LBP Recommended iPad, iPhone & iPod apps
READING/WRITING/SPELLING
- Letter Quiz – an alphabet tracing game – By Tantrum Apps - $1.99
Letter Quiz is the best way to learn the English Alphabet with over 10,000 copies being purchased
by schools. Four different games for every stage of learning; flashcards, identification, matching
and handwriting. Designed for kids but great for all ages.
Compatibility: Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
- Abc PocketPhonics: letter sounds & writing + first words – By Apps in My
Pocket Ltd - $5.99
PocketPhonics teaches the basics of reading and writing to young kids. Most surprising? It seems
to work
Compatibility: Requires iOS 6.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
- Starfall ABCs – By Starfall Education - $2.99
The "ABCs" section of Starfall.com's well-loved website is now available as a universal application
for your iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. Our activities motivate through positive reinforcement and
play.
Compatibility: Requires iOS 4.3 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
- Starfall Learn to Read – By Starfall Education - $2.99
Since 2002 Children around the world have learned to read with Zac the Rat — and your child will
too! Each numbered section features a vowel sound and its related spelling. Your child will hear,
touch, read and eventually master this sound-spelling through a variety of engaging activities,
movies, and songs. Encourage your child to play and explore! Your child will come to recognize
the relationship between spoken and written language while having fun learning to read. This app
is excellent for emerging readers and English language learners.
Compatibility: Requires iOS 4.3 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
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Endless Alphabet – By Originator Inc. - $6.99
** 2013 App of the Year Runner-Up **
** App Store's Editor's Choice **
Set the stage for reading success with this delightfully interactive educational app. Kids will have a
blast learning their ABC's and building vocabulary with the adorable monsters in Endless Alphabet.
Each word features an interactive puzzle game with talking letters and a short animation
illustrating the definition. Before you know it, your child will be using words like gargantuan and
cooperate!
Compatibility: Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch
- Gappy Learns Writing – Teach Kids the Alphabet by Tracing Letters – By
Spinlight Studio - $2.99
Gappy's back! In the fun letter exploration game perfect for kids just learning to write. Trace along
with the magic star to reveal the mystery letter on Gappy's mind. Or fire up the practice page and
learn how to write each letter in a fun game of connect-the-dots. With Gappy Learns Writing, you
get it all, along with an awesome drawing pad and 52 coloring pages to win, color and share for
hours of playtime fun!
Compatibility: Requires iOS 4.3 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
- Gappy Learns Reading – Teach kids to spell and read words with letter
sounds – By Spinlight Studio - $2.99
Discover the awesome reading game that helps early learners master more than 200 three-letter
words. In Gappy Learns Reading, you'll travel across four exciting worlds, spelling words to bridge
the gaps and collect the parts you need to redesign Gappy's house. From a cozy cabin to a castle
with a gingerbread roof, there are more than 700 creative combinations you can make in the
primary learning adventure perfect for pint-size readers.
Compatibility: Requires iOS 4.3 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
- Monkey Word School Adventure – By THUP Games - $1.99
Get ready for adventure...Monkey Word School Adventure! Join Monkey and his jungle friends as
they explore a fun-filled world of letters, sight words, phonics and spelling. Seamless game flow
and behind-the-scenes performance adjustment allow your child to jump right in and begin
playing and learning.
For ages 3 to 7.
Monkey Word School Adventure is an entertaining and captivating way to introduce your child to
the fundamental concepts behind reading and writing. The lessons range from letter recognition
and writing to spelling and phonics introducing word components such as consonant blends,
digraphs, irregular vowels and more! There is also a special focus on sight words, the vital
building blocks of reading and writing.
Compatibility: Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
- Rocket Speller PLUS – By Little Big Thinkers – $2.99
Kids join Zip the alien on an out-of-this-world spelling adventure to build a new rocket. With 5
levels of difficulty, kids spell words to fuel his spaceship and help him choose the rocket pieces he
needs. Once they have built their custom rocket ship, kids steer it through space to collect stars in
an entertaining mini-game.
Compatibility: Requires iOS 6.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
- Simplex Spelling HD – Dolch Sight Words With Reverse Phonics – By
Pyxwise Software Inc. - $4.99
Rather than using flash cards, Simplex Spelling enables the student to build each word. Students
gain skills above and beyond the sheer memorization of words.
Simplex Spelling is great tool to have for kids learning to spell and read, remedial students, or
those learning English as a second language.
Recommended for ages 5+.
Compatibility: Requires iOS 4.3 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
MATH
- Candy Count Advanced – By Camigo Media LLC - $1.99
Candy Count provides a fun and interactive way to teach your toddler colors and numbers.
Concepts covered include:
* SORTING colors (red, blue, orange, yellow, green, pink, purple, brown, black, white)
* COUNTING numbers (1-12)
* COMPARING quantities
* ARRANGING numbers
Compatibility: Requires iOS 4.3 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
- Motion Math: Pizza! – By Motion Math - $3.99
Create the pizzeria of your dreams in Motion Math: Pizza! Learn economics and mental math as
you buy ingredients, design pizzas, set prices, and serve customers in this delightfully delicious
simulation game
Compatibility: Requires iOS 6.1 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
- Math Bingo – By ABCya.com - $0.99
The original Math BINGO! Over 1 Million Players!
- Featured in The New York Times
- Oct 2011 -Featured in Disney's FamilyFun Magazine
- August 2011
- Ranked number 1 educational app for 3 weeks straight!
- Featured in Best iPad Apps book by Peter Meyers - O'REILLY
- Ranked a top 50 education app for over 3 years!
The object of Math BINGO is to get a pattern of five BINGO Bugs in a row by correctly answering
math problems.
Compatibility: Requires iOS 4.3 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
- Motion Math: Zoom – By Motion Math - $2.99
"I'm a teacher of 4th and 5th graders and this is one of the best math apps I've found...I've
watched kids who have struggled mightily with decimals suddenly understand how the whole
system works...Every classroom should have this app." - iTunes reviewer MN Teacher
Master numbers, negatives, and decimals with this animal adventure! Motion Math Zoom features
the world's most interactive number line - kids have a blast exploring numbers as they gain a
deep understanding of place value.
Compatibility: Requires iOS 6.1 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
- Mystery Math Town for iPhone – By Artgig Studio - $1.99
Use your math skills to rescue the fireflies in Mystery Math Town for ages 6-12 and up.
Your mission: Help a friendly and curious little ghost rescue the fireflies that are hidden in Mystery
Math Town. Players use math skills to unlock rooms and passages on their enchanting journey.
Along the way, you can also earn talking portraits of the townspeople for your Gallery. Every
picture has a story to tell and the colorful cast of characters in this town have plenty to say.
Compatibility: Requires iOS 4.3 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
- Dinorama – By thesixtyone - $2.99
Let your kids build a dinosaur park!
As a park owner, they're in charge of everything from buying food and habitats for their dinosaurs
to selling popcorn and hiring employees. Dinorama provides an engaging, entrepreneurial
experience where kids literally learn the value of saving for a rainy day -- parks are filled with
unpredictable events like rainstorms that lower ticket sales, crop shortages that raise food prices,
and flat tires that maroon valuable tourists. There's even a (piggy) bank where kids can earn
interest!
Compatibility: Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
- Pet Bingo – By Duck Duck Moose - $1.99
Come watch your child’s understanding of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division grow
with their very own pets! Pet Bingo is a playful game for Kindergarten through Fourth Grade, that
is aligned with Common Core State Standards for Math.
Compatibility: Requires iOS 5.1 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
- Bugsy Kindergarten Math – By Peapod Labs LLC - $2.99
Bugsy is a very hungry hamster. Keep his fridge stocked by playing fun math games.
WHAT YOUR CHILD CAN LEARN
- Numbers — 0-30
- Counting — count by 1, 2, 3 & 5
- Comparisons — quantities & numbers
- Writing Numbers — 0 - 9
- Pattern Recognition — simple & complex
- Number Bonds — number relationships
- Basic Arithmetic — addition & subtraction up to 20
Compatibility: Requires iOS 5.1 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
OTHER
- Gro Garden – By Gro Play - $2.99
Meet Connie the Compost and her friends the Micro organisms. They live under the trees in your
Gro Garden, right next to the animals, and they love old food scraps! When you feed Connie and
her friends, magic things start to happen. They start producing nutritious soil that makes your
crops grow faster and taste better. So after harvesting your tasty vegetables you can treat Banja
the rabbit and all the other animals in the cottage. Along the way your Item Collection will also
grow with cool items, good food, and badges to reward your progress.
Gro Garden is the fun place to learn about organic gardening and sustainable farming. Kids get to
learn and understand environmental issues in a simple and entertaining way.
Compatibility: Requires iOS 4.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone
5, iPhone 5c, iPhone 5s, iPad, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation) and iPod
touch (5th generation).
- ADHD Treatment – By Eytan Shleizer - $9.99
Neurocognitive therapy has been clinically shown to improve executive functions in as little as
three months in several double-blind studies. Until now however, similar digital treatments have
cost hundreds of dollars.
After over a year in development, ADHD Treatment app can decrease your dependence on
medication with a natural treatment that is clinically proven to combat ADHD symptoms.
Unlike other programs, ADHD Treatment strengths the core cognitive skills and executive
functions. By doing so it is able to address the fundamental causes of ADHD and achieve long
lasting results.
Compatibility: Requires iOS 6.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.