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Here is a comprehensive list of later elementary school 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 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 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 iPad. Requires iOS 7.0 or later.
AppWriter is comprised of text-to-speech software, context based word suggestions, and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology to help with reading and writing.
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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, 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 6.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app includes nearly 2 million easily accessible words. You can view definitions and synonyms with dictionary.com and thesaurus.com, with no internet connection required.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.0 or later.
Dragon Dictation is a voice recognition app that allows the user to see the text generated through speaking instead of typing. It can be used with popular social networking applications.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This is an app that wants to satisfy all of your electronic display needs. You can use it to create your own special electronic displays, including cultivating your child’s imagination as a toy or picture board.
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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 iPad. Requires iOS 5.1 or later.
This app is an easy-to-use interactive whiteboard tool that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere.
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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 iPad. Requires iOS 5.1 or later.
This app is a great brainstorming tool. It helps you visually organize ideas quickly and easily and allows you to share them with others.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 7.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Idea Sketch lets you easily draw a diagram (mind map, concept map, or flow chart), convert it to a text outline, and vice versa. It can be used to brainstorm new ideas, illustrate concepts, make lists and outlines, plan presentations, create organizational charts, and more.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 6.0 or later.
Developed by CAST, MathScaled contains several balance-scale based math puzzles. Users have to place different shapes on the scales to balance them out, without knowing the weights of the shapes. The app can also track your progress.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 6.0 or later.
Developed by CAST, MathSquared contains several grid-based math puzzles of varying difficulty to help teach basic math operations. Users can develop their logical thinking and reasoning skills and receive progress reports along the way.
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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 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, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
Jumbline is a word puzzle that challenges your speed, agility, pattern recognition, and spelling prowess as you try and find all the possible words within a set of letters. It includes a built-in dictionary.
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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 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 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, 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 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 iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 7.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Prizmo can read scanned documents to you; simply take a picture of the document with your phone, and Prizmo will read it aloud. You can also share the documents between devices or through cloud computing.
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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 iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.1.3 or later.
Read 2 Me lets you import .txt files and uses text-to-speech to read them aloud to you. You can easily bookmark important material, and there are many additional features for easy reading.
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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 iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.0 or later.
Read2Go uses text-to-speech to help you read and comprehend books. With a Bookshare membership, you can browse, download, and read books, and you can customize reading speed, font, font size, and more.
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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 iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
Reading Trainer will help you improve your reading speed and mental capacity with fun exercises. The app uses multiple reading techniques, and you can easily record and track your progress.
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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.
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 iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app builds on Simplex Spelling Phonics 1, adding 650 more words in 54 different lists. Phonics 2 focuses on syllables and more difficult words.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. Similar app compatible with Android devices 3.1 and up.
This app is an electronic white board that allows you to write drafts, show models, write, draw pictures, demonstrate your thoughts in meetings, and many other useful things!
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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 iPad. Requires iOS 7.0 or later.
This powerful app can not only help improve spelling, but it has word prediction and auto-completion features, text-to-speech with word highlighting, a built-in dictionary, 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.
This app is a fun way to create spelling lists and spelling bees, It’s perfect for learning SAT words, managing your kid’s weekly words list, or mastering words that give you trouble.
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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 contains over 13,000 words at 10 different difficulty levels and works just like the spelling bee! There are also options to practice spelling or take spelling tests before taking the challenge.
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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 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, 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 iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Talk to Me speaks words as you type them, and the words appear on every screen, no matter what you’re doing! There are many customizable features, including size of text and speed of reading.
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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, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.1 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app uses word prediction and has a sophisticated spelling error model to help you focus on the content of your writing. Typ-O is able to identify the most common spelling mistakes and will often suggest words.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
This app helps you learn multiplication visually by displaying graphically rich multiplication tables.
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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 text-to-speech app imports content from various sources and reads it aloud (web pages, PDF files, Word documents, PowerPoints, and more). It integrates with Dropbox, Instapaper, and Pocket.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Web Reader uses text-to-speech to read web pages, blogs, and other online content aloud.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Word Dynamo combines with Dictionary.com’s entire word library to help students master word learning. It includes different learning modes, such as audio, flashcards, and definition matching.
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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, 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.
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Compatible with Android devices 2.1 and up.
This app can help you build communication skills. It can teach you new words, how the words are properly used in context, and it can pronounce the words for you. There is even a fun, challenging game included.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
Writing Prompts helps make writing more fun. It provides a variety of scene elements, words, sketches, colors, genres, and writing types, allowing you to make your writing more imaginative.