App Title: iWriteWords App Price: $2.

99 Subject Area: ELA Languages: English, French, Italian Rationale: I Write Words app teaches/ practices handwriting while playing an entertaining and engaging game. Standards: New York State P-12 Common Core Standards Standard Strand: 3 Grade: Kindergarten Topic: Writing Item Number and Statement: 5. With guidance and support from adults, explore a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers. New York State Learning Standards Standard: 3 critical analysis and evaluation Performance Indicator: Draw and/or write to express opinions and judgments to share what they have learned about a topic

App Title: StoryBuilder App Price: $7. 99 Subject Area: ELA Languages: English, French Rationale: StoryBuilder can improve auditory processing for children with autism or sensory processing disorders. Improve paragraph formation 2) Improve integration of ideas 3) Improve higher-level abstractions by inference. Extensive use of audio clips promotes improved auditory processing for special needs children with autism spectrum disorders or sensory processing disorders. Standards New York State P-12 Common Core Standards Standard Strand: 1 Grade: 5th Grade Topic: Writing Item Number and Statement: 1. Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information. a. Introduce a topic or text clearly, state an opinion, and create an organized structure n which ideas are logically grouped to support the writers purpose. New York State Learning Standards

Standard: Standard 2- Language for Literary Response and Expression Performance Indicator: 1.2Create their own stories, poems, and songs using the elements of the literature they have read and appropriate vocabulary

App Title: AutismXpress App Price: Free Subject Area: Languages: English Rationale: It is designed to encourage individuals with autism to recognizes and express their emotions through this fun and easy to use interface. This App helps individuals with autism to be able to interact with others easier and feel that they are not different than the other students This could be very helpful with any student too who does not know how to express their emotions and wants to tell you something. Standards: New York State P-12 Common Core Standards Standard Strand: 1 Grade: Kindergarten Topic: Speaking and Listening Item Number and Statement: 6. Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly. New York State Learning Standards Standard: 2 Performance Indicator: 2.1 Reading with expression and expressing ones thoughts

App Title: Kids Vocab App Price: $1.99 Subject Area: Languages: English, French, Italian, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, and Vietnamese Rationale: Introduces students to Tier 3, low frequency and context-specific vocabulary words. Each set of words is organized around a theme and built on games that keep children excited about learning. With supports and positive reinforcement, students who struggle won't feel defeated, since words are repeated as they work toward mastery. Standards: New York State P-12 Common Core Standards Standard Strand: Grade: 3 Topic: Writing Item Number and Statement: 1.a Explain the function of noun, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences. New York State Learning Standards Standard: 2 Performance Indicator: 2.0 Spell frequently used words correctly

App Title: BareFoot World Atlas App Price: $4. 99 Subject Area: Social Studies Languages: English, Catalan, French, German, Japanese, Spanish Rationale: Barefoot World Atlas is an interactive 3D globe that invites children to explore the regions and countries of the world, that features information about our world. This app allows students to explore the world, meet new people, animals, landmarks and famous buildings. Standards: New York State P-12 Common Core Standards Standard Strand: Speaking and Listening for K-5 Grade: 2 Topic: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas Item Number and Statement: 4. Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly. New York State Learning Standards: Standard: 1 : Explore different experiences, beliefs, motives, and traditions of people living in their neighborhoods, communities and state. Performance Indicator:

1A: Students study how people live, work, and utilize natural resources.

App Title: Visual Fractions Decimals and Percentages App Price: $3.99 Subject Area: Math Languages: English Rationale: This mathematical app allows students to visually explore how percentages and decimals are simply just fractions with their own notation. There are no tasks to complete or problems to solve on here; the purpose is to build conceptual understanding. Students are able to paint different grids and circles with one or more colors students can see how their coloring changes the fraction, decimal, and percentage amounts of those colors. Standards: New York State P-12 Common Core Standards Standard Strand: Standard 2 Grade: 4 Topic: Number and Operations Item Number and Statement: 5. Understand decimal notation for fractions, and compare decimal fractions. New York State Learning Standards Standard: Students will recognize and apply mathematics in contexts outside of mathematics. Performance Indicator: 4.CN.6 Recognize the presence of mathematics in their daily lives 4.CN.7 Apply mathematics to solve problems that develop outside of mathematics

App Title: Phonics Awareness,1st Grade App Price: Free Subject Area: ELA Languages: English Rationale: The phonics Awareness app is a fun way for your child to learn the core phonics. This application uses bugs as the characters to help teach children in a fun way. This app also has a highly interactive tutorial to help students relate to phonics on a more personal level and get instant feedback to what they are doing. Standards: New York State P-12 Common Core Standards

Standard Strand: 2 Grade: Kindergarten Topic: Reading Item Number and Statement: 2. Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). d. Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds in threephoneme (CVC) words.

New York State Learning Standards Standard: 1 Performance Indicator: 1.2 Use developing knowledge of letter-sound correspondence (e.g., sound spelling or invented spelling) to spell independently grade-level decodable words, including words in word families 1.3 Represent most phonemes in invented spelling, although not necessarily with conventional spellings (e.g., /k/ /a/ /t/ for cat)

App Title: WordVenture App Price: Free Subject Area: ELA Languages: English Rationale: Wordventure is a word game that is a lot of fun for both children and adults. Children can learn about parts of speech and have fun while doing it. Student chooses a WordVenture story, pick nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc., then hit save and then read your funny story. This game allows you to play alone or play as a group. This is a fun game students can play in class but still be working on their parts of speech. Standards: New York State P-12 Common Core Standards Standard Strand: Standard 2 Grade: 4 Topic: Reading Foundation Item Number and Statement: 3. Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words skills in decoding words. a. Identify and know the meaning of the most common prefixes and derivational suffixes. Use combined knowledge of all letter-sound correspondences, syllabication patterns, and morphology (e.g., roots and affixes) to read accurately unfamiliar multisyllabic words in context and out of context.

New York State Learning Standards Standard: 4 Performance Indicator: 3.0 Use decoding strategies, such as sounding out words, comparing similar words, breaking words into smaller words, and looking for word parts, such as root words, prefixes, and suffixes