Theres an App for That!

1. ELA Reading App

App Image

App Title
My Word
Wall

App
Price
$2.29

Subject
Area
English
Language
Arts:
Reading

Rationale: My Word Wall is the perfect app for beginner readers. Students can practise reading
through fun and exciting activities and games. The best part of this app is that it caters to
multiple learning styles. Students can learn to read by seeing, hearing, saying, and writing. For a
low price of only $2.29, My Word Wall is filled with over 75 sight words and tons of colorful
graphics and games that will keep students engaged and help them become confident readers at
an early age.
ISTE Standards for Students:
1a. Creativity and innovation: Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or
processes.
ISTE Standards for Teachers:
2a. Design and develop digital age learning experiences and assessments: Design or adapt
relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student
learning and creativity
NYS P-12 Common Core/NYS Standards:

Strand: Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (K-5)

Grade: 2
Topic: Phonics and Word Recognition
Item Number and Statements:
3. Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
a. Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable
words.
b. Know spelling-sound correspondences for additional common vowel teams.
c. Decode regularly spelled two-syllable words with long vowels.
d. Decode words with common prefixes and suffixes.
e. Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences.
f. Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.

Ontario Curriculum Standards:

Strand: Reading
Grade: 2
Topic: 3. Reading With Fluency
Item Number and Statements:
Reading Familiar Words
3.1 automatically read and understand many high-frequency words, some words with
common spelling patterns, and words of personal interest or significance, in a variety
of reading contexts.
Reading Unfamiliar Words
3.2 predict the meaning of and quickly solve unfamiliar words using different types of
cues, including: semantic (meaning) cues, syntactic (language structure) cues,
graphophonic (phonological and graphic) cues.

2. ELA Writing App

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App Title
TeleStory

App
Price
FREE

Subject
Area
English
Language
Arts:
Writing

Rationale: This is an excellent app to get students excited about writing. They can bring their
writing to life by being a star of their own TV show. TeleStory allows students to choose and
dress up characters, pick a theme, and perform and record their own TV show. Creative writing
can be taken to the next level and kids will be excited and motivated to write. Students will also
practice skills such as organizing their writing, editing their work before the big performance,
and speaking with expression as they record. Best of TeleStory is free to use!
ISTE Standards for Students:
1b. Creativity and innovation: Create original works as a means of personal or group expression.
ISTE Standards for Teachers:
2a. Design and develop digital age learning experiences and assessments: Design or adapt
relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student
learning and creativity.
NYS P-12 Common Core/NYS Standards:

Strand: Writing Standards K-5

Grade: 2

 Topic: Text Types and Purposes

Item Number and Statements: 3. Write narratives in which they recount a wellelaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions,
thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense
of closure.

Strand: Writing Standards K-5

Grade: 2
Topic: Production and Distribution of Writing
Item Number and Statements: 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 Standards:

Strand: Writing
Grade: 2
Topic: 1. Developing and Organizing Content
Item Number and Statements:
Purpose and Audience
1.1 identify the topic, purpose, audience, and form for writing.
Developing Ideas
1.2 generate ideas about a potential topic, using a variety of strategies and resources.
Research
1.3 gather information to support ideas for writing in a variety of ways and/or from a
variety of sources.

3. ELL/ENL App
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App Title
EF English First
High Flyers
Vocab Game for
Learning
English 2

App
Price
FREE

Subject
Area
English
Language
Arts:
Reading/
Writing

Rationale: Learning a new language can be difficult and result in frustration. The EF High
Flyers Vocab Game app makes it fun and easy for ENL students to learn English. As they

progress through the 20 levels and engaging activities, they will learn and improve their
listening, reading, speaking and spelling skills. The app is absolutely free and is available in
English, French, German, Indonesian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.
Students will have fun learning English and forget about their frustrations.
ISTE Standards for Students: 1a. Creativity and innovation: Apply existing knowledge to
generate new ideas, products, or processes.
ISTE Standards for Teachers:
2a. Design and develop digital age learning experiences and assessments: Design or adapt
relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student
learning and creativity
NYS P-12 Common Core/NYS Standards:

Strand: Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (K-5)

Grade: 2
Topic: Phonics and Word Recognition
Item Number and Statements:
3. Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
a. Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable
words.
b. Know spelling-sound correspondences for additional common vowel teams.
c. Decode regularly spelled two-syllable words with long vowels.

Ontario Curriculum Standards:

Strand: Reading
Grade: 2
Topic: 3. Reading With Fluency
Item Number and Statements:
Reading Familiar Words
3.1 automatically read and understand many high-frequency words, some words with
common spelling patterns, and words of personal interest or significance, in a variety
of reading contexts.

Strand: Writing
Grade: 2
Topic: 3. Applying Knowledge of Language Conventions and Presenting Written
Work Effectively
Item Number and Statements:
Spelling Familiar Words
3.1 spell many high-frequency words correctly.
Vocabulary

3.3 confirm spellings and word meanings or word choice using a few different types
of resource
4. SWD App
App Image

App Title
See.Touch.
Learn

App
Price
FREE

Subject
Area
English
Language
Arts:
Reading

Rationale: This app is perfect for students with autism, or special needs in general, as it replaces
flashcards for visual instructions with 4,400 pictures and the ability to make custom instruction
for each student in need. It also includes thousands of professionally developed activities.
See.Touch.Learn has won numerous awards for being one of the best apps available for student
with special needs. The app is available in multiple languages including English, Catalan,
French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish and is offered for free.
ISTE Standards for Students:
1c. Creativity and Innovation: Use models and simulations to explore complex systems and
issues
ISTE Standards for Teachers:
2a. Design and develop digital age learning experiences and assessments: Design or adapt
relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student
learning and creativity
NYS P-12 Common Core/NYS Standards:

Strand: Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (K-5)

Grade: 2
Topic: Fluency
Item Number and Statements:
4. Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
b. Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on
successive readings.

Ontario Curriculum Standards:

Strand: Reading
Grade: 2
Topic: 3. Reading With Fluency
Item Number and Statements:

Reading Familiar Words

3.1 automatically read and understand many high-frequency words, some words with
common spelling patterns, and words of personal interest or significance, in a variety
of reading contexts.
5. Content Area App: Math
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App Title
Splash
Math
Grade 2

App
Price
FREE

Subject
Area
Math

Rationale: Get your students excited about math with the Splash Math Grade 2 app! It is perfect
for both teachers and students as it aligns with common core standards and makes math fun.
Parents and administration will also love it for these reasons and because it is free. The app
includes but is not limited to interactive problems and activities related to addition, subtraction,
time, money, place value, and measurement. The app is also available in over 30 languages
which will benefit ENL students.
ISTE Standards for Students:
4a. Critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making: Identify and define authentic
problems and significant questions for investigation.
ISTE Standards for Teachers:
2a. Design and develop digital age learning experiences and assessments: Design or adapt
relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student
learning and creativity
NYS P-12 Common Core/NYS Standards:

Strand: Mathematics
Grade: 2
Topic: Operations & Algebraic Thinking
Item Number and Statements: 2.OA
Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.
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
symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
Add and subtract within 20.

2. Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies.

Strand: Mathematics
Grade: 2
Topic: Number & Operations in Base Ten
Item Number and Statements: Understand place value. 2.NBT
1. Understand that the three digits of a three-digit number represent amounts of hundreds,
tens, and ones.
2. Count within 1000; skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s.

Strand: Mathematics
Grade: 2
Topic: Measurement & Data
Item Number and Statements: Work with time and money. 2.MD
7. Tell and write time from analog and digital clocks to the nearest five minutes, using
a.m. and p.m.
8. Solve word problems involving dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies,
using $ and symbols appropriately.

Ontario Curriculum Standards:

Strand: Mathematics
Grade: 2
Topic: Number Sense and Numeration
Item Number and Statements:
Counting
Count forward by 1s,2s,5s,10s,and 25s to 200,using number lines and hundreds
charts, starting from multiples of 1,2,5, and 10
Count backwards by 1s from 50 and any number less than 50,and count backwards
by 10s from 100 and any number less than 100,using number lines and hundreds
charts

Strand: Mathematics
Grade: 2
Topic: Number Sense and Numeration
Item and Statements:
Operational Sense
Solve problems involving the addition and subtraction of whole numbers to 18,using
a variety of mental strategies
Describe relationships between quantities by using whole-number addition and
subtraction

Add and subtract money amounts to 100, using a variety of tools

Strand: Mathematics
Grade: 2
Topic: Measurement
Statements:
Attributes, Units, and Measurement Sense
Tell and write time to the quarter-hour, using demonstration digital and analogue
clocks

6. Content Area App: ELA Reading

App Image

App Title
Sight
Words:
Kids
Learn

App
Price
FREE

Subject
Area
English
Language
Arts:
Reading

Rationale: This app includes teacher created material that is designed to help children learn sight
words. Sight Words is a user friendly app with visual, audio, and hands on activities to keep
students engaged. The more they play, the better they will be at recognizing and understanding
sight words, which in turn will make them strong readers. The app is available at no cost.
ISTE Standards for Students: 1a. Creativity and innovation: Apply existing knowledge to
generate new ideas, products, or processes.
ISTE Standards for Teachers: 2a. Design and develop digital age learning experiences and
assessments: Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and
resources to promote student learning and creativity.
NYS P-12 Common Core/NYS Standards:

Strand: Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (K-5)

Grade: 1
Topic: Phonics and Word Recognition
Item Number and Statements: 3. Know and apply grade-level phonics and word
analysis skills in decoding words.
b. Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.

Ontario Curriculum Standards:

Strand: Reading
Grade: 1/2

 Topic: Reading with Fluency

Item Number and Statements:
Reading Familiar Words
3.1 automatically read and understand many high-frequency words, some words with
common spelling patterns, and words of personal interest or significance, in a variety
of reading contexts
7. Choice App: Science
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App Title
Murky Reef
Lite 1st and
2nd Grade
Reading,
Science &
Math

App
Price
FREE

Subject
Area
Science

Rationale: Murky Reef Lite is an amazing cross curricular app with content aligned with
common core standards. This app has Science activities with interactive games and videos which
incorporate Math and ELA. Children develop their critical thinking skills as they progress
through the activities. Murky Reef Lite also addresses 4 levels of Blooms Taxonomy which are
knowledge, comprehension, analysis and application. Learning has never been so fun and
engaging and best of all, this app is free.
ISTE Standards for Students: 1a. Creativity and innovation: Apply existing knowledge to
generate new ideas, products, or processes.
ISTE Standards for Teachers:
2a. Design and develop digital age learning experiences and assessments: Design or adapt
relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student
learning and creativity.
NYS P-12 Common Core/NYS Standards:

Strand: Science
Grade: 2
Topic: Plants and animals depend on each other and their physical environment.
Item Number and Statements: 6.1 Describe how plants and animals, including
humans, depend upon each other and the nonliving environment.
6.1b All animals depend on plants. Some animals (predators) eat other animals (prey).

Ontario Curriculum Standards:

Strand: Science

 Grade: 2
Topic: Understanding Life Systems
Item Number and Statements: 2. Developing Investigation and Communication Skills
2.2 observe and compare the physical characteristics (e.g., fur or feathers; two legs or
no legs) and the behavioural characteristics (e.g., predator or prey) of a variety of
animals, including insects, using student-generated questions and a variety of
methods and resources.

8. Choice App: Visual Arts

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App Title
Hello Crayons

Hello Color
Pencil

App
Price
FREE

Subject
Area
Visual
Arts

FREE

Visual
Arts

Rationale: Skip the mess of pencil crayons shavings and having to replace crayons with Hello
Crayons and Hello Color Pencil. Students can be as creative and imaginative as they want with
these apps and create beautiful works of art. They can easily save their work and create art
portfolios. They can even save their work and share it with friends and family.
ISTE Standards for Students: 1a. Creativity and innovation: Apply existing knowledge to
generate new ideas, products, or processes.
ISTE Standards for Teachers:
2a. Design and develop digital age learning experiences and assessments: Design or adapt
relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student
learning and creativity.
NYS P-12 Common Core/NYS Standards:

Strand: The Arts

Grade: 2
Topic: Visual Arts - Elementary
Item Number and Statements: Creating, Performing and Participating in the Arts

(a) Experiment and create art works, in a variety of mediums (drawing, painting,
sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, video, and computer graphics), based on a range of
individual and collective experiences.
Ontario Curriculum Standards:

Strand: The Arts

Grade: 2
Topic: Visual Arts
Item Number and Statements: D1. Creating and Presenting
D1.1 create two- and three-dimensional works of art that express feelings and ideas
inspired by activities in their community or observations of nature.