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App Title: Ready Set Learn Grade 3

App Price: FREE
Subject Area: ELA Reading
App Languages: English
Rational for Curriculum Use: This app was chosen for our grade 3 classroom because of its many
educational benefits. There are countless subject activities included, but our intended focus is
the reading comprehension practice. Students are able to complete short exercises geared to
reading comprehension, and track their progress of completion. Once level content is fully
accomplished students gain a virtual trophy within the app. This is an excellent positive reinforce
for student engagement.
ISTE Standards – For Teachers
Educators continually improve their practice by learning from and with others and exploring
proven and promising practices that leverage technology to improve student learning.
1a Set professional learning goals to explore and apply pedagogical approaches made possible by
technology and reflect on their effectiveness.
1b Pursue professional interests by creating and actively participating in local and global learning
networks
ISTE Standards – For Students
Empowered Learners

Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating
competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning sciences
(A) Articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging technology to
achieve and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes.
(C)Use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to
demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways

NY Standards
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.3.4
Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.3.4.A
Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.3.4.C
Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as
necessary.

Ontario Curriculum Expectations:

By the end of Grade 3, students will:
Comprehension Strategies
1.3 identify a variety of listening comprehension strategies and use them appropriately before,
during, and after listening in order to understand and clarify the meaning of oral texts (e.g., list
the important ideas in a poem or story read in class; ask questions to monitor understanding of
an oral text; visualize and sketch to clarify understanding of an oral text)
Demonstrating Understanding
1.4 demonstrate an understanding of the information and ideas in a variety of oral texts by
identifying important information or ideas and some supporting details (e.g., paraphrase a
partner’s reflections after a think-pair-share activity; paraphrase the important ideas in a play;
engage in relevant dialogue after an oral presentation; create a poster/art work representing the
important ideas in a poem or song)
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App Title: Read & Spell Third Grade
App Price: FREE
Subject Area: ENL
App Languages: English
Rational for Curriculum Use: This app is perfect for our ENL 3 graders. With its intense focus on
reading and spelling, students are able to increase and practice vocabulary for daily use. The app
covers over 100 vocabulary words from the Dolch Word list and includes activities such as: Fill in
the Blank, Sentence Reads, Word Guessing, Proofreading Practice, and Spelling. Depending on
the students’ academic level the app can be pre-set at easy, medium or hard. Perfect tool for
our English language learners.
ISTE Standards – For Teachers
Educators continually improve their practice by learning from and with others and exploring
proven and promising practices that leverage technology to improve student learning.
1a Set professional learning goals to explore and apply pedagogical approaches made possible by
technology and reflect on their effectiveness.
1b Pursue professional interests by creating and actively participating in local and global learning
networks
ISTE Standards – For Students
Empowered Learners
Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating
competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning sciences
(A) Articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging technology to
achieve and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes.
(C)Use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to
demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways
NY Standards

Phonics and Word Recognition:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.3.3
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.3.3.A
Identify and know the meaning of the most common prefixes and derivational suffixes.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.3.3. B
Decode words with common Latin suffixes.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.3.3.C
Decode multisyllable words.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.3.3. D
Read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.

Ontario Curriculum Expectations:

Reading with Fluency
By the end of Grade 3, students will:
Reading Familiar Words
3.1 automatically read and understand most high-frequency words, many regularly used words,
and words of personal interest or significance, in a variety of reading contexts (e.g., words from
grade level texts; terminology used regularly in discussions and posted on anchor charts; words
from shared-, guided-, and independent-reading texts, and some regularly used resource
materials in the curriculum subject areas)
Reading Unfamiliar Words
3.2 spell unfamiliar words using a variety of strategies that involve understanding sound-symbol
relationships, word structures, word meanings, and generalizations about spelling (e.g.,
pronounce a word as it is spelled: Wed-nes-day; make analogies to rhyming words; apply
knowledge of short-vowel and long-vowel patterns;
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App Title: Monster Math
App Price: FREE
Subject Area: Content Area – Math
App Languages: English
Rational for Curriculum Use: For our grade 3 students learning math, this app is fun with a
moderate pace. This educational app helps students enhance over 40 math skills, some include:
addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Monster Math allows users to shift between
difficulties to suit the student: basic to advance. In addition to the activities, the app design
keeps guardians and educators informed by providing an in-depth view of how the students are
progressing in math.

ISTE Standards – For Teachers

Educators continually improve their practice by learning from and with others and exploring
proven and promising practices that leverage technology to improve student learning.
1a Set professional learning goals to explore and apply pedagogical approaches made possible by
technology and reflect on their effectiveness.
1b Pursue professional interests by creating and actively participating in local and global learning
networks
ISTE Standards – For Students
Empowered Learners
Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating
competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning sciences
(A) Articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging technology to
achieve and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes.
(C)Use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to
demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways
NY Standards

Represent and solve problems involving multiplication and division.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.OA. A.1
Interpret products of whole numbers, e.g., interpret 5 × 7 as the total number of objects in 5
groups of 7 objects each. For example, describe a context in which a total number of objects can
be expressed as 5 × 7.

Represent and solve problems involving multiplication and division.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.OA. A.3
Use multiplication and division within 100 to solve word problems in situations involving equal
groups, arrays, and measurement quantities, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a
symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.1
Ontario Curriculum
Operational Sense
By the end of Grade 3, students will:
– solve problems involving the addition and subtraction of two-digit numbers, using a variety of
mental strategies (e.g., to add 37 + 26, add the tens, add the ones, then combine the tens and
ones, like this: 30 + 20 = 50, 7 + 6 = 13, 50 + 13 = 63); – add and subtract three-digit numbers,
using concrete materials, student generated algorithms, and standard algorithms

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App Title: Proloquo2Go
App Price: $189.00
Subject Area: Students with Disabilities
App Languages: English
Rational for Curriculum Use: This app is a great tool for supporting students with disabilities.
Proloquo2Go is an Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) app, which is used for
daily communication and language skill enhancing. Through picture symbols and graphics
students are able to communicate their needs and wants. Students with disabilities have the
opportunity to express themselves independent of another human being. In addition, the app
gives our students with exceptionalities the chance to be heard and feel included.

ISTE Standards – For Teachers

Educators continually improve their practice by learning from and with others and exploring
proven and promising practices that leverage technology to improve student learning.
1a Set professional learning goals to explore and apply pedagogical approaches made possible by
technology and reflect on their effectiveness.
1b Pursue professional interests by creating and actively participating in local and global learning
networks
ISTE Standards – For Students
Empowered Learners
Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating
competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning sciences
(A) Articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging technology to
achieve and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes.
(C)Use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to
demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways

NY Standards

Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.4
Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and
relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.5
Create engaging audio recordings of stories or poems that demonstrate fluid reading at an
understandable pace; add visual displays when appropriate to emphasize or enhance certain
facts or details.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.6
Speak in complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation to provide requested detail
or clarification. (See grade 3 Language standards 1 and 3 here for specific expectations.)
Ontario Curriculum
By the end of Grade 3, students will:
Purpose
2.1 identify a variety of purposes for speaking (e.g., to entertain an audience; to establish
positive personal and learning relationships with peers; to ask questions or explore solutions to
problems in small group and paired activities; to explain to

Interactive Strategies 2.2 demonstrate an understanding of appropriate speaking behaviour in a

variety of situations, including small and large-group discussions (e.g., paraphrase or restate
other group members’ contributions; acknowledge another person’s point of view; link their
responses to the topic of conversation and/or what was said by the previous speaker)

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App Title: Slice Fractions
App Price: $3.99
Subject Area: Math
App Languages: Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian,
Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese
Rationale Curriculum Use: This is an award-winning app. It is a problem-solving game that allows
students to learn how to solve fractions in a fun and engaging way. This app allows students to
learn math without even realizing they are learning. It is fun and interactive, and parents can
play too.
ISTE Standards- For Teachers:
Facilitator- Educators facilitate learning with technology to support student achievement of the
ISTE Standards for Students. Educators:
6c Create learning opportunities that challenge students to use a design
process and computational thinking to innovate and solve problems.
2a Shape, advance and accelerate a shared vision for empowered learning with technology
by engaging with education stakeholders.
ISTE Standards- For Students:

Computational Thinker- Students develop and employ strategies for understanding and solving
problems in ways that leverage the power of technological methods to develop and test
solutions.

5d Students understand how automation works and use algorithmic thinking to develop
a sequence of steps to create and test automated solutions.
NYS Common Core Standards:
2. Understand a fraction as a number on the number line; represent fractions on a number line
diagram. a. Represent a fraction 1/b on a number line diagram by defining the interval from 0 to
1 as the whole and partitioning it into b equal parts. Recognize that each part has size 1/b and
that the endpoint of the part based at 0 locates the number 1/b on the number line.
Ontario Curriculum:
Number Sense and Numeracy
By the end of Grade 3, students will:
Divide whole objects into parts and identify and describe, through investigation, equal-sized
parts of the whole, using fractional names (e.g., halves; fourths or quarters)

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App Title: Bobo Explores Light
App Price: $4.99
Subject Area: Science
App Language: English
Rationale for Curriculum Use: Award winning app that makes science fun. This app uses
fundamental scientific concepts for children and makes it fun with humour and whimsy. Over
100 pages of exciting, interactive content. May different topics like lasers, lightning and
bioluminescence. Hands on experiments and fully-functional gadgets. Friendly robot companion
Bobo helps students through the app. A lot of videos, articles, animation and trivia to keep kids
engaged and interested.
ISTE Standards- For Teachers:
Educators continually improve their practice by learning from and with others and exploring
proven and promising practices that leverage technology to improve student learning.
1a Set professional learning goals to explore and apply pedagogical approaches made possible by
technology and reflect on their effectiveness.
1b Pursue professional interests by creating and actively participating in local and global learning
networks
ISTE Standards- For Students:
Empowered Learners
Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating
competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning sciences
(A) Articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging technology to
achieve and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes.
(C)Use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to
demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways
NYS Common Core Standards:
Students should understand that energy exists in a variety of forms. Students should observe the
results of simple energy transformations from one form to another in their physical
environment. The safe use and respect of various energy forms should be stressed in the
classroom.
4.1d Energy and matter interact: water is evaporated by the Sun’s heat; a bulb is lighted by
means of electrical current; a musical instrument is played to produce sound; dark colors may
absorb light, light colors may reflect light.
Ontario Curriculum:
By the end of Grade 3:
3.1 describe the basic needs of plants, including air, water, light, warmth, and space
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App Name: Tools 4 Students
App Price: $0.99
Subject Area: ELA
App Languages: English, Spanish
Rationale for Curriculum Use: This app helps students become better writers. It provides tools
like graphic organizers to help with comprehension. Students organize main idea, details,
sequencing, compare and contract, cause/effect, characterization, plot etc. Students can reuse
these organizers, share them, project on board. This is also a great tool for teachers.
ISTE Standards- Teachers:
Educators continually improve their practice by learning from and with others and exploring
proven and promising practices that leverage technology to improve student learning.
1a Set professional learning goals to explore and apply pedagogical approaches made possible by
technology and reflect on their effectiveness.
1b Pursue professional interests by creating and actively participating in local and global learning
networks
ISTE Standards – For Students
Empowered Learners
Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating
competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning sciences
(A) Articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging technology to
achieve and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes.
(C)Use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to
demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways
NYS Common Core Standards:
Writing Standards
3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique,
descriptive details, and clear event sequences
a. Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters; organize an event
sequence that unfolds naturally.
Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
4. Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and
relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace.

Ontario Curriculum Expectations:

By the end of Grade 3, students will:
Comprehension Strategies
1.3 identify a variety of listening comprehension strategies and use them appropriately before,
during, and after listening to understand and clarify the meaning of oral texts (e.g., list the
important ideas in a poem or story read in class; ask questions to monitor understanding of an
oral text; visualize and sketch to clarify understanding of an oral text)
Demonstrating Understanding
1.4 demonstrate an understanding of the information and ideas in a variety of oral texts by
identifying important information or ideas and some supporting details (e.g., paraphrase a
partner’s reflections after a think-pair-share activity; paraphrase the important ideas in a play;
engage in relevant dialogue after an oral presentation; create a poster/art work representing the
important ideas in a poem or song)

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App Title: Math Doodles
App Price: $2.99
Subject Area: Math
App Languages: English
Rationale for Curriculum Use: This app is a great puzzle game that incorporates math. This app
includes many mathematical concepts like number and operations, number sense, addition,
subtraction, angles, rotation, time, money, problem solving etc. A fun way to learn math.
ISTE Standards – For Teachers
Educators continually improve their practice by learning from and with others and exploring
proven and promising practices that leverage technology to improve student learning.
1a Set professional learning goals to explore and apply pedagogical approaches made possible by
technology and reflect on their effectiveness.
1b Pursue professional interests by creating and actively participating in local and global learning
networks
ISTE Standards – For Students
Empowered Learners
Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating
competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning sciences
(A) Articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging technology to
achieve and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes.
(C)Use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to
demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways
NYS Common Core:

Represent and solve problems involving multiplication and division.

3.OA.A.1 Interpret products of whole numbers, e.g., interpret 5 × 7 as the total number of
objects in 5 groups of 7 objects each. For example, describe a context in which a total number of
objects can be expressed as 5 × 7.

Represent and solve problems involving multiplication and division.

3.OA.A.3 Use multiplication and division within 100 to solve word problems in situations
involving equal groups, arrays, and measurement quantities, e.g., by using drawings and
equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.1
Ontario Curriculum:
By the end of Grade 3, students will:
- solve problems involving the addition and subtraction of single- and multi-digit whole
numbers, using a variety of strategies, and demonstrate an understanding of
multiplication and division.
- compare, describe, and order objects, using attributes measured in standard units.
- describe relationships between two-dimensional shapes, and between two-dimensional
shapes and three-dimensional figures;
- identify and describe the locations and movements of shapes and objects.