and each story can be narrated as well.  As the narration is read it also highlights the words to help students w/ their Reading skills.

I highly recommend checking out Book Builder by clicking here!!!

BoomWriter

BoomWriter is a fantastic free online educational tool (ideal for grades 3rd-8th) that schools everywhere are using to help their students Reading/Writing skills.  This is done through an innovative collaborative writing process where students create a digital story and build it by writing chapter by chapter and voting on which one should be included in the finished product.  Best of all, is the educational portal where teachers create/manage student accounts and receive a free published copy of their class's first book/story.

I highly recommend checking out BoomWriter by clicking here!!!

Check out WordWriter for ways to introduce and help students build their Vocabulary skills.

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Sight Words Space

Sight Words Space is a (free today) iPad app designed for KDG/1st graders learning how to read and working on Science vocabulary words.  The app is an interactive workbook that has students tracing words, listening to words, and playing fun interactive activities to help reinforce reading and word recognition.  Also, students will be learning about Space, counting stars, and more.

I highly recommend checking out Sight Words Space by clicking here!!!

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Marvel Origins

Marvel Origins is a excellent free new iOS app that combines Game Based Learning w/ interactive stories to help develop student Reading skills.  The way this works is a person reads along w/ the story (narrated by Stan Lee) as they play interactive games, unlock other stories (i.e. Hulk, Spiderman, etc.) and collect items.  This app has high replay value and should help enhance students love of learning reading their favorite comic book heroes.

I highly recommend checking out Marvel Origins by clicking here!!!

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Write to Read

Writer to Read is an amazing iPad app designed for kids 3-10 yrs to help w/ their Reading & Writing skills by creating a book.  W/ that in mind it also makes it an ideal app for introducing digital storytelling to students that is aligned to Common Core Standards.  The way this works is a child/student write's a sentence to the best of their ability and then an adult/teacher translates the sentence into proper text.  This helps students learn visually as they see their sentenc
e next to the correct one while learning to read, write, and spell.  Another nice feature is the unique keyboard that separates consonants and vowels by color and being able to record audio to help further their learning.

I highly recommend checking out Write to Read by clicking here!!!

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Reading Raven HD

Reading Raven HD is a great iPad app for beginner readers.  This beautiful interactive app has young students learning by completing lessons starting w/ letters and phonics to reading full sentences.  All of this is done in a fun Game Based Learning environment where kids play and complete 11 different games/activities while earning rewards such as stickers.  This game allows for multiple accounts, saves progress, and best of all lets a adult set the Reading Level.

I highly recommend checking out Reading Raven HD by clicking here!!!

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Sumdog

Sumdog is an excellent iPad for educational games in Math, Reading, and Writing.  Based on the popular website, Sumdog has student's playing against other student's worldwide to build their skills. The only requirement is signing up on their free website to be able to play the games on an iPad.

I highly recommend checking out Sumdog by clicking here!!!

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Hideout: Early Reading

Hideout: Early Reading is a wonderful free iOS app for young readers to help them w/ their Reading skills.  This is done through a series of educational activities/games that has students trying to sound out words, find the correct letter, word recognition, and more.  Also, this game features a wide variety of things that engage young learners, such as animations, music, and more.

I highly recommend checking out Hideout: Early Reading by clicking here!!

For my Pinterest board on Educational iOS Apps click here.
For Hideout on Edshelf click here.

Kindoma Storytimer

Kindoma Storytime is an interesting iOS app that combines "story time" w/ video chat to allow others to read a digital book together.  This is really good when wanting to read a story w/ another who is not around (i.e. child, student, etc).  The books can be selected by Reading and then are synced together so when a page is turned it does it on both devices.  Another great feature is the ability to point or highlight words so that the other person can see what is going on in real time.  For example, it's a great way to access student comprehension by having them point to items in the book.

I highly recommend checking out Kindoma Storytime by clicking here!!!

For my Pinterest board on Educational iOS Apps click here.

Endless Reader

Endless Reader is a fun iOS app for beginner readers working on sight words.  This interactive app focuses on the most commonly used sight words and schools and helps reinforce them through the use of animations, puzzles, and sentences.

I highly recommend checking out Endless Reader by clicking here!!!

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