Nicole Barry

Theres An App for That Assignment

1.)

App Title: Super Why! Power to Read

App Price: $0.99
Subject Area: ELA Reading App
Rationale for Curriculum Use: This app includes games designed to allow children to practice
one of five key literacy skills. Through interactive adventures children will learn letter
identification, letter sounds, rhyming, writing, and reading comprehension, and the critical skills
that they need to learn to read.
New York State P-12 Common Core/NYS Standard:
Standard Strand: Reading: Foundational Skills
Grade: 2
Topic: Phonics and Word Recognition
Item number and statement: 3. Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in
decoding words. F.) Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
ISTE Standards for Students
6d. Technology Operations & Concepts: Transfer current knowledge to learning new
technologies
ISTE Standards for Teacher
2a. Design & Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences & Assessments: Design or adapt
relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student
learning and creativity.
2.)

App Title: Ollies Handwriting & Phonics

App Price: Free
Subject Area: Handwriting (Choice Area App #1)
Rationale for Curriculum Use: This app helps kids become successful writers with errorless
teaching. Children practice letters and sounds, read custom phonics words, and spell sight words
without reinforcing bad habits. This app also helps children improve fine motor and handwriting
skills as well as introduce, reinforce, and solidify letter and sounds recognition.
New York State P-12 Common Core/NYS Standard:
Standard Strand: Writing
Grade: 2
Topic: Production and Distribution of Writing
Item number and statement: 6. With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital
tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.
ISTE Standards for Students
6d. Technology Operations & Concepts: Transfer current knowledge to learning new
technologies
ISTE Standards for Teacher
2a. Design & Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences & Assessments: Design or adapt
relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student
learning and creativity.
3.)

App Title: Kid in Story Book Maker

App Price: Free
Subject Area: ELA Writing App
Rationale for Curriculum Use: This app allows children to create and share customized picture
storybooks with photos of themselves or others as the main characters. It is easy and fun for
children to create visual stories to support learning social modeling, and early literacy strategies.
New York State P-12 Common Core/NYS Standard:
Standard Strand: Writing
Grade: 2
Topic: Text Types and Purposes
Item number and statement: 3. Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or
short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal
words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.
ISTE Standards for Students
6d. Technology Operations & Concepts: Transfer current knowledge to learning new
technologies
ISTE Standards for Teacher
2a. Design & Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences & Assessments: Design or adapt
relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student
learning and creativity.
4.)

App Title: Fun English

App Price: Free
Subject Area: ENL/ELL App
Rationale for Curriculum Use: This app combines a structured English language course with
engaging and entertaining games. Each English lesson teaches core vocabulary and presents
words in several contexts to assist learning and retention. Children will learn to listen, speak,
read, spell and sing in English.
New York State P-12 Common Core/NYS Standard:
ESL Standard 1: Students will listen, speak, read and write in English for information and
understanding.
Grade: 2
ISTE Standards for Students
6d. Technology Operations & Concepts: Transfer current knowledge to learning new
technologies
ISTE Standards for Teacher
2a. Design & Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences & Assessments: Design or adapt
relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student
learning and creativity.
5.)

App Title: Model Me Going Places

App Price: Free
Subject Area: SWD App
Rationale for Curriculum Use: This app is a great visual teaching tool for helping children who
struggle in social situations learn to navigate challenging locations in the community. Each
location contains a photo slideshow of children modeling appropriate behavior. This is
essentially a social skills training app for children and teenagers with Autism and Asperger
Syndrome.
New York State P-12 Common Core/NYS Standard:
Standard Strand: Speaking and Listening
Grade: 2
Topic: Comprehension and Collaboration
Item number and statement: 3. Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to
clarify comprehension, gather additional information, or deepen understanding of a topic or
issue.
ISTE Standards for Students
6d. Technology Operations & Concepts: Transfer current knowledge to learning new
technologies
ISTE Standards for Teacher
2a. Design & Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences & Assessments: Design or adapt
relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student
learning and creativity.
6.)

App Title: Grammar Dragon

App Price: $0.99
Subject Area: Grammar App (Choice Area App #2)
Rationale for Curriculum Use: This app is a learning game where the player uses parts of speech
to develop cognitive reading and verbal skills. The game engages children in a hands-on learning
process, implementing kinesthetic learning. Essentially the child must rescue their friends from
the dragon by correctly identifying various parts of speech.
New York State P-12 Common Core/NYS Standard:
Standard Strand: Language
Grade: 2
Topic: Conventions of Standard English
Item number and statement: 1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English
grammar and usage when writing or speaking. D. Form and use the past tense of frequently
occurring irregular verbs (e.g., sat, hid, told).
ISTE Standards for Students
6d. Technology Operations & Concepts: Transfer current knowledge to learning new
technologies
ISTE Standards for Teacher
2a. Design & Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences & Assessments: Design or adapt
relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student
learning and creativity.
7.)

App Title: Komodo

App Price: Free
Subject Area: Math (Content Area App #1)
Rationale for Curriculum Use: This app has adaptive technology that tailors the learning
experience to the needs of each child, and adjusts as they go along. The focus of this app is on
mastering arithmetic and mental math/maths because this is the key platform for future success
in mathematics.
New York State P-12 Common Core/NYS Standard:
Domain: Operations & Algebraic Thinking
Grade: 2
Cluster Heading: Add and subtract within 20.
Item number and statement: 2. Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies. By
end of Grade 2, know from memory all sus of two one-digit numbers.
ISTE Standards for Students
6d. Technology Operations & Concepts: Transfer current knowledge to learning new
technologies
ISTE Standards for Teacher
2a. Design & Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences & Assessments: Design or adapt
relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student
learning and creativity.
8.)

App Title: Homes by Tinybop

App Price: $2.99
Subject Area: Social Studies App (Content Area App #2)
Rationale for Curriculum Use: This app allows children to travel to faraway places and visit
communities around the world. They are able to make meals, decorate, clean up their
community, etc. They are able to experience different cultures, and involve themselves in
multiple communities with the click of a button.
New York State P-12 Common Core/NYS Standard:
Key Idea 2.4: Communities have rules and laws that affect how they function. Citizens
contribute to a communitys government through leadership and service.
Grade: 2
Conceptual Understanding 2.4c: Citizens provide service to their community in a variety of
ways.
Content Specifications: Students will explore opportunities to provide services to their school
community and the community at large (e.g. beautifying school grounds, writing thank-you notes
to helpers.)
ISTE Standards for Students
6d. Technology Operations & Concepts: Transfer current knowledge to learning new
technologies
ISTE Standards for Teacher
2a. Design & Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences & Assessments: Design or adapt
relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student
learning and creativity.