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1 Orli Lahav, M.A. Educational Therapist 818.925.6754
App Description Skill Area Primary Audience Cost
ABA Problem Solving Game – What Rhymes?
A rhyming game with concrete pictures presented against a non-distracting background.
Phonemic Awareness
PreK-2nd $1.99
Beginning Sounds Interactive Game
A matching game in which picture names are read aloud.
Phonemic Awareness
PreK-2nd $0.99
Dora ABCs Rhyming An adventure game focused on
discovering rhymes and initial, medial, and final sounds.
Phonemic Awareness
PreK-2nd $2.99
iSongs with Tanvor
Nursery rhymes with visuals and lyrics. Phonemic Awareness
PreK-2nd $0.99
Oz Phonics 1
Phonemic awareness exercises focused on sound matching, vowels, missing
sounds, etc.
Phonemic Awareness
PreK-2nd $2.99
Phonics Awareness
Activities centered on segmenting, blending, and learning vowel sounds.
Phonemic Awareness
PreK-2nd Free
Rhyming Words A rhyming game with concrete
pictures presented against a non-distracting background.
Phonemic Awareness
PreK-2nd $0.99
Super Why!
An interactive game with cartoon TV characters that practices the alphabet, rhyming, spelling, writing, and reading.
Phonemic Awareness
PreK-2nd $3.99
ABC Magic Phonics A simple clean app for learning the
alphabet and the sounds of each letter. Phonics PreK-2nd Free
ABC PocketPhonics A phonics app that teaches letter
sounds, letter writing, spelling, and simple decoding.
Phonics PreK-2nd Free
$2.99*
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App Description Skill Area Primary Audience Cost
ABCD Teacher for Kids A simple colorful version of picture-based
alphabet flashcards with audio. Phonics PreK-2nd $0.99
Alphabet Tracing Cute interactive tracing pages to
practice letter and number formation. Phonics PreK-2nd
Free $2.99*
Backyard Phonics Adventure
An adventure game focused on beginning phonics.
Phonics PreK-2nd Free
$1.99*
Bob Books #1 – Reading Magic
Bob Books short storybooks to learn and practice sounding out simple words.
Phonics PreK-2nd Free
$3.99*
C is for Cow Alphabet letters are linked to
corresponding animals. App also contains animal facts and games.
Phonics PreK-2nd $0.99
Fridge Magnet Letters An imitation of traditional fridge magnet letters. Children can practice creating words with interesting looking letters.
Phonics PreK-2nd $1.99
Fry Words A simple flashcard app of the Fry 1000
most common words. Phonics PreK-2nd Free
Get Ready for School: Ready to Read
A simple app to practice reading short words, blending sounds, and working
with syllables. Phonics PreK-2nd $1.99
Goodnight ABC An interactive game with animals that teaches letters, letter sounds, colors,
numbers, and vocabulary. Phonics PreK-2nd $1.99
Howie Word Family A word family and rhyming game that incorporates the phonemic
awareness skill of isolation. Phonics PreK-2nd
Free $2.99*
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3 Orli Lahav, M.A. Educational Therapist 818.925.6754
App Description Skill Area Primary Audience Cost
I See Sam Dynamic short storybooks that
teach letter sounds and provide repeated practice.
Phonics PreK-2nd Free*
$2.99**
Interactive Alphabet ABCs
An interactive app with music, a baby mode, and printable crafts.
Phonics PreK-2nd $2.99
Letter Muncher A simple game of connecting
images to corresponding letters. Includes progress reports.
Phonics PreK-2nd $1.99
Little Reader Two customizable apps for learning to
read 3 or 4 letter words. Phonics PreK-2nd
Free $0.99*
Little Writer A simple fun tracing app for students
to learn and practice letter formation. Phonics PreK-2nd Free
Monkey Word School Adventure
A dynamic game with activities to practice phonics, sight words,
and spelling. Phonics PreK-2nd $1.99
Montessori Letter Sounds HD
An app based on the Montessori method with sound games, matching, and a
moveable alphabet. Phonics PreK-2nd $2.99
Phonics Fun 1 A matching game with beginning
letter sounds and pictures. Phonics PreK-2nd Free
Phonics Genius Over 6,000 words grouped by phonics sounds for recognition and practice.
Phonics PreK-2nd Free
Phonics Rhyming Bee A simple game that helps students to
identify and sort rhyming words. Phonics PreK-2nd
Free $2.99*
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4 Orli Lahav, M.A. Educational Therapist 818.925.6754
App Description Skill Area Primary Audience Cost
Phonics Tic-Tac-Toe A quick interactive game of tic-tac-toe with simple phonics related questions.
Phonics PreK-2nd Free
Reading Raven HD An adventure game with letter
matching, letter formation, vocabulary, initial sounds, spelling, word groups, etc.
Phonics PreK-2nd $3.99
Starfall Learn to Read Starfall’s simple storybooks highlighting a
vowel sound and its related spelling. Phonics PreK-2nd $2.99
Word Magic A simple game in which students choose
the missing letter for each picture. Phonics PreK-2nd $0.99
Word Wagon An interactive game with characters that
play with letters, words, and phonics. Phonics PreK-2nd $1.99
Backseat Driver Interactive Storybooks
Interactive storybooks for young children with adorable characters
and an optional voiceover.
Reading Fluency
PreK-2nd $1.99**
Brush of Truth An interactive “choose your own adventure” story with
20 possible endings.
Reading Fluency
3rd-6th $1.99
Dr. Seuss Bookshelf Dr. Seuss books and entertainment app. Reading Fluency
PreK-2nd Free*
$3.99**
Fluency Timer Pro An adjustable timer that automatically records students’ fluency readings for
playback and sharing.
Reading Fluency
2nd-6th $0.99
K12 Timed Reading Practice
Timed reading practice that can be personalized for multiple students.
Contains more than 250 short stories.
Reading Fluency
K-4th Free
$1.99*
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App Description Skill Area Primary Audience Cost
MeeGenius! Books A read-along app with illustrations, narration, and word highlighting.
Reading Fluency
PreK-4th $2.99**
Reader Tracker A reading log to track the name, author,
and dates for each book read. Reading Fluency
2nd-6th $0.99
Sight Words by Photo Touch
A simple game of identification to help students learn and practice sight words.
Reading Fluency
PreK-2nd Free
Story Time for Kids An interactive storybook app with
illustration, narration, and sound effects. Reading Fluency
2nd-6th Free*
$0.99**
Wild About Books! An interactive rhyming picture book. Reading Fluency
PreK-4th $4.99
Reading Remedies A quick and easy assessment of
phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, and word attack skills.
Assessment PreK-6th $0.99
Blanks A simple vocabulary game with
definitions and word choices. Vocabulary 7th-12th Free
Bluster! A word matching game based on initial
sounds, rhyming words, word roots, affixes, and parts of speech.
Vocabulary 6th-9th $0.99**
Chicktionary & Chicktionary Coop
A word game in which you unscramble a group of letters to form as many
words as possible. Vocabulary 4th-12th
Free $0.99**
Jumbline 2 Simply rearrange the scrambled letters
into as many words as possible. Vocabulary 4th-12th
Free $1.99*
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App Description Skill Area Primary Audience Cost
Mad Libs Fun interactive fill-in-the-blank stories
that provide repeated practice with parts of speech
Vocabulary 6th-9th Free*
$1.99**
Marie’s Words 550 visually based vocabulary
flashcards for the SAT and literature. Vocabulary 9th-12th
$2.99 $19.99**
Middle School Vocab Pro 7th Grade
A driving game with contextual vocabulary questions. Levels are
divided based on parts of speech. Vocabulary 6th-8th
Free $0.99*
Opposite Ocean 1 & 2 Solve puzzles by choosing the
correct antonym. Vocabulary 2nd-6th $0.99
Quizlet A great resource for creating
personalized flashcards online and studying them on your iPad.
Vocabulary 3rd-12th Free
Same Meaning Magic 1 & 2
Solve puzzles by choosing the correct synonym.
Vocabulary 2nd-6th $0.99
Same Sound Spell Bound
Solve puzzles by choosing the correct homophone.
Vocabulary 2nd-6th $0.99
Speech with Milo: Nouns, Verbs, Adj
An animation intensive app with audio and visuals to help students
learn new vocabulary. Vocabulary PreK-2nd $2.99
The Opposites A word matching game with Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 words.
Vocabulary 4th-12th Free
What Does Not Belong? A simple picture based game that asks students to determine which
item does not belong. Vocabulary PreK-2nd Free
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App Description Skill Area Primary Audience Cost
Wordflick Edu A fast-paced word game in which you
unscramble a group of letters to form as many words as possible.
Vocabulary 4th-12th $0.99
Abitalk Reading Comprehension
Subject specific reading comp apps that focus on life sciences, social studies, and general language arts for 2nd-5th grade.
Reading Comp 2nd-5th Free
$2.99*
Language Empires A dynamic game that targets numerous
language skills: questions, inferences, vocab, predictions, sequencing, etc.
Reading Comp 3rd-8th $21.99
LAZ Level Libraries A library of 12 books per level for
beginning readers. Reading Comp PreK-6th $6.99
MimioReading
Short reading comprehension activities. Must be paired with the MimioReading
Comprehension Suite. Reading Comp 3rd-8th Free
MiniMod Fact or Opinion
Questions and games to help develop the comp skill of fact or opinion.
Aligned with new CCSS. Reading Comp 2nd-6th $3.99
MiniMod Reading for Details
Questions and games to help develop the comp skill of reading for details.
Aligned with new CCSS. Reading Comp 2nd-6th
$3.99 $8.99**
Professor Garfield Fact or Opinion
An interactive story to help students learn the difference between fact and opinion.
Reading Comp 3rd-6th Free
Question Builder A series of questions paired with images
to help students learn to answer abstract questions and infer the correct response.
Reading Comp 2nd-6th $5.99
Reading Comp – Solar System
An interactive app designed to teach science and astronomy while developing
reading comp skills and vocabulary. Reading Comp 3rd-8th
Free $2.99*
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App Description Skill Area Primary Audience Cost
Reading Comp – Fable Edition
Short fables with reading comp quizzes at the end. Includes multi-player recall
games and progress scores. Reading Comp 2nd-5th $0.99
Reading Comp Prep 3rd, 4th, 5th, & 6th Grades
Selected grade level passages with reading comp questions.
Aligned with CCSS. Reading Comp 3rd-6th $2.99
iLuv Drawing Monsters A simple way to create monsters for
characters in creative stories. Storytelling 1st-6th $1.99
Puppet Pals HD A creative app for generating unique
shows with animation and audio. Storytelling 1st-6th
Free* $0.99**
StoryBuddy 2 A platform for creating personalized
picture books with narration and publishing capabilities.
Storytelling 1st-6th Free
$5.99*
Strip Designer Create comic strips using templates
and personal photos. Storytelling 1st-6th $2.99
Toontastic A storytelling tool that enables
students to draw, animate, and share their cartoons and stories.
Storytelling 3rd-5th Free*
$12.99**
Fill the Gap Smudge A unique spelling app focused on filling in the missing letters to help learners avoid
common mistakes in English. Spelling 1st-3rd
Free $2.99*
Hangman Free HD A simple fun game of hangman with one
player and two player options. Spelling 1st-12th Free
Montessori Crosswords 320 word-image-audio-phonics
combinations to teach beginning readers to sound out words and spell.
Spelling PreK-2nd $2.99
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App Description Skill Area Primary Audience Cost
My Spell Test A customizable spelling app that allows
personalized spelling lists with voice recording capability.
Spelling 1st-6th Free
Rocket Speller A simple engaging game for young
children learning to spell basic words. Spelling PreK-2nd Free
Simplex Spelling HD A “reverse phonics” approach spelling
app using Dolch sight words. App includes person spelling coach.
Spelling PreK-4th Free
$4.99*
Simplex Spelling Phonics Advanced Phonograms
A spelling app dedicated to the more challenging letter combinations. App
includes person spelling coach. Spelling 3rd-6th $4.99
Skill Builder Spelling A simple customizable spelling app with
both classic and scramble modes. Spelling 3rd-8th Free
Spell Games by Tap to Learn
A fun game for older students to practice correct spelling by
choosing between two options. Spelling 9th-12th Free
SpellingCity A dynamic spelling app filled with games
to practice numerous premade lists. Premium membership is available.
Spelling 1st-12th Free
Spelling Hero A dynamic spelling game where the
superhero must spell the word correctly to defeat the villain.
Spelling 4th-8th Free
Spellosaur A customizable spelling app that allows
personalized spelling lists with various games for practice.
Spelling 1st-6th Free
$3.99*
Tap to Learn Grammar App
An interactive book with step-by-step instruction in English grammar.
Grammar 3rd-8th $0.99
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App Description Skill Area Primary Audience Cost
Sentence Builder An activity with pictures designed to help build grammatically correct sentences.
Grammar 2nd-5th $5.99
Sentence Builder Teen An activity with pictures designed to help build grammatically correct sentences.
Grammar 6th-8th $5.99
Rainbow Sentences A dynamic activity with audio and visuals
to help students build sentences. Grammar 2nd-5th $7.99
Grammar Jammers Primary
An animated app with songs to explain the basic parts of speech.
Grammar PreK-2nd Free
English Grammar in Use Activities
A concrete app with activities to practice English grammar. For
intermediate learners. Grammar 6th-12th $4.99
Writer’s Hat An idea generator to inspire creative
writing. Useful for students struggling with generating ideas.
Writing 1st-5th $0.99
Dragon Dictation An easy-to-use voice recognition app. Writing 3rd-12th Free
Writing Prompts for Kids A quick writing prompt generator with a
built-in thesaurus and the ability to create prompts from various categories.
Writing 3rd-8th $1.99
StoryBuilder An app for creating simple stories and
developing cohesive paragraphs. Students can record themselves.
Writing 3rd-8th $7.99
Build a Story A fun app with characters and themes
to help children create, develop, and write stories.
Writing 1st-5th Free
$3.99*
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App Description Skill Area Primary Audience Cost
iTooch Language Arts 3rd-8th Grades
A large collection of educational activities. Based on CCSS for
3rd-8th graders. Lang. Arts 3rd-8th $4.99
Language Adventures Quiz Game Show
Gr. 1-3 & 4-6
A dynamic lang. arts based game show to practice word parts, vocab, reading
comp, writing, spelling, etc. Lang. Arts
1st-3rd 4th-6th
$1.99
Chicken Coop Fractions A dynamic game for practicing fraction
concepts through visual estimation. Math 5th-8th Free
Count, Sort and Match A fun interactive game to teach
foundational math concepts. Math PreK-2nd $0.99
DragonBox+ A simple engaging app that
teaches algebraic concepts in a fun non-threatening way.
Math 5th-8th $5.99
Finger Count Multi Touch
A simple app that teaches young children to count using their fingers as
objects move across the screen. Math PreK-2nd $0.99
iTooch Math 3rd-8th Grades
A large collection of educational activities. Based on CCSS for
3rd-8th graders. Math 3rd-8th $4.99
Jungle Picnic A fun interactive game to teach
foundational math concepts. Math PreK-2nd Free
Khan Academy An enormous library with instructional
videos in a variety of math topics. Math 8th-12th Free
Math Games – Astro Math
An arcade game to practice prime factorization for 2, 3, 5, and 7.
Math 3rd-5th $0.99
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App Description Skill Area Primary Audience Cost
Math Quiz Game Show Gr. 1-3 & Gr. 4-6
A dynamic math based game show to practice operations, measurement, geometry, place value, logic etc.
Math 1st-3rd 4th-6th
$1.99
Motion Math Zoom An animal adventure game focused on
teaching number line concepts and place value.
Math 1st-5th Free
$4.99*
Native Numbers Number sense curriculum-based app that teaches foundational
number concepts. Math 1st-3rd
Free $4.99*
Pearl Diver An interactive number line game
to practice place value, decimals, and fraction concepts.
Math 5th-8th Free
Sakura Quick Math A clean simple math app for practicing
all four operations at multiple levels. Math 3rd-6th $1.99
Slice It! A fun puzzle game that allows children
to practice working with fraction concepts and symmetry.
Math 1st-5th Free
$0.99*
Tangram XL Popular tangram game made with kids in mind. Useful for developing
geometric concepts. Math 1st-5th
Free $0.99*
UnderSea Adventures Game
A simple puzzle game to practice basic operations.
Math 1st-3rd Free*
$1.99**
Virtual Manipulatives A virtual set of fraction, decimal
and percent bars. Math 4th-8th Free
3D Brain A 3D brain that helps students to discover
the regions and functions of the brain. Includes information on brain damage.
Science 3rd-8th Free
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App Description Skill Area Primary Audience Cost
Body Organs 4 Kids A dynamic visual exploration of the
organs in the human body with complete descriptions and fun facts.
Science 3rd-8th $1.99
Bone Scan Bob A fun introduction to skeletal anatomy. Science 5th-8th $0.99
Discover Your Body HD A fun app that helps children to learn about the body’s organs and parts.
Science 1st-5th $2.99
Distant Suns (max) A personal guide to the cosmos with
simple clear descriptions. Science 3rd-8th $9.99
iLearn Solar System HD An exploration of the Solar System using
a 3D model for young children. Science 1st-3rd
Free $2.99*
NASA App Current information on NASA missions including images, stories, and videos.
Science 3rd-8th Free
National Geographic Explorer for
Home Learning
A virtual newsstand for National Geographic Explorer magazines.
Science 3rd-8th Free*
$3.99**
NOVA Elements An interactive periodic table with
explanations and descriptions of all the elements. Includes games.
Science 8th-12th Free
Nutty Newton Picture Book
A fun animated version of Newton’s life and scientific discoveries.
Science 1st-3rd Free
$0.99*
Star Walk HD A beautiful stargazing app with
explanations and descriptions of planets and constellations.
Science 3rd-8th $2.99
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App Description Skill Area Primary Audience Cost
The Magic School Bus: Oceans
An interactive exploration of the ocean floor with the Magic School
Bus characters. Science PreK-2nd
Free $7.99*
GeoExpert HD A fun app for learning about all the
countries and continents. Geography 5th-8th $3.99
Geography Drive USA A fact-packed game about the states
and map reading. Includes shapes, capitals, nicknames, flags, etc.
Geography 1st-5th $4.99
Learn World Geography
A simple app for learning and studying the geography of the world.
Geography 6th-12th Free
Shake the States A fun game to learn the placement of
each state on the map of the USA. Geography 1st-5th $1.99
Stack the States A dynamic game to learn states capitals, shapes, geographic locations, and flags.
Geography 1st-5th $0.99
State Bingo and Road Trip US
An engaging app with bingo and riddles to help children discover the US.
Geography 1st-5th $2.99
Complete Class Organizer
A school planner app that allows the user to take notes and record lectures with
audio sync capability. Organization 8th-12th $4.99
Dropbox A online cloud service that allows the user access to files from any device.
Organization 8th-12th Free
Evernote A great app for writing notes, planning,
creating to-do lists, and organizing thoughts and tasks.
Organization 8th-12th Free
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App Description Skill Area Primary Audience Cost
Habits Pro A simple app to create and track
habits with daily, weekly, and monthly progress charts.
Organization 8th-12th $0.99
iThoughts A flexible and thorough mind mapping
tool with numerous layouts and additional task management tools.
Organization 6th-12th $9.99
Mindjet Maps A dynamic graphic organizer for with intuitive visual maps for brainstorming
and prewriting. Organization 6th-12th Free
Popplet A graphic organizer tool for
brainstorming and prewriting. Organization 6th-12th $4.99
Reminders and Tasks Made Easy Beep Me
A simple reminder app with a memo option. Syncs with other devices.
Organization 6th-12th Free
$1.99*
ShowMe Interactive Whiteboard
An interactive personal whiteboard that makes group work easier and more
organized. Upload and share videos. Organization 6th-12th Free
sling Note A useful research tool that allows the user to pair multiple apps on the same screen
and to move easily between them. Organization 6th-12th $2.99
* = There is a free lite version of the app and a complete version for the price listed. ** = There is a free lite version of the app and various in-app purchases available for different prices.