App Review Assignment

App Name: Vocabulary Spelling City

Price: Free
Subject Area: ELA (Writing)
Grade Level: K-8
Rational: This app provides a variety of spelling and vocabulary words and writing actives for
students in the k-8 grade range. This app is a great resource for students to practicing sight words
and acquiring and spelling new vocabulary.
NYS State/Common Core Standard: Grade 2 (6) With guidance and support from adults, use a
variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.
Ontario Curriculum Standard: 3.1 Spell many high- frequency words correctly (ie. Words
from their oral vocabulary, anchor charts, the class word wall, and shared, guided, and
independent reading texts
ISTE Standards for Students
1. Empowered learner- Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing,
achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning
sciences.
ISTE Standards for Educators
1. Learner- Educators continually improve their practice by learning from and with others and
exploring proven and promising practices that leverage technology to improve student learning
App Name: PiliPop English: Learn English for kids
Price: Free
Subject Area: ENL
Grade Level: K-5
Rational: Designed for students aged 5-10, this app is a great resource for students to practice
their oral English and learn new words every day! This app contains over 40 free fun and
engaging activities, aimed at helping students with pronunciation, new vocabulary, and putting
together phrases.
NYS State/Common Core Standard: Language Standards k-5 5.
Determine the meaning of unknown and multiple meaning words and phrases based on grade 2
reading content.
Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
Ontario Curriculum Standard: Language conventions 3.5 use parts of speech appropriately to
communicate their meaning clearly, which a focus on the use of verbs in the simple present and
past tenses.
ISTE Standards for Students
1. Empowered learner- Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing,
achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning
sciences.
ISTE Standards for Educators
2. The Leader-Educators seek out opportunities for leadership to support student empowerment
and success and to improve teaching and learning
App Name: 2nd Grade Academic Vocabulary #3
Price: $0.99
Subject Area: ELA (Reading)
Grade Level: 2
Rational: This app presents new vocabulary, presents its meaning and then places the word in a
sentence for example. The sentences are also read aloud so students can hear the words. This app
is especially helpful for students who are dyslexic or have trouble with decoding. After each
lesson, there are mini quizzes for students to test their knowledge.
NYS State/Common Core Standard: Reading fluency 4. Read with sufficient accuracy and
fluency to support comprehension. 4c. use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition
and understanding, rereading as necessary
Ontario Curriculum Standard: Reading Unfamiliar Words 3.2 Predict the meaning of and
quickly solve unfamiliar words using different types of cues (semantic &syntactic).
ISTE Standards for Students
1. Empowered learner- Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing,
achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning
sciences.
ISTE Standards for Educators
1. Learner- Educators continually improve their practice by learning from and with others and
exploring proven and promising practices that leverage technology to improve student learning
App Name: Grades k-5 Summer Math Learning Games for Kids
Price: Free (initially- monthly fee starts after first month)
Subject Area: Mathematics
Grade Level: K-5
Rational: this app offers game based math practice in areas such as addition, subtraction,
multiplication, time, measurement, money and more. Great visually appealing app for any
primary student.
NYS State/Common Core Standard: Problem Solving using 1. Use addition and subtraction
within 100 to solve one and two-step word problems
Measurement 2MD. Tell and write time from analog and digital clocks to the nearest five
minutes, using AM and PM
Ontario Curriculum Standard: number sense and numeration: Solve problems involving the
addition and subtraction of one and two digit whole numbers using a variety of strategies and
investigate multiplication and division.
ISTE Standards for Students
5. Computational Thinker- Students develop and employ strategies for understanding and solving
problems in ways that leverage the power of technological methods to develop and test solutions.
ISTE Standards for Educators
4. Collaborator- Educators dedicate time to collaborate with both colleagues and students to
improve practice, discover and share resources and ideas, and solve problems

App Name: Faces iMake

Price: 3.99
Subject Area: Art (Choice App #1)
Grade Level: Any
Rational: Faces iMake is an art app that allows students to create collages using images of
everyday objects. Designed for developing right brain activity, it enables children to express
themselves artistically. Developed by childrens author Hanoch Piven and is based off of his
created workshops that he facilitates around the world.
NYS State/Common Core Standard: (Arts) Standard 1: Creating, performing and participating
in the arts
Ontario Curriculum Standard: Creating and Presenting D1.4 Use a variety of materials, tools
and techniques to respond to design challenges
ISTE Standards for Students
4. Innovative Designer- Students use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify
and solve problems by creating new, useful or imaginative solutions.
ISTE Standards for Educators
1. Learner- Educators continually improve their practice by learning from and with others and
exploring proven and promising practices that leverage technology to improve student learning

App Name: Google Read and Write

Price: Free
Subject Area: All (students with Disabilities App)
Grade Level: Any
Rational: Used as a plug-in, this app allows students who cannot or have difficulty reading (or
writing), to use the internet along with their peers by reading out text (audio) and also writes.
Compatible with almost all websites, this website gives all students the ability to conduct their
own research (and record their findings) and work independently along with their peers.
NYS State/Common Core Standard: Writing Standard 2.W.6. With guidance and support from
adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration
with peers.
Ontario Curriculum Standard: Writing: To generate, gather and organize ideas and
information to write for an intended purpose and audience.
Research: 1.3 Gather information to support ideas for writing in a variety of ways and/or from a
variety of sources.
ISTE Standards for Students
6. Creative Communicator- Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for
a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to
their goals.
ISTE Standards for Educators
6. Facilitator- Educators facilitate learning with technology to support student achievement of the
ISTE Standards for students

App Name: Clarify by playback-explain the News to you kids

Price: Free ($4.99 Monthly subscription 5 users per account)
Subject Area: Social Studies
Grade Level: Any
Rational: The Clarify app offers daily fact-based videos explaining real life on going news
topics. These short videos break down news in a way that children and adults alike can
understanding, giving a platform for discussion at home with families or in the classroom. Topics
varies between topics such as, politics, pop culture, space exploration, climate change etc. The
app stores all the videos in a library, so a teacher or parent can search for a specific video if
something where to come up in class.
NYS State/Common Core Standard: Grade 2 Social Studies Practices
F. Civic Participation 1. Demonstrate respect for the rights of others in discussions and
classroom debates, regardless of whether one agrees with the other viewpoints
Ontario Curriculum Standard: Grade 2: Inquiry B2.6: Communicate the results of their
inquiries using appropriate vocabulary (ie. Globe, continent, equator, culture)
ISTE Standards for Students
7. Global Collaborator- Students use digital tools to broaden their perspectives and enrich their
learning by collaborating with others and working effectively in teams locally and globally.
ISTE Standards for Educators
5. Designer- Educators design authentic, learner-driven activities and environments that
recognize and accommodate learner variability
App Name: Planet Geo for kids
Price: Free
Subject Area: Social Studies
Grade Level: Grade 1-3
Rational: This app has over 6 games for students to learn about geography in an interactive way,
such as puzzle maps for over 17 countries, flashcard games, and search games for heritage sites,
monuments, capitols etc.
NYS State/Common Core Standard: Geography, Humans and the environment
2.5d the location and place of physical features and man-made structures can be described using
symbols and specific geography vocabulary
-Students will use maps and legends to identify major physical features, such as mountains,
rivers, lakes and oceans of the local community, New York State, and the nation
Ontario Curriculum Standard: B2.3 Analyze and construct simple maps to determine and
illustrate patterns in the interrelationship between the location of some communities and human
activities in those communities
ISTE Standards for Students
7. Gobal Collaborator- Students use digital tools to broaden their perspectives and enrich their
learning by collaborating with others and working effectively in teams locally and globally.
ISTE Standards for Educators
1. Learner- Educators continually improve their practice by learning from and with others and
exploring proven and promising practices that leverage technology to improve student learning