1.

ELA Reading App

Subject Area: English Language Arts: Reading
App Title: Word Builder
App Price: $19.99
Languages: English
App Rationale: This app is very necessary to allow students to build their phonemic background
through pronunciation and breaking down words. This app was created by reading specialists and
speech pathologists and will allow students to build the necessary background for reading
comprehension.
ISTE Standards for Teachers: 2.C. Customize and personalize learning activities to address
students diverse learning styles, working strategies and abilities using digital tools and resources.
ISTE Standards for Students: 1.A Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products
or processes.
Grade 1
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards
Reading Standards for Foundational Skills (Phonics) K5
3. Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. a. Know the
spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs.
Ontario Curriculum Expectations
Standard: Reading with Fluency
3.1 automatically read and understand some high-frequency words and words of personal interest
or significance, in a variety of reading contexts (e.g., the same word in different graphic
representations such as: on the word wall; in shared-, guided-, and independent-reading texts; on
shared- and interactive-writing charts; in personal writing; in a variety of fonts)

2. ELA Writing App

Subject Area: English Language Arts: Writing
App Title: Lingvo Dictionary
App Price: Free
Languages: English
ISTE Standards for Teachers: 1.C Promote student reflection using collaborative tools to
reveal and clarify students conceptual understanding and thinking, planning and creative
processes.
ISTE Standards for Students: Plan and manage activities and develop a solution or complete a
project
App Rationale: Students often struggle with spelling words, synonyms and are constantly in
consultation with the teacher when writing and spelling. This app allows students to be
independent and find their own definitions and spelling, as well as has the opportunity to expand
the students vocabulary through exploration of the app.
Grade 3
Standard Strand: Writing Standards K-5
NYS P-12 Common Core/NYS Standard: 2. Write informative/explanatory texts in which they
introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement
or section.
Ontario Curriculum Standards:
1.3 gather information to support ideas for writing in a variety of ways and/or from a variety of
sources (e.g., from discussions with family and friends; from teacher read-alouds, mentor texts,
shared-, guided-, and independent-reading texts, and media texts)

3. ELL App
Subject Area: English Language Arts : ELL
App Title: Learning English with Martha
App Price: $0.99
Languages: English
App Rationale: This app is fun because it allows the student to go on small adventures while at
the same time building vocabulary. Its important obviously because the majority of the
curriculum in North America is in English, so it would allow students to practice anywhere; at
home, the store or at a friends house.
ISTE Standards for Teachers: 2.C. Customize and personalize learning activities to address
students diverse learning styles, working strategies and abilities using digital tools and resources.
ISTE Standards for Students: 1.A Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products or
processes.
Grade 4
Standards for Reading K-5
NYS P-12 Common Core/NYS Standard:
4. Determine the meaning of general academic and domain specific words or phrases in a text
relevant to a grade 4 topic or subject area.
Ontario Curriculum Standards:
3.3 Vocabulary Confirm spellings and word meanings or word choice using one or two
resources.

4. Students with Disabilities App

Subject Area: Visual Arts Students with Visual Impairments
App Title: TapTapSee
App Price: Free
Languages: English
App Rationale: This app is great for students with visual impairments. This app takes pictures
of objects and vocalizes them to the student. I believe this would be a great app to allow students
to participate in art projects and identify what objects are around them. Students could make their
own interpretations and be able to participate in a visual arts class through description and
identification of surrounding objects.
ISTE Standards for Teachers: 2.C. Customize and personalize learning activities to address
students diverse learning styles, working strategies and abilities using digital tools and resources.
ISTE Standards for Students: 1.A Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products or
processes.
Grade 3
Visual Arts Standards
NYS P-12 Common Core/NYS Standard:
1. Students will make works of art that explore different kinds of subject matter, topics, themes,
and metaphors. Students will understand and use sensory elements, organizational principles, and
expressive images to communicate their own ideas in works of art. Students will use a variety of
art materials, processes, mediums, and techniques, and use appropriate technologies for creating
and exhibiting visual art works.
Ontario Curriculum Standards:
D3.1 identify and describe a variety of visual art forms they see in their home, at school, in the
community, and in visual arts experiences (e.g., original paintings at a community gallery,
sculptures in a local park, art reproductions in offices, murals or sculptural monuments in the
community, mixed media art works at arts festivals)

5. My Choice (App 1)
Subject Area: English Language Arts: Reading
App Title: Cats with Spots Amazing Animals Series
App Price: $1.99
Languages: English
App Rationale: This app is great for students who struggle with reading or need extra
motivation/ relatability to the content. This is an interactive series with animals that reads a story
to the student, while sprinkling in fun facts about nature and wildlife. This could also fit into a
science or geography curriculum.
ISTE Standards for Teachers: 2.C. Customize and personalize learning activities to address
students diverse learning styles, working strategies and abilities using digital tools and resources.
ISTE Standards for Students: 1.A Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products or
processes.
Grade 1
Reading for Information K-5
NYS P-12 Common Core/NYS Standard:
2. Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or
lesson.
Ontario Curriculum Standards:
2.7 use one or more appropriate visual aids (e.g., pictures, photographs, props, puppets, masks)
to support or enhance oral presentations (e.g., use a set of plastic animals during an oral recount
about a visit to a zoo)

6. My Choice (App 2)
Subject Area: Social Studies
App Title: World Countries All-In-One
App Price: Free
Languages: English
App Rationale: This app is great for students to learn geography on the iPad through
exploration and a combination of 7 great resources. This app combines Wikipedia, CIA,
Anthems, Maps, Flags, Capitals and World Fact Book)
ISTE Standards for Teachers: 2.C. Customize and personalize learning activities to address
students diverse learning styles, working strategies and abilities using digital tools and resources.
ISTE Standards for Students: 1.A Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products or
processes.
Grade 5
Geography
NYS P-12 Common Core/NYS Standard:
1. Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the
geography of the interdependent world in which we livelocal, national, and globalincluding
the distribution of people, places, and environments over the Earths surface.
Ontario Curriculum Standards:
B1.3 create a plan of action to address an environmental issue of local, provincial/ territorial,
and/or national significance (e.g., managing waste disposal, regulating industrial practices that
damage the environment, ensuring working on climate change, projections from corporations on
the costs of addressing greenhouse gas emissions, and/or information on the positions of the
federal, provincial, and territorial governments)

7. Content Area # 1 (Health and Physical Education)

Subject Area: Health and Physical Education
App Title: Nutrino
App Price: Free
Languages: English
App Rationale: This app is important because it allows students to develop and understand
healthy lifestyle. With unhealthy eating, inactivity and lack of knowledge of important body and
mind care, this app can be essential to student success. If students have a fun app they can refer
to when caring for their mind and body, I feel as though they are much more likely to use it.
ISTE Standards for Teachers: 2.C. Customize and personalize learning activities to address
students diverse learning styles, working strategies and abilities using digital tools and resources.
ISTE Standards for Students: 1.A Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products or
processes.
Grade 1
NYS P-12 Common Core/NYS Standard:
1. Students will demonstrate personally and socially responsible behaviors. They will care for
and respect themselves and others. They will recognize threats to the environment and offer
appropriate strategies to minimize them.
Ontario Curriculum Standards:
C1.1 explain why people need food to have healthy bodies (e.g., food provides energy for the
healthy growth of teeth, skin, bones, muscles, and other body components)

8. Content Area # 2 (Mathematics)

Subject Area: Math
App Title: Motion Math
App Price: Free
Languages: English
App Rationale: This app is specific for K- 6 learners and allows students to do fun math
practice on the go. This app includes fractions, estimating and the big 4 operations (addition,
subtraction, multiplication, division). This app has also claimed to have the worlds most
interactive number line, incorporating integers, both positive and negative for students to begin
to learn.
ISTE Standards for Teachers: 2.D. Provide students with multiple and varied formative and
summative assessments aligned with content and technology standards, and use resulting data to
inform learning and teaching.
ISTE Standards for Students: 4.D Use multiple processes and diverse perspectives to explore
alternative solutions.
Grade 4
NYS P-12 Common Core/NYS Standard:
4.N.7 Develop an understanding of fractions as locations on number lines and as divisions of
whole numbers
Ontario Curriculum Standards:
Add and subtract money amounts by making simulated purchases and providing change for
amounts up to $100, using a variety of tools (e.g., currency manipulatives, drawings)