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Here is a comprehensive list of early elementary apps thanks to the University of Michigan:
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.1 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app is a fun puzzle game that asks you to guess a word based on the pictures you see.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app allows independent discovery of an unknown spelling or a quick check on an uncertain word.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
A1 Spelling App teaches kids to spell by letting them hear words aloud and by utilizing repetition to help them remember. Words are accompanied by kid-friendly pictures.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 3.1.3 or later.
ABC Magic Phonics teaches pronunciation of letters instead of letter names. This helps kids learn letter sounds and combinations, which can make them better readers. The app uses rhythm and repetition to help with memorization.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 3.2 or later.
This app focuses on the word families that make reading and word identification easier for young children. It aims to improve reading skills.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 6.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This phonics based application combines letter sounds, letter writing, and 170 first words to help teach reading.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 3.2 or later.
ACT Spell allows you to create your own word base of spelling words while keeping the spelling process simple.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Alpha Writer helps you learn to read, write, and spell phonetically. Learn language basics, build skills to help you write your own story, and share your story via email when you’re done.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requiere iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. Also compatible with Android devices.
This app helps you learn the sounds and shapes of letters with multisensory games. It is a great app for phonemic awareness and shape recognition.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
American Wordspeller is an app that allows you to find words that you may not know how to spell, but can sound out phonetically.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Designed by a speech-language pathologist, Articulate It! has over 1,000 different images covering all sounds of the English language to help children improve their speech.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Created by a speech-language pathologist, Articulation Station Pro contains 22 different sound programs targeting over 1,000 words for pronunciation. In addition, the app has several activities to practice.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app has flashcard and matching activities for individuals with speech-sound delays.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
AudioBooks allows you to listen to books. Some features include high-quality human recordings and access to all types of reading material.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
Bats in the Cave is the second app in a series of apps that helps teachers, parents, and students grasp the importance of phonemic awareness and phonics.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.2 or later.
This app allows kids to match words that share the same beginning sound. Targets kids ages 4-7.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Blio makes e-reading easy with text-to-speech, highlighting words as you read, looking up unknown words or phrases, and being visually friendly to suit your needs.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
Readers of all levels and ages are given specially selected literature to read with this app. The more users read, the more books they are able to unlock!
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app allows you to link letters left, right, up, and down to build words in a game format. Bigger words return better bonuses.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
This app allows you to keep track of and remember chores.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
Learn basic addition and subtraction in a fun easy way with this app. You can change the difficulty level as you progress.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
Learn how to recognize, count, add, and make change with U.S. coins.
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Compatible with Android devices 1.5 and up.
Cool Reader is an eBook reader that supports multiple eBook formats. The app has a text-to-speech function and other customizable features.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
This app provides a set of therapeutic hand exercises to improve fine motor skills and handwriting readiness in children and adults.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Dr. Seuss Bookshelf allows you to find all the Dr. Seuss book apps for your reading pleasure. Read them on your own, or have the book apps read them aloud to you with their text-to-speech features.
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Requires iOS 3.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.
The Yeti Master will explain the signs of dyslexia as the user climbs the mountain and plays the yeti games. Each game tests working memory, phonological awareness, processing speed, and visual and auditory memory.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app teaches about letters, how letters relate to sounds, and how to spell words.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
Flashcards for iPad is a great app for young children just learning basic words or kids learning a second language. Pictures and sounds accompany each word, making it easy for kids to learn both the spelling and sound!
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Compatible with Android devices 2.0 and up.
Go Read is a part of Bookshare, where you can access one of the largest online libraries. This app also has text-to-speech capabilities and is especially made for people with reading impairments.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 7.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
With over 150,000 words, Howjsay is the world’s largest English pronunciation dictionary. It uses a real human voice for audio pronunciation and keeps track of your word lookup history.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
iSpeech is an excellent tool for teaching and practicing speech therapy at home. It organizes sounds by the ages at which they should have developed, providing benchmarks for where children should be developmentally.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 3.2 or later.
iSpell Word is an app designed to help kids learn simple English words. The app is in a game format, making it fun and interactive.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
iSpellBetter is a fun game with increasingly challenging levels and adjustable difficulty modes to help with spelling.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
iWordQ helps struggling readers and writers through text-to-speech capabilities, text highlighting, and much more.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Using a structured game format, iWriteWords teaches handwriting skills.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
This interactive storybook is one of many from Backseat Driver, LLC. Aside from giving children the option to read the story themselves or to hear it read aloud to them, the app contains hidden elements for kids to find, animations within the pages, text highlighting, and much more.
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Requires iOS 3.1.2 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.
This app includes four different games for different stages of learning that include flashcards, identification, matching, and handwriting.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 3.2 or later.
This app provides a fun way to overcome common letter reversals such as b’s and d’s. The app’s activities teach left from right and allows users to practice what they learned by practicing their letter discrimination skills.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 6.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. Also compatible with Android devices.
This app aims to help kids learn all about letters and numbers including writing, counting, phonics and more. The app helps kids learn a letter’s name, its sound, as well as words to go with it.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app is a simple took developed for early learners and kids with learning difficulties to master reading an analog clock.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
This is a fun and educational app that teaches young children to correctly draw and form their letters. This game is ideal for developing fine motor skills.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app provides visual math fundamentals for kids learning math with a learning disorder. The app benefits every child in helping them to grasp the fundamentals of math.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
Little Bats is the first app in a series of phonics apps, aimed at parents to help their kids, or used independently by children. The app is designed to teach phonics in a game format.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This multi-person app allows up to 50 students to practice simple mathematical functions. Each student’s questions are customized to his/her strengths and weaknesses, and progress reports are available.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.1 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
MeeGenius! contains a vast library of kids’ books, all of which are narrated by a human voice. The words are highlighted as they are read.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.1 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. Also compatible with Android devices 2.3 and up and web browsers on desktops and laptops.
This cloud-based tool lets students create mind maps to structure their thoughts, prepare reports, summarize books, study for exams, and much more. It’s simple and intuitive, offers many export options (Word, PDF, PowerPoint etc.), and features a built-in presentation mode.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.1 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Montessori Crosswords can help you develop reading, writing, and spelling skills. Build words from a set of 320 word-image-audio-phonics combinations using a phonics-enabled movable alphabet.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
This app can help you master simple mathematical functions — addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. It can also be customized to focus on a particular fact, such as multiplication by 1 or 0.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
This app is an interactive book that allows kids to play with Humpty Dumpty, Jack and Jill, Three Blind Mice, and other classic nursery rhyme characters.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Park Math provides kids with a fun way to learn math. Learn to count, add, subtract, sort, and more, all while playing at the virtual park.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
Phonics Genius is an easy way for children to learn to recognize, read, and speak words through letter sounds. The app contains over 6,000 words, grouped by phonics, in addition to the fun games for practice.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app is a fun, effective phonics recognition game that provides a complete picture of the phonograms needed to read and spell.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Pocket Artic contains over 2,100 flashcards that target by phoneme and by position of occurrence.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. Also compatible with Android devices 2.2 and up.
The classic tale of a mischievous rabbit’s adventure through a grumpy farmer’s field is now at your fingertips. This ebook includes objects that literally pop out of the page, as well as a “read to me” feature with word highlighting to improve reading skills.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
This app is designed for elementary aged children. Through sentence building activities, it explains how to correctly use prepositions and how they can change the meaning of a sentence.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
This interactive storybook is one of many from Backseat Driver, LLC. Aside from giving children the option to read the story themselves or to hear it read aloud to them, the app contains hidden elements for kids to find, animations within the pages, text highlighting, and much more.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
Rainbow Math is the perfect app for elementary children to learn the four basic functions of math—addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. The app is designed with fun images and colors to keep kids interested.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.2 or later.
Through lessons and easy tracing games, Read&Write helps you learn phonics, read, write, and pronounce different letters and letter combinations.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
This app takes a unique approach to teaching reading comprehension. Based on the idea of paper bookmarks, each booster encourages the child to record responses, while they are reading, based on a specific reading focus.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 3.1.2 or later.
This app teaches grade appropriate Dolch words (the 220 words that appear most frequently in reading) by showing each word, speaking it aloud, and tracking your progress.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.1 or later.
Sentence Builder can help you learn how to build grammatically correct sentences. It includes 100 distinct pictures to build sentences around.
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Compatible with web browsers on desktops, laptops, and iPad.
Shape Math uses pictures and shapes to help you do simple mathematic equations, calculate tips at a restaurant, or do mental math.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app helps children master basic sight words so they can build a solid foundation in spelling. The app focuses on word recognition rather than word memorization.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Simplex Spelling Phonics 1 contains 450 words divided into 42 different lists based on patterns and difficulty. Each list builds on the previous one to ensure that students learn the words.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
Sound Literacy is an instructional tool and resource for teaching phonemic awareness, phonological processing, the alphabetic principle, and morphemic awareness.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 3.2 or later.
This 3D app helps individuals practice every sound in the English language with detailed animations that demonstrate the correct positioning of the tongue, lips, and mouth.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app allows you to type in a word phonetically (based on how it sounds) and it will come up with the actual spelling of the word. It also provides definitions to help you understand the meaning of the word.
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Compatible with Android devices 2.3.3 and up.
This app teaches you how to spell thousands of words with clear audio clips and increasing difficulty.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. Also compatible with Android devices 2.2 and up.
This app makes learning spelling and vocabulary words fun by having users play engaging games using any word list.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 6.0 or later.
These apps are grade-specific, making it easy for students to practice math skills for grades 1-5. All content is aligned to the common core standards.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. Also compatible with Android devices 2.2 and up.
Zac the Rat helps your child hear, touch, read, and eventually master letter and sound relationships through a variety of engaging activities, movies, and songs.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
Stories2Learn allows you to create personalized stories using photos, text, and audio that can help improve literacy as well as social skills.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Recorded by children, Storytime is an interactive storytelling app. Each story has original graphics and voice, and also includes a game to help with reading comprehension.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
Story Builder is designed to help you improve paragraph formation, integration of ideas, and higher level language such as inferences. The app aims to improve auditory processing by using audio clips.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
Create your very own electronic storybook with this fun app. Simply write some text, illustrate by drawing on the screen or upload photographs from existing albums, record sounds into your story, and lay out all the elements.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.1 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app will help your child achieve the Power to Read as they play these interactive reading games along with superheroes.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.1 or later.
Writing Machine shows how one picture and one word go together, how to read text from left to right, and how to tell words from letters.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
This interactive storybook is one of many from Backseat Driver, LLC. Aside from giving children the option to read the story themselves or to hear it read aloud to them, the app contains hidden elements for kids to find, animations within the pages, text highlighting, and much more.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.1 or later.
Toontastic allows kids to draw, animate, and share their own custom cartoons. Just hit “Record” and tell a story while making the characters and other cartoon assets move. When finished, share the cartoon on ToonTube.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This fun app teaches basic sight words and enhances spelling skills.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
Word Fall is a fun way to practice spelling. As the words rain down from the sky, you have to spell as many as you can. The app has a dictionary and awards bonus points for longer words, helping kids increase their vocabulary.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.1 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This word play app gives clues to help you complete a word ladder puzzle.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
This app teaches words and spelling. You are able to set initial, medial, or final position in words.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.0 or later.
WordSort is a fun game for learning and understanding the parts of speech. There are three levels of the game as well as different difficulty settings for every learner.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.1 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Word Wizard combines text-to-speech capabilities with spelling tasks to allow kids to hear each word and letter while spelling it. The app contains over 1,400 words but allows you to add more and create your own spelling list.