Technology for Practice
Websites:
TrueFlix – (3-5) non-fiction texts (with option for read aloud), videos, and quizzes
Starfall – (K-2) games and activities for younger students learning how to read
Apps:
Kindergarten – Second Grade
Reading
ABC Reading Magic 1 – (iPhone/iPad) free app for practicing short vowel words.
ABC Reading Magic 2 – (iPhone/iPad) free app for practicing consonant blends.
Vocabulary Spelling City – (iPhone/iPad, Android, or Kindle)free app for learning vocabulary and spelling.
Animals Flip and Mix – (iPhone/iPad) $1.99 app that practices spelling using syllables.
iHowTo-Book – (iPhone/iPad) free app where students can read and/or listen to short stories about daily living skills.
Word Wizard – (iPhone/iPad) $2.99 app for early reading learning.
Felt Board – (iPhone/iPad) $2.99 app for building felt board stories.
Pili Pop – (iPhone/iPad) free app for learning English vocabulary.
Dolch Sight Words – (Android) free app to learn sight words.
Math
Counting Board – (iPhone/iPad) free app for practicing counting and number recognition.
123 Number Magic – (iPhone/iPad) free app for 1 – 10 number concept.
IXL Math Practice – (iPhone/iPad) free app with math practice problems.
Fizzy’s Lunch Lab Fresh Pick – (iPhone/iPad) free app from PBS Kids to enhance math and problem solving skills.
Todo K-2 Math Practice – (iPhone/iPad) free app with math practice.
Tell Time – (iPhone/iPad) free app for learning how to tell time.
Telling Time – (Android) free app to learn how to tell time and read clocks.
Math for Kids – (Android) free app to practice math facts.
Third – Fifth Grade
Reading
Vocabulary Spelling City – (iPhone/iPad, Android) free app for learning vocabulary and spelling.
Word Mover – (iPhone/iPad) free app that helps students develop poems and short stories.
Fotopedia Wild Friends– (iPhone/iPad) free app that includes beautiful pictures of animals along with short passages about each.
World Wildlife Fund: Together – (iPhone/iPad) free app including non-fiction information about animals around the world.
Phrasalstein – (iPhone/iPad, Android) free app for learning phrasal verbs (like “fall apart” or “doze off”).
Phrasal Verbs Machine – (iPhone/iPad, Android) free app for learning phrasal verbs.
World’s Worst Pet – (iPhone/iPad) free app for building vocabulary.
Galaxies by KIDS DISCOVER – (iPhone/iPad) free app including non-fiction text and other features about galaxies.
Civil War by KIDS DISCOVER – (iPhone/iPad) $3.99 app including non-fiction text and other features about the Civil War. *KIDS DISCOVER has many more excellent apps about various subjects for $3.99 each.*
Math
Broken Calculator – (Android) free game to help students develop math skills and number sense
Sushi Monster – (iPad, iPhone) free game developed by Scholastic that helps students practice addition and multiplication facts.
IXL Math Practice – (iPad, iPhone) free app with math practice problems.
5 Dice: Order of Operations Game – (iPad, iPhone) free game to practice order of operations.
Chicken Coop Fractions – (iPad, iPhone) free app that has students match fractions and decimals.
Pizza Fractions 1 – (iPad, iPhone) free app for identifying fractions.
Math Slicer – (Android, iPad, iPhone) $0.99 app for math fluency practice.
10Monkeys Multiplication – (iPhone/iPad) $1.99 for multiplication fact practice.
4 Dice – (iPhone/iPad) $1.99 for fraction practice (add, subtract, multiply, divide).
Other
Bill Nye the Science Guy – (iPhone/iPad) free app for learning science content.
Stack the States – (iPhone/iPad) $0.99 app to quiz knowledge of United States geography.
Stack the Countries – (iPhone/iPad) $1.99 app for quiz knowledge of world geography.
Enjoy Learning U.S. Map – (iPhone/iPad) free app that allows students to learn the United States map.
The Human Body – (iPhone/iPad) $2.99 app for learning about the human body.
