Apps To Use For Common Core Learning Standards

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Here are a list of Apps that can be used to support Professionals, Educators and Parents in the United States Who Are Following The Common Core Learning Standards.

This list was found when looking at an Article Out Of New York About Education And The Use of Apps To Teach Common Core.

 

For Reading and Literature for the Common Core Learning Standards. It will cover ELA for Reading: Informational Texts, Reading: Foundational Skills, Writing/Speaking & Listening and Language.

 

For Mathematics. Ratios and Proportional Relationships, The Number System, Expression and Equations, Geometry, Statistics and Probability. Also apps for Social Studies, Science and Music to meet Common Core Learning Standards.

ELA- Kindergarten to Grade 5

 

The iBooks app is a free digital book viewer. Download books from the iBook store
(there are thousands of free, classic books available, and thousands more paid
books coming soon to the virtual bookstore). The pages of virtual books can be
turned with the flick of a finger, text can be highlighted and a definition checked,
text can be read via the inbuilt accessibility features.
 
TouchyBooks already includes more than 70 stories and every week it continues to broaden its 
catalogue with new additions. Thanks to interactive technologies, TouchyBooks provides an 
extraordinary stroll through the world of stories that guarantees hours of fun for the little ones at 
home or on the road, all the while stimulating their imagination and encouraging positive learning 
habits.
 
Create an electronic storybook. Illustrate, record, reorder story elements. The app includes four 
public domain children’s book that can be rewritten and rearranged into a new story.
Select an item from each category in the app and click play! 
 
Silly Story Maker will read back the sentence made from your selections and highlight each as it is read. 
 
Grammar Dragon is a learning game where the player uses parts of speech to develop cognitive 
reading and verbal skills. The touch mechanic of the game engages children in a hands-on 
learning process, implementing kinesthetic learning. The game also incorporates words and 
sentence structure to the particular grade level, based upon excerpts from grade-appropriate 
reading materials.
 
iWriteWords teaches children handwriting while playing a fun and entertaining game

 

Question Builder is designed to help elementary aged children learn to answer abstract 
questions and create responses based on inference. Extensive use of audio clips promotes 
improved auditory processing for special needs children with autism spectrum disorders or 
sensory processing disorders. Audio clip reinforcement can be turned on or off for non-special 
needs children.
 
PrepositionBuilder™ is designed to help elementary aged children learn the correct use of 
prepositions and learn how prepositions can change the meaning of a sentence.
 
Storyrobe is a mobile digital storytelling application. Create a story in three simple steps.
 
The free Merriam-Webster app is one of the most useful and respected dictionary’s.This 
dictionary application has an extensive word bank and the interface allows for students to speak 
words they are looking up and hear proper pronunciations.
 
Reading Pal
Reading Pal is a great way for your child to practice Alphabet sounds, Phonics, Sight Words, 
new vocabulary words and more. You can practice the preloaded sounds and words or add any 
word and sound you want.
 
Grammar Express : Tenses is the complete course in mastering English grammatical tenses.
It contains over over 100 pages of lessons explaining each grammar tense with several 
examples.
 
PCS Vocabulary Flash Cards
Students can use the Picture Communication Symbols (PCS™) Vocabulary Flash Cards App to 
practice vocabulary words in a fun, mobile way. This App is great for general education students 
as well as students with Autism, Down Syndrome and Language delays. This Flash Card App is 
specifically designed for Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Speech-Language Pathologists 
(SLPs), Parents and Caregivers.
 
320 word-image-phonics combinations appropriate for pre K to 4th grade to help kids develop 
their reading, writing and spelling skills.
 

ELA- Grades 6-12

 

Skills Minimod Reading for Inferences helps the student build mastery in the essential reading 
comprehension skill of inferential thinking. This app is carefully aligned with the new Core 
Curriculum. Students can play in either practice mode or game mode. The game mode is a 
bingo-like game. Students will read a passage about the fascinating cultures of the Incas, 
Mayas, and Aztecs, then answer a question about the passage that requires inferential thinking. 
 
Margins keeps your notes organized by book and page number. Each note can contain a quote 
and a comment, so you know exactly what caught your attention and precisely what you thought 
about it. You can even search for keywords in your notes.
 
25 graphic organizers for students to use to organize their thinking while reading or preparing 
to write. Covers all common comprehension skills: cause /effect, main idea/detail, sequence 
events, pro/con, story elements, characterization, word meaning, plot, KWL and much more.
 
Evernote lets you create text, photo and audio notes. From notes to ideas to snapshots to 
recordings, put it all into Evernote and watch as it instantly synchronizes from your iPhone to 
your Mac or Windows desktop.
 
My Notebook!: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/my-notebook/id497180025?mt=8
My Notebook! lets you create and share multimedia notes.
 
Mental Note
Mental Note lets you combine photographs, voice recordings, drawings and text all on the same 
page.
 
Popplet
Popplet is the ideal app for sharing visual ideas; a place to collect and curate ideas. Use 
Popplet to: collect inspirational ideas; create galleries; record your thoughts; explore ideas.
 
SimpleMind+
Mind mapping tool that turns your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch into a brainstorming, idea 
collection and thought structuring device.

 

Scribble Press
Imagine. Create. Publish. Scribble Press for iPad is a book creation platform that allows kids 
to imagine, create and share their own stories with great drawing and writing tools.
 
Literary Analysis Guide
By arranging the elements of literature graphically around three wheels (poetry, prose, and 
rhetoric), teachers and students are better able to visualize how the elements of literature 
develop style and meaning. Click on any of the literary terms listed around the wheels, and a 
screen appears with a detailed definition of the term, several examples from literature, and 
additional questions to ask yourself about how that device is employed in the literature you are 
currently studying

 

3D Classic Literature Collection
Each book is recreated in full 3D and can be taken from the shelf and opened to any page. 
Immerse yourself in the romance of reading with the sound of the leather-bound book covers 
creaking and the swiping sounds of the pages turning.
 
Gutenberg - 2300 Audiobooks
Over 2,000 free audiobooks in all genres including many classics from Jules Verne to Jane 
Austin. This large selection is made possible thanks to the Librivox project which publishes 
copyright expired audiobooks read by volunteers.
 
Pages
Pages is a fully featured word processor and page layout tool. Perfect for creating rich 
documents, such as book reports, school projects, advertising brochures, concert posters, 
invitations, etc. Pages allows you to edit and save your documents in MS Word format or as a 
PDF, making sharing a breeze.
 
 

MATH- Kindergarten to Grade 5 

 

MathBoard
MathBoard is a stunning app for teaching addition, subtraction, multiplication and division 
problems. The number of customization options available make this a brilliant app for making 
math fun for elementary school children.
 
 
Tic Tac Math Universal
This unique app combines the time-tested, kid approved favorite Tic Tac Toe game with math 
equations for an educationally fun experience. Kids love to play the game; parents and teachers 
love that their children are honing their math skills.
 
Tam & Tao in Numberland
The Montessori Method relies on autonomy and self-confidence. Children should explore 
the app by touching as many objects as possible, with the support of their parents.
 
Montessori Place Value
Review, practice, and expand your child's place value math skills the Montessori way. 
 
Math Practice Lite
The way to be good at math is to solve a lot of problems with step-by-step.
It generates problems of four operations. +, -, ×, ÷
From 1 digit calculation to 4 digits calculation, It will help you to improve your problemsolving skill.
 
Kids Time Fun
There are six early learning activities: Tell Time, Elapsed Time, Time After, and Time 
Before, Set Time, and Mixed Mode. 
 
Splash Math
Splash Math is a fun and innovative way to practice math. With 16 chapters covering over 
200 math skills and an endless supply of problems it is by far the most comprehensive 
math workbook in the app store. All of the included problems are aligned with state 
standards for 3rd grade. 
 
Fractions App by Tap To Learn
The Fractions App provides an ideal visual practice environment for you to master 
fractions concepts. They use a simple tactile interface where you can tap the screen to 
create a fraction from an everyday objects like a pizza or a chocolate bar.
 
KosmicMath
KosmicMath is a space exploration game that uses NASA imagery, themed animations 
and sound affects creating an immersive educational experience. Two modes of play, 
Mission and Drill, encourage children to master their math tables and chart their progress.

MATH- Grades 6-8

 

DataAnalysis
DataAnalysis is a general purpose iPad App for the plotting and analysis of all types of data that 
can be formulated as x,y pairs. The program can be used easily by both students and 
professionals. It is particularly useful for quick analysis of various types of data by curve fitting, 
analysis of data via a standard curve, and analysis of various types of kinetic data including 
enzyme kinetics.
 
Algebra Touch
Enjoy the wonderful conceptual leaps of algebra, without getting bogged down by the tedium of 
traditional methods. Drag to rearrange, tap to simplify, and draw lines to eliminate identical 
terms. Distribute by sliding terms across the sum, and Factor them back out by dragging them 
together.
 
Factor Race (Algebra)
Factor Race is a game where the player must identify the binomial factors of trinomial equations 
For example, factoring x2+x-2 into (x-1)(x+2). The game uses logic to develop cognitive math 
skills. The touch mechanic of the game game engages children in a hand-on learning process, 
implementing kinesthetic learning.

 

 

SketchExplorer
Drag, manipulate and animate visual mathematics to develop and generalize your understanding 
of fundamental concepts across elementary math, geometry, algebra, trigonometry, calculus, and 
beyond. Based on the award-winning software The Geometer’s Sketchpad®, the Sketchpad 
Explorer app allows you to interact with, and investigate, any document created in Sketchpad.
 
Geometry: Volume of Solids Lite
The lite version of this app provides a quick way to learn and calculate volume of solids. There 
are six computer-animated videos on the volume of the cube, rectangular solid, cylinder, sphere, 
 
Symmetry Shuffle
This mathematical puzzle allows users to explore line and rotational symmetry, while developing 
their spatial sense to create strategies to help them solve problems. The app is a fun way to 
understand the congruence, similarity, and line or rotational symmetry of objects using 
transformations

 

Social Studies

 

Science

 

Music