ELA Reading App

Subject Area: English Language Arts: Reading

App Title: Kids A-Z
App Price: Free
Languages: English

Rationale: Kids A-Z app allows students to access developmentally appropriate content and
quizzes, which promote their literacy skills. This app can be downloaded for free on iPhone,
iPad, and iPod Touch. It can also be downloaded on Android and Kindle Fire. Kids A-Z
provides interactive eBooks, which helped in reading and understanding of the text with
interactive annotation tools. It is a great app for educators to do running records to assess
students comprehension with corresponding quizzes.

Standards:
ISTE Standards for Students:
1a. Students articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging technology
to achieve them and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes.

ISTE Standards for Teacher:

7b. Use technology to design and implement a variety of formative and summative assessments
that accommodate learner needs, provide timely feedback to students and inform instruction.

New York State P-12 Common Core Standards:

Standard Strand: Reading Standards for Literature K-5 (RL)
Grade: 1
Topic: Key Ideas and Details
Item number and statement: 2. Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate
understanding of their central message or lesson.

Ontario Curriculum Expectations:

Standard Strand: Reading
Grade: 1
Topic: Reading for Meaning
Item number and statement: Demonstrating Understanding
1.4- demonstrate understanding of a text by retelling the story or restating information from the
text, including the main idea.
 ELA Writing App

Subject Area: English Language Arts: Writing

App Title: Story Patch
App Price: $0.99
Language: English

Rationale: Story Patch is an app for the iPad that students can use to write stories. The app has
over 800 illustrations and characters that can be used in story writing. The characters can be
customized according to the story. With this added feature, the children can also import their
photos from the iPad photo library to make create their personalized stories. Story Patch app
helps in building a valuable storytelling skill by composing and organizing thoughts and ideas. It
also helps in expressing feelings and in developing critical communication skills.

Standards:
ISTE Standards for Students:
3. Students critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge,
produce creative artifacts and make meaningful learning experiences for themselves and others.
6c. Students communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety
of digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations.

ISTE Standards for Teacher

5a: Use technology to create, adapt and personalize learning experiences that foster independent
learning and accommodate learner differences and needs.

New York State P-12 Common Core Standards

Standard Strand: Writing Standards K5 [W]
Grade: 1
Topic: Text types and Purposes
Item number and statement:
3- Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include
some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order and provide
some sense of closure.
Ontario Curriculum Expectations:
Standard Strand: Writing
Grade: 1
Topic: Developing and Organizing Content
Item number and statement: Organizing Ideas
1.5 identify and order main ideas and supporting details initially with support and direction,
using simple graphic organizers and simple organizational patterns.
 ENL/ELL App

Subject Area: To Learn the Language

App Title: Kids Learn Languages by Mondly
App Price: Free
Languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian,
Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Hebrew,
Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Greek,
Romanian, Afrikaans, Croatian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Hindi,
Indonesian, Thai

Rationale: This is a fun and free educational app to help a child learn a new language or for
ENL/ELL learners. The app uses flashcards for reading, writing, listening, and speaking
exercises, which help the learner to stimulate the imagination and bring out the creativity. The
app helps ENL/ELL learners to pick up new vocabulary, speak new phrases, and take part in
interactive conversations with native speakers. The app will help the student progress through at
a pace that is comfortable to them.

Standards:

ISTE Standards for Students:

5c. Students break problems into component parts, extract key information, and develop
descriptive models to understand complex systems or facilitate problem-solving.

ISTE Standards for Teacher:

6a: Foster a culture where students take ownership of their learning goals and outcomes in both
independent and group settings.

New York State P-12 Common Core Standards:

Standard Strand: Language Standards K-5
Grade: 1
Topic: Conventions of Standard English
Item number and statement:
1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when
writing or speaking:
c. Use common, proper, and possessive nouns.

Ontario Curriculum Expectations:

Standard Strand: Oral Communication
Grade: 1
Topic: Speaking to Communicate
Item number and statement: 2.4 Appropriate Language- choose appropriate words to
communicate their meaning accurately and engage the interest of their audience.
 SWD App

Subject Area: Augmentative and Alternative Communication

App Title: Proloquo2Go Symbol Based AAC
App Price: $349.99
Languages: English, French, Spanish

Rationale: Prologue2Go is a symbol-supported communication app. This app promotes

language development and communication skills. This app is mostly used by the students with
autism, down syndrome, cerebral palsy, and other diagnoses where the communication skill is
not developed. This app can be used on iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Apple Watch. It is one of
the few apps that support users from beginning to advanced level. Prologue2Go has many
accessible features for users with fine-motors and visual impairments with customized grammar
support for verbs, nouns, pronouns, and adjectives.

Standards:

ISTE Standards for Students:

6a. Students choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of
their creation or communication.

ISTE Standards for Teacher:

5a. Use technology to create, adapt and personalize learning experiences that foster independent
learning and accommodate learner differences and needs.

New York State P-12 Common Core Standards:

Standard Strand: Language Standards K-5
Grade: 1
Topic: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Item number and statement: With guidance and support from adults, demonstrate
understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
c. Identify real-life connections between words and their use

Ontario Curriculum Expectations:

Standard Strand: Oral Communication
Grade: 1
Topic: Speaking to Communicate
Item number and statement: Clarity and Coherence
2.3 communicate ideas and information orally in a clear, coherent manner