ELA Reading App

Subject Area: English Language Arts: Reading

App Title: Epic!
App Price: Free
Languages: English

Rationale: This app is free for educators and librarians in The United States and Canada. This app will serve as
a classroom reading resource and wonderful reading program with thousands of books, such as, early readers,
chapter books, non-fiction and audio readings. A personalized profile can be created for each student that will
track how many books read, as well as, allowing teachers to send recommendations to each student based on the
students reading level and interest. Educators are also provided classroom resources, such as, parent email and
newsletter examples, lesson plan ideas and ways to incorporate Epic! into the classroom. This app is very
accessible and can be used across devices, on desktops, laptops, Chromebooks, iOS and Android Devices.

Standards:
ISTE Standards for Students
1a. Empowered Learner. Articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging
technology to achieve them and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning
outcomes.
ISTE Standards for Educators
6a. Facilitator. Foster a culture where students take ownership of their learning goals and
outcomes in both independent and group settings.
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards
Standard Strand: Reading Standards for Foundational Skills K5 [RF]
Grade: 2
Topic: Fluency
Item number and statement: 4. Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support
comprehension. A) Read grade level text with purpose and understanding.
Ontario Curriculum Expectations
Standard Strand: Reading Standards 1-8
Grade: 2
Topic: Reading for Meaning
Item number and statement: 1.2 Purpose. Identify several different purposes for
reading and choose reading materials appropriate for those purposes (e.g., picture books
for entertainment or reflection, familiar favortie books to build fluency, simple factual
and visual texts for research, a picture atlas for information)
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ELA Writing App

Subject Area: English Language Arts: Writing
App Title: Write about this
App Price: $ 3.99
Language: English

Rationale: This app is an engaging tool for writing activities within the classroom. It will engage students
critically and creatively by providing them prompts in various writing genres. Students can compose and write
across the curriculum, including opinion, narrative, expository and literature responses. The app has a variety of
tools for customizing pictures, recording prompts, recording ideas, writing and publishing that promotes writing
and fluency skills.

Standards:
ISTE Standards for Students
6b. Creative Communicator. Create original works or reponsibly repuprose or remix digital
resources into new creations.
ISTE Standards for Educators
5a. Designer. Use technology to create, adapt and personalize learning experiences that foster
independent learning and accomodate learner differences and needs.
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards
Standard Strand: Reading Standards for Foundational Skills K5 [W]
Grade: 2
Topic: Producation and Distribution of Writing
Item number and statement: 5. With guidance and support from adults and peers, focus on
a topic and strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing.
Ontario Curriculum Expectations
Standard Strand: Reading Standards 1-8
Grade: 2
Topic: Developing and Organizing Content
Item number and statement: 1.2 Developing Ideas. Generate ideas about a potential
topic, using a variety of strategies and resources.
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Math App
Subject Area: Math
App Title: Prodigy Math Game
App Price: Free with $11.99/month membership (not required)
Languages: English

Rationale: Prodigy Math Game aligns with the Common Core and Ontario Curriculum. It is an interactive
virtual app that provides students accessibility both at school and at home. This is a great flipping tool to
enhance learning both at home and in the classroom. Teachers are provided assessment tools and real-time
reports to track students progress, diagnostic test and trouble spots. This app supports the 4 Cs,
Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking and Creativity, for 21 st Century learning and is easy for
teachers to implement within their classrooms.

Standards:
ISTE Standards for Students
1a. Empowered Learner. Articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging
technology to achieve them and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning
outcomes.
ISTE Standards for Educators
6a. Facilitator. Foster a culture where students take ownership of their learning goals and
outcomes in both independent and group settings.
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards
Standard Strand: Operations & Algeraic Thinking 2.0A
Grade: 2
Cluster Heading : Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction
Standard Number and Statement: 1. Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve one-
and two- step word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting
together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using
drawings and equations with a symbly for the unknown number to represent the problem.
Ontario Curriculum Expectations
Standard Strand:
Grade: 2
Topic: Number Sense and Numeration
Specific Expectation and statement: Operational Sense. Solve problems involving the
addition and subtraction of two-digit numbers, with and without regrouping, using
concrete materials, student generated algorithms and standard algorithms.
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ENL/ELL App
Subject Area: English New Learner/English Language Learner
App Title: Brain Pop ESL
App Price: $84.99
Language: English

Rationale: This app will help will support with the understanding and application to learning the English
language. This is a comprehensive program focusing on reading, writing, listening and speaking. BrainPOP
ESL is in align with the Common Core Standards and can be integrated into the classroom within small groups,
centers and individually or it can be used as a supplemental resource. Additionally, it is a highly engaging app
that presents new concepts and vocabulary within everyday situations and helps provide context.

Standards:
ISTE Standards for Students
7a. Global Collaborator. Use digital tools to connect with learners from a variety of backgrounds
and cultures, engaging with them in ways that broaden mutual understanding and learning.
ISTE Standards for Educators
5a. Designer. Use technology to create, adapt and personalize learning experiences that foster
independent learning and accomodate learner differences and needs.
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards
Standard Strand: Reading Standards for Foundational Skills K5 [SL]
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.
Ontario Curriculum Expectations
Standard Strand: Reading Standards 1-8
Grade: 2
Topic: Reflecting on Oral Communication Skills and Strategies
Item number and statement: 3.2 Interconnected Skills. Identify, initially with support
and direction, how their skills as viewers, representers, readers, and writers help them
improve their oral communication skills.
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SWD App
Subject Area: Language/Communication Students with Disabilities
App Title: My Talk Tools
App Price: $139.00
Language: English

Rationale: This app will support students with disabilities who have a difficult time expressing their needs and
desires to people around them. This is a good app for students with downs syndrome, cerebral palsy, hearing or
visual impairments, autism or other diagnosis impairing communication. This technological tool supports
functionality and modification for the classroom by producing a students ability to communicate and
collaborate. This app redefines what used to be inconceivable.

Standards:
ISTE Standards for Students
6a. Creative Communicator. Choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired
objectives of their creation or communication
ISTE Standards for Educators
5a. Designer. Use technology to create, adapt and personalize learning experiences that foster
independent learning and accomodate learner differences and needs.
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards
Standard Strand: Reading Standards for Foundational Skills K5 [SL]
Grade: 2
Topic: Comprehension and Collaboration
Item number and statement: 1. Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse
partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups B)
Build on others talk in conversations by linking their comments to the remarks of others.
Ontario Curriculum Expectations
Standard Strand: Reading Standards 1-8
Grade: 1
Topic: Speaking to Communicate
Item number and statement: 2.3 Clarity and Coherence. Communicate ideas and
information orally in a clear, coherent manner (e.g., use a logical framework such as a
beginning, middle, and end sequence to retell a story read aloud by the teacher)
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Social Studies App

Subject Area: Social Studies
App Title: Kids World Atlas
App Price: $6.99
Language: English

Rationale: This app can enhance the learning of the countries of the World. This is a fun and engaging app that
has games and activities that teach students about places they have not seen yet as well countries they have been
to. This app engages students in learning about facts and figures through pictures and videos. This app can
supplement lessons taught in the classroom by prompting students to embrace new learning. These new
experiences can promote communication and collaboration of new experiences within the classroom and at
home.

Standards:
ISTE Standards for Students
6a. Creative Communicator. Choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired
objectives of their creation or communication
ISTE Standards for Educators
5a. Designer. Use technology to create, adapt and personalize learning experiences that foster
independent learning and accomodate learner differences and needs.
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards
Standard Strand: Reading Standards for Foundational Skills K5 [SL]
Grade: 2
Topic:
Item number and statement: 1. Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse
partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups B)
Build on others talk in conversations by linking their comments to the remarks of others.
Ontario Curriculum Expectations
Standard Strand: People and Environments: Global Communities
Grade: 2
Topic: Inquiry: Natural Environments and Ways of Life
Item number and statement: B2.2. Gather and organize information and data about
some communities locations, climate, and physical features, and the ways of life of
people in these communities (e.g., use atlases, globes, print, digital or interactive mapes,
and/or satelite images to determine location; find photographs in magazines or on the
Internet that provide information on peoples food, shelter and/or clothing)
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Choice App- Health

Subject Area: Health
App Title: Eat & Move-O-Matic
App Price: Free
Language: English

Rationale: This app will enhance students understanding of the relationship between food and exercise. This
app will promote critical thinking and provoke students to look at problems in a new way. This app is practical
and promotes learning and comprehending the difference between healthy and unhealthy food as well as the
importance of daily physical activities. This app is interactive with engaging activities/games and offers ideas
and tips for healthy alternatives.

Standards:
ISTE Standards for Students
1c. Empowered Learner. Use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice
and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
ISTE Standards for Educators
5b. Designer. Design authentic learning activities that align with content area standards and use
digital tools and resources to maximize active, deep learning.
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards
Standard Strand: Health, Physical Education
Grade: 2
Topic: Standard 1- Health and Fitness
Item number and statement: Health Education. Students will understand human growth
and development and recognize the relationship between behaviours and healthy
development. They will understand ways to promote health and prevent disease and will
demonstrate and practive positive health behaviours. 1.4. Understand how behaviours such
as food selection, exercise, and rest affect growth and development.
Ontario Curriculum Expectations
Standard Strand: Healthy Living
Grade: 2
Topic: Making Healthy Choices
Item number and statement: C2.2. Demonstrate and understanding of how to make
healthy food choices for meals and snacks, considering the factors they can and cannot
control.
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Choice App
Subject Area: Health
App Title: Class Dojo
App Price: Free
Language: English

Rationale: The Class Dojo app will foster a classroom community. The app connects parents, students and
classroom teacher as a team. The app will support the creation of a classroom culture through encouragement
from the classroom teacher, communication as students showcase and share their learning and engagement from
all. This app will promote critical thinking and provoke students to look at problems in a new way. The app
works on several devices such as, iOS, Android, Kindle Fire and any computer.

Standards:
ISTE Standards for Students
1c. Empowered Learner. Use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice
and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
ISTE Standards for Educators
5c. Designer. Explore and apply instructional design principles to create innovative digital learning
environments that engage and support learning
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards
Standard Strand: Health, Physical Education
Grade: 2
Topic: Standard 2- A Safety and Healthy Environment
Item number and statement: Health Education 1. Students will demonstrate persoanlly 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 Expectations
Standard Strand: Healthy Living
Grade: 2
Topic: Making Connections for Healthy Living
Item number and statement: C3.1. describe how to relate positively to others (e.g.,
cooperate, show respect, smile, manage anger, pay attention to what people say and to
their facial expressions and body language), and describe behaviours that can be harmful
in relating to others (e.g., verbal abuse, including both online and face-to-face name
calling, insults, and mocking; deliberately ignoring someone, or ignoring the feelings
they express; physical violence, including pushing, kicking and hitting)