Name of App
Site the App is found
Utility
Ease of use
Strengths
Weaknesses
Leveled Readers
Penguin Group USA (PEARSON PLC)
Free App, useful for younger students (leveled reading books)
Easy to use
This app has nice color pictures and looks like a real book! There is a button at the top of each page to highlight the words, so that the student can identify all of the words that need to be read
This app is free and only has 4 leveled readers (if purchased there are many more books to choose from at all levels!)
Wordphy
Sonia Luceno Montero
Free App, useful for sounding out, and making words.
Hard to use for 2nd graders and younger.
Allows no time limit for students to make words using the letters in the bubbles.
10 or more letters are in the bubbles, and this may be overwhelming for some students.
Rhyming Bee
Abitalk Incorporated
Free app, useful for phonics sorting, rhyming words and sounds.
Easy to use
Gives a few different choices for word families.
Can only be used a few times by the same student, unless the rest of the app is purchased, otherwise it gets redundant with the same word families.
Scribble my Story
Fingerprint Digital, INC.
Free app, Students can imagine and create their own story, or make up a story using the app’s pictures.
Easy to use
Allows students to create their own story and write or type their own story, also has different pictures to aid in starting their own story.
Limited amounts of pictures, but does allow students to draw on their own.
Phonics Word Families
Abitalk Incorporated
Free app, Students are able to see word phonics spelling, beginning sounds, word families, and short vowel sound activities.
Easy to use
Allows students to interactively spell, read, and listen to words and various sounds.
Limited app (free), but if you purchase you will be able to use more of the app.
ADJ & Opposites
Avocado Mobile INC Games
Free app, students are able to spell and learn adjectives and opposites
Easy to use
Can be used in many different languages! Allows students to see the spelling happening at their fingertips
Only 10 languages in the free version!
Site the App is found
Utility
Ease of use
Strengths
Weaknesses
Leveled Readers
Penguin Group USA (PEARSON PLC)
Free App, useful for younger students (leveled reading books)
Easy to use
This app has nice color pictures and looks like a real book! There is a button at the top of each page to highlight the words, so that the student can identify all of the words that need to be read
This app is free and only has 4 leveled readers (if purchased there are many more books to choose from at all levels!)
Wordphy
Sonia Luceno Montero
Free App, useful for sounding out, and making words.
Hard to use for 2nd graders and younger.
Allows no time limit for students to make words using the letters in the bubbles.
10 or more letters are in the bubbles, and this may be overwhelming for some students.
Rhyming Bee
Abitalk Incorporated
Free app, useful for phonics sorting, rhyming words and sounds.
Easy to use
Gives a few different choices for word families.
Can only be used a few times by the same student, unless the rest of the app is purchased, otherwise it gets redundant with the same word families.
Scribble my Story
Fingerprint Digital, INC.
Free app, Students can imagine and create their own story, or make up a story using the app’s pictures.
Easy to use
Allows students to create their own story and write or type their own story, also has different pictures to aid in starting their own story.
Limited amounts of pictures, but does allow students to draw on their own.
Phonics Word Families
Abitalk Incorporated
Free app, Students are able to see word phonics spelling, beginning sounds, word families, and short vowel sound activities.
Easy to use
Allows students to interactively spell, read, and listen to words and various sounds.
Limited app (free), but if you purchase you will be able to use more of the app.
ADJ & Opposites
Avocado Mobile INC Games
Free app, students are able to spell and learn adjectives and opposites
Easy to use
Can be used in many different languages! Allows students to see the spelling happening at their fingertips
Only 10 languages in the free version!