ELA Reading App

App Title: Starfall Learn to Read

App Price: $2.99
Subject Area: Language
Rationale for Curriculum Use: This app features vowel sounds and related
spelling. Children are able to hear, touch, and read and eventually master sound-
spelling through a variety of engaging activities. By using this app, children will
come to recognize the relationship between spoken and written language while
having fun learning to read.
NYS P-12 Common Core/ NYS Standard
Standard Strand: Reading: Foundational Skills
Grade: 1
Topic: Phonological Awareness
Item number and statement: 2. Demonstrate understanding of spoken
words, syllables, and sounds
Ontario Curriculum Expectations
Reading
Overall Expectation:
2. recognize a variety of text forms, text features, and stylistic elements
and demonstrate understanding of how they help communicate meaning;
Specific Expectation:
2. Understand Form and Style
Text Features
2.3 identify some text features and explain how they help readers
understand texts
ELA Writing App
App Title: LetterForms
App Price: $0.99
Subject Area: Language
Rationale for Curriculum Use: This app serves as an interactive way to digitally
learn how to write both print and cursive letter forms by tracing them with a
finger over templates. Each Letter includes a sound to teach the pronunciation of
each letter.
NYS P-12 Common Core/ NYS Standard:
Standard Strand: Language
Grade: 1
Topic: Conventions of Standard English
Item number and statement: 1. Demonstrate command of the
conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or
speaking.
Ontario Curriculum Expectations
Writing
Overall Expectation:
3. use editing, proofreading, and publishing skills and strategies,
and knowledge of language conventions, to correct errors, refine
expression, and present their work effectively;
Specific Expectation
3. Applying Knowledge of Language Conventions and
Presenting Written Work Effectively
Vocabulary
3.3 confirm spellings and word meanings or word choice using one
or two resources
ELL App
App Title: Knowji
App Price: Free
Subject Area: Language
Rationale for Curriculum Use: This app offers a large set of content to help
students learn and remember English words. It provides a built-in memory coach
and uses scientifically proven methods to ensure learning and remembering of
words quickly and easily. This app offers engaging content so that students will
not only memorize words, but understand them as well.
NYS P-12 Common Core/NYS Standard:
Standard Strand: Reading: Foundational Skills
Grade: 1
Topic: Fluency
Item number and statement: 4. Read with sufficient accuracy and
fluency to support comprehension.
Ontario Curriculum Expectations:
Reading
Overall Expectation:
3. use knowledge of words and cueing systems to read fluently
Specific Expectation
3. Reading with Fluency
Reading Familiar Words
3.1 automatically read and understand some high-frequency words
and words of personal interest or significance, in a variety of
reading contexts



SWD App
App Title: Living Safely
App Price: $19.99
Subject Area: Health and Physical Activity
Rationale for Curriculum Use: Living Safely provides self-directed learning sessions
for 27 important safety skills topics based on proven content developed by the
Attainment Company. Living Safely provides an accessible learning tool that is
specifically designed to be used directly by individuals with autism, learning or other
developmental disabilities at their own pace. Living Safely features 13 cognitively
accessible learning sessions on Home Safety
NYS P-12 Common Core/ NYS Standard:
Standard Strand: A Safe and Healthy Environment
Grade: 6
Topic: Family and Consumer Sciences
Item number and statement: 1. Students will know the basic principles of home and
community safety. They can demonstrate the skills necessary to maintain their homes and
workplaces in a safe and comfortable condition. They can provide a safe and nurturing
environment for themselves and others.
Ontario Curriculum Expectations
Making Healthy Choices
Overall Expectation:
2. demonstrate the ability to apply health knowledge and living skills to make
reasoned decisions and take appropriate actions relating to their personal health
and well-being
Specific Expectation:
Personal Safety and Injury Prevention
2.2 apply their understanding of good safety practices by developing safety
guidelines for a variety of places and situations outside the classroom

Content Area #1
App Title: Mathtopia+
App Price: $3.99
Subject Area: Mathematics
Rationale for Curriculum Use: This app offers interactive math challenges for
children, developing their math skills and improving their education. This app
challenges children, yet is fun at the same time, which keeps them interested and
engaged.
NYS P-12 Common Core/ NYS Standard:
Standard Strand Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Grade: 3
Topic: Represent and solve problems involving multiplication and
division
Item number and statement: 3. Use multiplication and division within
100 to solve word problems in situations involving equal groups, arrays,
and measurement quantities
Ontario Curriculum Expectations
Overall Expectation
3. solve problems involving the addition and subtraction of single- and
multi-digit whole numbers, using a variety of strategies, and demonstrate
an understanding of multiplication and division.
Specific Expectation
Operational Sense
3.5 Relate multiplication of one-digit numbers and division by one-digit
devisors to real life situations, using a variety of tools and strategies
Content Area # 2
App Title: Addition & Subtraction For Kids
App Price: FREE
Subject Area: Mathematics
Rationale for Curriculum Use: This app serves as an interactive educational
game for students to practice their math skills. They are able to learn basics of
addition and subtraction, and it is easy to understand for young students
NYS P-12 Common Core/ NYS Standard:
Standard Strand: Operations & Algebraic Thinking
Grade: 1
Topic: Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction
Item number and statement: 1. Use addition and subtraction within 20
to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from,
putting together, taking apart, and comparing with unknown in all
positions.
Ontario Curriculum Expectations
Overall Expectations
Number Sense and Numeration
By the end of Grade 1, students will:
1m10. solve problems involving the addition and subtraction of single-
digit whole numbers, using a variety of strategies
Specific Expectations
Operational Sense
1m25. solve a variety of problems involving the addition and subtraction
of whole numbers to 20, using concrete materials and drawings.


Choice Area App #1
App Title: Sea Life Videos- Ocean & Marine Creatures
App Price: $0.99
Subject Area: Science and Technology
Rationale for Curriculum Use: This app provides educational videos of under
water ocean life showing sea life creatures. This is app is great for visual learners
and shows students first hand what sea creatures look like and how the live.
NYS P-12 Common Core/ NYS Standard:
Standard Strand: The Living Environment
Grade: 1
Topic: Living things are both similar to and different from each other and
from nonliving things
Item number and statement: 1.Living things grow, take in nutrients,
breathe, reproduce, eliminate waste, and die.
Ontario Curriculum Expectations
Overall Expectation
3. demonstrate an understanding of the basic needs and characteristics of
plants and animals, including humans.
Specific Expectations
2.3 investigate and compare the physical characteristics of a variety of
plants and animals, including humans
3.2 identify the physical characteristics of a variety of plants and animals
Choice Area App # 2
App Title: Funny Money: Learning Coins
App Price: FREE
Subject Area: Mathematics
Rationale for Curriculum Use: This app provides students real life experience using
money. This app teaches students to handle money, help to count the budget and spend
accordingly. These are skills children can use in their day to day lives.
NYS P-12 Common Core/ NYS Standard:
Standard Strand: Measurement and Data
Grade: 1
Topic: Tell and write time and money
Item number and statement: 3.Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using
analog and digital clocks. Recognize and identify coins, their names, and their
value.
Ontario Curriculum Expectations
Overall Expectation
Number Sense and Numeration
1. read, represent, compare, and order whole numbers to 50, and use
concrete materials to investigate fractions and money amounts
Specific Expectation
Operational Sense
1.2 add and subtract money amounts to 10,using coin manipulatives and
drawings.