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Subject Area: ELA Reading

App Title: Read Me Stories
App Price: Free
Languages: English


Rationale: This app begins with a survey of your childs reading level, interest level and grade
level. Based on your selections, the app retrieves 4 books to your library according to your
interests. This app allows you to select books for the grade level of your child. Below is an
example of standards for a student in Grade 1.


Standards:
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards
Phonological Awareness:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.2
Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.2.B
Orally produce single-syllable words by blending sounds (phonemes), including consonant
blends.

Ontario Curriculum Expectations
Language Arts
Overall Expectation:
1. Listen in order to understand and respond appropriately in a variety of situations for
a variety of purposes;
Specific Expectation:
Demonstrating Understanding
1.4 demonstrate an understanding of the information and ideas in oral texts by retelling the story
or restating the information, including the main idea.












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Subject Area: ELA Writing
App Title: Creativity Kit
App Price: 2.99
Languages: English


Rationale: The Word Creativity Kit offers users a playground to make creations with words,
colors, designs and pictures. Limited only by their imaginations and vision, users make virtual
books that can serve as journals, notebooks, or canvases to be shared with others. This app goes
far beyond a simple creative writing system because it combines the visual appeal of an art
program with the fun of finding just the right words for poetry, stories, or other text. The app
jumpstarts the creative process by offering a selection of randomly-chosen words on the blank
page. Users can add, remove, modify, or rearrange to their hearts content. Change the
background, add pictures or stickers, change the tense or form of the words, and more to create
just the right look and feel for the project. Its a perfect opportunity for self-expression that will
encourage and nurture literacy, writing skills, and vocabulary. The apps designers say it is
appropriate for children ages 8 and up, and it would likely be just as popular with middle and
high schoolers as well as middle and upper elementary users.


New York State Common Standards:
Standard Strand: Writing Standards for K-5
Grade: 3
Topic: Writing/ Vocabulary
Item Number(s) and Statement(s):
L.3.4. Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple meaning words and phrases
based on Grade 3 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.


Ontario Curriculum Standards English Language Arts:
Overall Expectation:
By the end of grade 3 students will be able to:
Generate, gather organize ideas and information to write for attended purposes and audiences

Specific Expectation
3.1
Spell familiar words correctly (e.g., words from their oral vocabulary, anchor charts, the class
word wall, and shared-, guided-, and independent-reading texts.






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Subject Area: ELL
App Title: English Monstruto
App Price: Free
Languages: English


Rationale: The games in the English Monstruo app contain activities ranging from fill-in-the-
blank to sorting words to replacing incorrect words with correct words. Each game has a series
of levels to work through to earn points and unlock increasingly more difficult levels. To access
all eight games a player needs to first earn the maximum points in the first six games in the app.


New York State Common Standards:
Standard Strand: Writing Standards for K-5
Grade: 3
Topic: Writing/ Vocabulary
Item Number(s) and Statement(s):
L.3.4. Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple meaning words and phrases
based on Grade 3 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.


Ontario Curriculum Standards English Language Arts:
Overall Expectation:
By the end of grade 3 students will be able to:
Generate,

Specific Expectation
3.3
Confirm spellings and word meanings or word choice using several different types of resources
(e.g., locate words in an alphabetized personal word book or dictionary using first, second, third,
and fourth letters, entry words, or pronunciation; use a variety of dictionaries, such as a rhyming
dictionary or a dictionary of synonyms and antonyms; use a thesaurus to find alternative words).











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Subject Area: Math
App Title: Doodle Critter Math: Shapes
App Price: Free
Languages: English


Rationale: As kids learn their shapes, theyll go beyond the basic identification activities. Most
of the games actually have kids making shapes and maneuvering those shapes to create fun
designs. The shapes themselves also take many different forms, so kids will see more than your
basic equilateral triangle and view hexagons in a variety of sizes. These different representations
help kids truly learn to recognize the shapes in all forms.


. NYS P-12 Common Core Learning Standards for Mathematics:
Domain: Geometry 1G
Grade: 1
Cluster Heading: Reason with shaper and their attributes.
Standard Number(s) and Statement(s):
2. Compose two-dimensional shapes (rectangles, squares, trapezoids, triangles, half-circles,
and quarter-circles) or three-dimensional shapes (cubes, right rectangular prisms, right
circular cones, and right circular cylinders) to create a composite shape, and compose new
shapes from the composite shape.

2. Ontario Expectations:
Overall Expectations:
By the end of Grade 4, students will:
Construct three-dimensional figures using two-dimensional shapes.

Specific Expectations:
Construct prisms and pyramids from given nets.

B. Central Focus:
Students will be able to actively explore three-dimensional shapes, specifically prisms and
pyramids. They will be a given the opportunity to construct prisms and pyramids using paper.
This activity will be teacher guided and address the appropriate standards. The requisite skills
required for this lesson are knowledge of two-dimensional shapes and the ability to identify
triangular pyramids, rectangular pyramids, pentagonal pyramids, hexagonal pyramids,
triangular prisms, rectangular prisms, pentagonal prisms and hexagonal prisms. In addition
the students must be able provide a definition of three-dimensional shape.


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Subject Area: Science
App Title: Kid Science: Physics Experiments
App Price: 2.99
Languages: English


Rationale: Kid Science: Physics Experiments has a wealth of information
about magnetism, electricity, friction, gravity and many other interesting
topics. Explore the properties of air and water, build your own simple circuits and magnets and
more.

Read along with the text as you watch the videos, then take a fun quiz to find out what you've
learned! The innovative videobook format is intuitive to use and lets you quickly navigate with
the swipe of a finger.

Features:
Engaging experiments with ordinary household materials
Construct your own telephone, pulley, magnet and electric circuit
Learn about the physical properties of the world around us


New York State Learning Standards for Science:
Standard Strand: The Physical Setting: Students will understand and apply scientific concepts,
principles, and theories pertaining to the physical setting and living environment and recognize
the historical development of ideas in science.
Grade: K-4
Key Idea: 3. Matter is made up of particles whose properties determine the observable
characteristics of matter and its reactivity
Performance Indicator:
3.1c objects have properties that can be observed, described, and/ or measured: length, width,
volume, size, shape, mass or weight, temperature, texture, flexibility, and reflectiveness of light
Overall Expectations:
By the end of Grade 4, students will:
1. Investigate the characteristics and properties of light and sound;
2. Demonstrate an understanding of light and sound as forms of energy that have specific
characteristics and properties
3. demonstrate an understanding of light and sound as forms of energy that have specific
characteristics and properties.
Specific Expectations:

2.2 investigate the basic properties of light (e.g., conduct experiments to show that light travels
in a straight path, that light reflects off of shiny surfaces, that light refracts [bends]
when passing from one medium to another, that white light is made up of many colours, that
light diffracts [bends and spreads out] when passing through an opening)
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3.6 describe how different objects and materials interact with light and sound energy (e.g.,
prisms separate light into colors; voices echo off mountains; some light penetrates through wax
paper; sound travels further in water than air)










































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Subject Area: SWD Reading and Writing
App Title: Dragon Voice to Text
App Price: Free
Languages: English


Rationale: Dragon speech recognition software is helping to enhance the educational process for
students and teachers alike. It has been shown to improve core reading and writing skills for
students of all abilities, including those with physical or language-based learning disabilities, as
well as English Language Learners.


Standards:
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards
Phonological Awareness:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.2
Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.2.B
Orally produce single-syllable words by blending sounds (phonemes), including consonant
blends.

Ontario Curriculum Expectations
Language Arts
Overall Expectation:
1. Listen in order to understand and respond appropriately in a variety of situations for
a variety of purposes;
Specific Expectation:
Demonstrating Understanding
1.4 demonstrate an understanding of the information and ideas in oral texts by retelling the story
or restating the information, including the main idea.













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Subject Area: Math Place Value
App Title: Dragon Voice to Text
App Price: 0.99
Languages: English




Rationale: Practice place value of 2,3 and 4 digit numbers using multi-touch.

The scoreboards spin and a number appears, you are asked with words and audio "How many
tens". You must then use your fingertips to indicate how many of each digit there are.

If there are 4 tens then you must hold 4 fingertips onto the screen and wait, if you are correct it
will register and move onto the next place value.

The aim is to see how quickly you can answer 10 questions.

To change the number of digits press both cogs at the same time and enter the edit mode where
you can pick 2,3 or 4 digit numbers.

Standards: NYS P-12 ELA/Mathematics Standards, NYS Standards (if required) and
Ontario Standard

1. NYS P-12 Common Core Learning Standards for Mathematics:
Domain: Number and Operations in Base Ten - 3.NBT
Grade: 3
Cluster Heading: Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform
multi-digit arithmetic.
Standard Number(s) and Statement(s): 1. Use place value understanding to round whole
numbers to the nearest 10 or 100.
2. Ontario Expectations:
Overall Expectations:
By the end of Grade 3, students will:
Read, represent, compare, and order whole numbers to 1000, and use concrete materials.

Specific Expectations:
Identify and represent the value of a digit in a number according to its position in the number
(e.g., use base ten materials to show that the 3 in 324 represents 3 hundreds).
B. Central Focus:
Students will be able to discuss that place value is the system of writing numbers in which the
value of the digit is determined by its position, or relationship to other digits; and these value
are multiples of a common base of ten in our decimal system. This discussion will be teacher
guided and addresses appropriate standards. The requisite skills required for this lesson are an
ability to define Place Value, write digits using standard form and represent numbers using
base ten blocks.
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Subject Area: Social Studies
App Title: Whole Wide World 2
App Price: Free
Languages: English


Rationale: This app makes jet-setting around the globe both fun and educational." - USA Today

Introducing Whole Wide World 2, the sequel to one of 2012s most acclaimed educational
games. Theres no passport necessary as you play through the world one game at a time. Whole
Wide World 2 takes you on a fun journey of sight, sound and play. Meet kids from all corners of
the globe and learn about their customs and cultures. Discover the beautiful monarch butterflies
of Mexico and explore the giant rocks of Iceland. Ride a Kangaroo in Australia, find hidden
objects in China and much more! Fill your scrapbook with postcards from around the world as
you learn fun facts about cultural and geographical wonders. Start with three exciting
destinations and then choose where to go next on a learning journey unlike anything else!

Learning content:

Whole Wide World features a range of themed content around Geography, Social Studies,
History, and Culture introduced through exciting action, logic, puzzle, and matching games.


Subject: Language Arts
Grade(s): 6
Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.3
Identify key steps in a text's description of a process related to history/social studies (e.g.,
how a bill becomes law, how interest rates are raised or lowered).

2. Ontario Expectations:

Overall Expectations:

1. By the end of Grade 5, students will:identify and compare the ways in which people in
various early civilizations met their physical and social needs, including how they
interacted with and used the natural environment;
2. Show how innovations made by various early civilizations have inuenced the modern
world.


Specific Expectations:

2.6.Use media works, oral presentations, written notes and descriptions, drawings, tables,
charts, maps, and graphs to communicate information about early communities.
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