Language+Arts

Grade Range: K-1 Summary: A great tutoring app for writing letters (capital and lower case) and numbers. Perfect for students with a lot of reversals!
 * iWrite Words**

Grade Range: 2-3 Summary: Students must choose words to form a sentence describing the given picture.
 * iSentence**

Grade Range: K-1 Summary: Words are given for students to spell. Totally customizable. Can create your own word lists and add pictures of your own.
 * Little Speller**

Grade Range: K-2 Summary: Students practice phonics by hearing letter sounds and tracing over letters and words. This is good for handwriting (you can choose print or cursive that looks like Peterson) as much as phonics. The phonics is more for K-1. Cursive handwriting grade 2.
 * Pocket Phonics**

Grade Range: K-2 Summary: PBS Kids app from The Electric Company. Includes games based on video clips with phonics themes...making words with silent "e", "hard c" etc. You tap to collect word balls as you view the engaging phonics lesson videos. Then you use the word balls collected to play a game to practice the target phonics skill.
 * Word Ball**

Grade Range: K-2 Summary: A collection of stories read aloud. The biggest drawback is that there are only 15-20 stories and you unlock one each day you open the app. Good for centers.
 * Read Me Stories**

Grade Range: K-1 Lists of simple words with pictures are available. Does not pronounce letter sounds for student. They just unscramble given letters.
 * Spelling Bug**

Grade Range: K-3 Summary: This isn't fancy, but it's a list of all Dolch Sight Words organized by Pre Primer up to 3rd grade. Nice App for Kindergarten
 * Sight Words**

Grade Range: K-2 Summary: Animated decodable books based on the Bob book series that engage the beginning reader. Options to read or listen. Very interactive.
 * Bob Books**

Grade Range: K-5 Summary: Search and highlight lists of words by grade level or categories (animals, state names, fruits...) Can change the background for primary and the color of highlighting pen. This version is free. Version 2 is .99
 * Word Search Young Readers Edition**

Any grade Summary: This is a relaxed game (no timer) in which you have to create as many words as you can out of a given set of letters. New sets are unlocked as you succeed.
 * Textropolis**
 * Fishtropolis is a similar app

Grade Range: 1-3 Summary: Provides practice for Reading/Listening Comprehension. Students select 1 of 5 stories to read but after a few pages, they must answer 3 questions correctly before earning a chance to play a game or continue reading another chapter of the story. If they answer incorrectly, the student must go back and reread.
 * Aesops Quest**

Grade Range: K-3 Summary: This is a wonderful app that teachers can use to direct Word Building Lessons.
 * Alphabet Magnets**

Grade Range: K-2 Summary: See for yourself. Well worth the $2.99 price tag.
 * Word Wizard**

Grade Range: K-2 Summary: Once again... see for yourself. Well worth the $2.99 price tag.
 * Montesorri Crosswords**

Grade Range: 2-5 Summary: 3 Spelling review games for a premade list of spelling words or you can create your own list of spelling words for students to use. It might be tricky for teachers to make their own lists and save them to all the ipads.
 * Spelling Cat**

Grade Range: 1-3 Summary: A selection of 8 Fables students can choose to have read aloud or they can read silently. A nice feature is the ability for students to record themselves reading a page and immediatly replaying their recording before moving on to the next page. Games, Puzzles, Picture Painting, and a PostCard Creator is also an option with each story.
 * iReading**

Grade Range: K-1 Summary: Practice tracing the printed words that are read aloud. The words are grouped by word families.
 * ABC Writing**

Grade Range: 4-5 Summary: This is a challenging game that develops vocabulary.
 * 7 Words**

Grade Range: K-1 Summary: Students unscramble letters to spell simple words grouped by word families.
 * Word Family**

Grade Range: 1-5 Summary: Students are timed to create as many words as possible with a given set of 7 letters. It's a fun game that reminds me of Boggle.
 * Jumbline 2**

Grade Range: 2-5 Summary: Play the game of scrabble.
 * Scrabble**

Grade Range: 2-5 Summary: A game that reviews homophones.
 * Same Sound Spellbound**

Grade Range: 2-5 Summary: A multiple choice game where students have to find the opposite of the underlined word in a sentence.
 * Opposite Ocean**

Grade Range: K-5 Summary: Online quizzes for schools with Accelerated Reader subscriptions.
 * AR**

Grade Range: 1-5 Summary: An easy graphic organizer that allows you to add text and photos; the finished product can also be emailed to teacher or exported as a jpeg using Dropbox.
 * Popplet Lite**