Reading & Writing apps

Phonics Apps

Oz Phonics app series is Australian made, and designed to build students' literacy skills with a series of step-by-step exercises. It caters for beginning readers and students from non-English speaking backgrounds and is designed to be used by teachers, parents/carers and speech pathologists. In addition to iPad apps, they provide free lesson plans and printable worksheets on their website: http://ozphonics.com/OzPhonics-Free-Download.html

Oz Phonics Intro - Introduces 15 letter/sound relationships. Short vowel sounds /a/, /e/, /i/, /o/, /u/ and 10 consonant sounds for letters c, d, g, h, l, m, n, r, s, t.
Oz Phonics 1 - Phonemic Awareness and Letter Sounds
Oz Phonics 2 - CVC, CCVC words, consonant blends, sentences
Oz Phonics 3 - Consonant Blends, CVCC Words, Digraphs, Spelling
Oz Phonics 4 - Long Vowel Spellings and R-Controlled Vowels.

Writing and Speaking Prompts

Write About This (NZ version)

30 paid apps
installed iPads Years 2-6

Teacher-designed app that makes writing super engaging and fun for students. Each image has three different prompts associated with it and students can adjust the level of difficulty in the "settings" section, making differentiation a breeze. Prompts are available in both text and audio format to accommodate students who are emerging readers or those with special needs.

Authoring and Storytelling Apps

Book Creator Stage 1-3 iPads

The simple user interface helps to engage kids in storytelling as they create ebooks and comic strips using their own photos, drawings, audio (including their own voice), video, and text. Versatile enough to be used in any content area, and students can extend their creativity by creating images with other apps to use in their books.

Pixie App

Pixie is the award winning authoring tool students can use to share ideas, imagination, and understanding through a combination of text, original artwork, voice narration, and images. Students can use Pixie’s paint tools, text options, clip art, and voice recording to develop storybooks, curriculum projects, videos, and so much more.

Perfect Captions Stage 1-3 iPads

Perfect Captions is a great way to incorporate technology in your classroom in an engaging way. Students can add captions to demonstrate their understanding of what a fiction character or historical figure might be thinking. They can use a picture found on the Internet, saved on a student’s iPad or taken with their iPad camera.

Pic Collage Stage 1-3 iPads

Students can use Pic Collage to tell a story via images and text. Students can use this app to design and add collage concepts for eBooks. Great for making Infographs.

Puppet Pals

Pick actors and backgrounds, drag them onto the stage then add some sound to create your own animation. Engage students by allowing them to act out historical events, practice language skills, or deliver a creative book report.

Sentence Creator

Story Starter - Ideas for Writing

Special Needs Apps to help students needing additional support

SnapType Stage 1-3 iPads

An app for Occupational Therapy – A Tool for Dysgraphic Students that helps students who have difficulty writing. Students can take pictures of their worksheets in class and use the iPad keyboard to type in answers.

LetterReflex VPP

LetterReflex VPP - Overcoming Letter Reversals & Backwards

(We have purchased one copy of this app for use in Kindergarten but can be loaded on up to 5 iPads).

Writing in Early Childhood Development & Dyslexic Children.

Spell Better - Literacy Support for Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, and Low Vision

$14.99 ea. (1-19 units)$7.49 ea. (20+ units)

“Spell Better” is a word processing app with predictable text functions. As students type the words, plausible alternatives appear at the bottom of the screen to both correct the spelling and to complete the word without typing. Speech functions are also available. Typing and word prediction both come with audio support, letting you hear words and sentences as they are written out, or even before selecting them. The word prediction and advanced spell checking features have been trained to specifically spot and correct the types of errors that students with dyslexia and dysgraphia tend to make.

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