Power of the Pad ­ iPad Apps Aligned to K­2 ELA
Reading Literature
Title of App
Big Cat C.
Collins Series
(Free)
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Description
Develop your children’s reading and writing skills with At the Dump interactive book and Story Creator, from the
primary literacy specialists at Collins Education. Also available: My Bike Ride and It Was a Cold, Dark Night.
The perfect way to develop essential literacy skills and transfer good reading to great writing. This book has been
carefully levelled for children aged 4+.
There are 8
free books
Little Red
Riding Hood
(Free)
There are
more than 40
Tales
TabTale
The Wild
Swans
(Free)
TabTale’s interactive apps provide a new engaging experience. Richly filled with innovative activities, each app
inspires young children’s creativity and imagination in a uniquely enjoyable and fun way.
> A marvelous fairy tale ­ The famous story comes to life in an interactive book!
> Educational games inside: puzzles, matching games, shapes, counting and more!
> Fun interactions ­ Wholesome family fun for you & your children ­ HD graphics
This is totally new reading experience: illustrated audio books with interactive animation on each page.
Classic story in new multimedia form: realistically designed story book, with unique sound and animation.
­redesigned pages with every detail inside.
iBigToy
Use Chrome
and translate
into English.
This interactive audio book features:
• Stunning animation effect on each page.
• Revolutionary redesigned interactive animations. You can interact almost everything on the screen.
• Professional audio narration.
• Each page has special effects sound
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Kindle
(Free)
The Kindle app is optimized for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, giving users the ability to read Kindle books,
newspapers, magazines, textbooks and PDFs on a beautiful, easy­to­use interface. You’ll have access to over
1,000,000* books in the Kindle Store plus hundreds* of newspapers and magazines. Amazon Whispersync
automatically syncs your last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across devices (including Kindle), so you
can pick up your book where you left off on another device.
Get the best reading experience available on your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch:
• Shop the Kindle Store by visiting Amazon for the largest selection of books people want to read: millions of books,
including hundreds of thousands of titles that are exclusive to the Kindle Store and over 1.7 million titles that are
$9.99 or less.
Toy Story
Read­Along
(Free)
TO INFINITY AND BEYOND! Toy Story takes you on the adventure of a lifetime:
A fully interactive reading experience packed with Games, Movie Clips, Coloring Pages, Sing­along Tunes, and
Surprises on every page. Hear the story read aloud, record your own narration, or explore at your own pace.
*Choose Read to Me mode to hear the story read aloud, or follow the story at your own pace. You can even Record
your own voice narrating and hear it read back to you!
iStoryBook
(Free)
A COLLECTION OF 25 FREE CHILDREN'S STORY BOOKS WITH FUN PICTURES, TEXT & AUDIO FOR YOUR
LITTLE ONES.
Free Interactive Childrens Books for the new generation!
iStoryBooks comes with free books that read itself to your little ones! Yes the books include text and audio. We
publish a new book every 2 weeks. Kids can enjoy these books on their own or you can read to them.
Poems for
Little Children
(Free)
This is not just a fascinating book with beautiful pictures, but also with instructive poetic stories!
You can choose to read your child a poem about a greedy boy who ate a pie without waiting for his guests. Or by
clicking on the button next to the text, a professional storyteller will relate the tale of the dreaming cactus who found a
new home in New York City zoo.
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Writing
Title of App
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Description
iBrainstorm
(Free)
Capturing and sharing your inner most creative genius has never been easier. Introducing the first multi­device
collaboration tool from Universal Mind. From iPhone to iPad with just a flick of the finger, iBrainstorm has set the bar
and has redefined the very nature of collaboration.
MindMash
(Free)
MindMash is a brainstorming & note­taking application for the iPad. It allows users to create an ideas mash­up by
combining and manipulating text, images & drawings on the iPad in a visual and free­form manner.
MindMash turns the iPad into a canvas of ideas for students, bloggers, writers, designers, and other creative
individuals. Users can add text, images & drawings (called 'bits') to a sheet or several sheets and use these bits to
compose visual outputs for personal or professional use. It aids in the creative process by making use of a free­form
layout for the sheets as well as helps in efficiently organizing thoughts and ideas by allowing users to easily edit bits
of data.
A simple App made in 40 minutes to help students make a story using the story spine technique. Copy the result and
paste it into wherever you want.
Story Spine
(Free)
Speaking & Listening
Title of App
ShowMe
(Free)
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Description
Turn your iPad into your personal interactive whiteboard!
ShowMe allows you to record voice­over whiteboard tutorials and share them online. It’s an amazingly simple app
that anyone can use, no matter how young or old!
INTUITIVE AND POWERFUL
­ Record your ShowMe tutorial right away — no manuals or complicated menus needed
­ Drop in images onto the whiteboard
­ Easily switch between drawing and erasing (as well as pausing and playing) to make your ShowMe flow from
concept to concept
­ You can make your ShowMe as long or as short as it needs to be, and record as many ShowMe’s as you want. Go
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nuts!
­ Once you’re finished recording, upload your ShowMe to share with the community (or keep it private if you prefer)
­ Discover awesome tutorials created by other members of the ShowMe community
Doodle Buddy
(Free)
Doodle Buddy Gold is the most fun you can have with your finger! Finger paint with your favorite colors and drop in
playful stamps. Connect with a friend to draw together over the Internet.
WHAT MAKES DOODLE BUDDY SO SPECIAL?
• Funny sounds paired with stamps are a blast!
• Doodle and stamp all over your own pictures
• Scribble inside fun stencils to draw perfect shapes. Get more stencils with Doodle Bucks!
• Text Tool with resizable text and four fonts
• Post your doodles on your Facebook page
• Draw with other users on the same WiFi network
• Text chat back and forth with your drawing buddy
• Send your drawings to friends via email
• Option to buy out ads
Educreations
(Free)
Educreations turns your iPad into a recordable whiteboard. Creating a great video tutorial is as simple as touching,
tapping and talking. Explain a math formula... Create an animated lesson... Add commentary to your photos...
Diagram a sports play...
With voice recording, realistic digital ink, photos and text, and simple sharing through email, Facebook or Twitter,
now you can broadcast your ideas from anywhere.
Bitsboard
(Free)
­­­ #2 Education Game on the iPad ­­­
­­­ Bitsboard now includes over over a dozen addictive mini­games in one app ­­­
"By far the best educational app! A must have for any parent, teacher, or student!"
• Discover why Bitsboard is frequently mentioned as one of the best Educational Apps of the Year.
WHAT YOU GET:
• Access to the Bitsboard catalog including tens of thousands of gorgeous flashcards and carefully curated lessons
covering hundreds of topics.
• Bitsboard is ideal for learning languages, mastering vocabulary, learning to read, learning to speak, becoming the
next spelling champion and so much more…
• Bitsboard is fully customizable to meet your specific learning needs.
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