READING APPS
EPIC! allows students to instantly Access 25,000 of the Best Books and Videos for Kids. Epic! is Free for Elementary School Teachers and Librarians!
NEWSELA provides you with unlimited access to hundreds of leveled news articles and Common Core–aligned quizzes, with new articles every day.
The ACCELERATED READER app allows students to take Accelerated Reader tests for books they've read.
CLASSROOM ORGANIZER is an excellent tool for anyone who wants to keep track of all the books in the classroom library. This tool keeps track of books that students have checked out and when they are returned. It also allows students to rate and give a summary of the book after they have checked the book in. All of this is done at the scan of a barcode!
NEWS-O-MATIC is an incredible, interactive, daily newspaper written just for kids! Everyday, it has five articles that are written by children's authors.
IBOOKS gives students the opportunity to read millions of books on their iPads. Most of the recent titles must be purchased, but there are still many books that are free from the iTunes store.
PHONICS GENIUS is a great tool when teaching phonemic awareness.
READERS WORKSHOP BY DREW ROSENBERG is a great app for reading conferences with students. It allows you to keep up with the students' progress by recording the students' reading and charting the students' growth in analyzing, connecting, critiquing, inferring, and predicting.
THE POETRY APP is exactly what it says. It is an app that allows you to explore poems from a wealth of well-known poets.