MFIS Primary iPad App List
Compiled by Tina Simat @ Manly West Primary School (1/09/2013)
NB: Prices listed below are based on those listed in the iTunes Store. Discounts apply when purchasing apps through the
Volume Purchasing Education Store: https://volume.itunes.apple.com/au/store/ .
Literacy Apps
Fine Motor and Handwriting
Application
Topic/Area
Draw
Drawing
rED Writing
School Writing
Description
Suitability
Price
A simple drawing program. Similar to Paint on PC.
K-6
Free
Handwriting
Teaches children how to write letters and numbers
using NSW Foundation Style font. Fun and interactive
design.
K-2
$1.99
Handwriting
Another app which teaches children how to write
letters and numbers using NSW Foundation Style
font.
K-2
$2.99
Sentence Building and Sequencing
Application
Topic/Area
Description
Suitability
Price
Sentence Builder
Sentence
Building
K-2
Lite: Free
Full: $5.49
Sentence Builder
Sentence
Building
A sentence builder app to learn about words,
sentences, pronunciation, grammar, and punctuation.
The only sentence app that can be fully customized
with your own pictures, words and sentences.
Teaches students how to build grammatically correct
sentences.
2-6
$6.49
Language Builder
Sentence
Building
Provides hints, great flash cards for basic sentences,
record function so children can hear their voices.
2-6
$6.49
Speech With Milo:
Sequencing
Sequencing
Builds basic sequencing skills by ordering a set of
three cards. 35 sequences. Children order sequences
and are then able to watch a mini-animation of the
sequence being carried out.
K-2
$2.99
Writing Stimulus Apps
Application
Topic
Description
Suitability
Price
Clicky Sticky
Writing
stimulus
Children drag stickers to create personalised scenes.
Great for use as a stimulus for descriptive and
narrative writing.
K-2
$1.99
Mad Libs
Story writing
Teaches students parts of speech. Children create
their own mad libs by substituting words to create
stories.
2-6
Free
Story and Book Creators
Application
Suitability
Price
Story builder The Play School Art Maker app allows children to
/ book creator create pictures, animated movies and story
slideshows using Play School toys and craft items.
They can add audio narration, upload their own
photos as backgrounds and save photos of their art
Book creator My Story combines drawing, photos, voice, and text
to promote literacy and creativity. Children can share
their book within the app, via email, or directly to
iBooks.
K-1
Free
K-1
$1.99
Story Patch
Book creator
An app allowing children to create their own illustrated
stories.
K-2
$2.99
Story Wheel
Story making
Children work in groups of 1-4 to create and record
their own stories. Develops understanding of narrative
composition and improves oral language skills.
K-4
$2.99
ScribblePress
Book creator
A book creation platform that allows kids to create
and share their own stories with hundreds of great
drawing and writing tools.
K-6
$4.49.
Book Creator
Book creator
An eBook book creation platform. Also allows
students to add hyperlinks to text and images and link
to pages in their eBook.
2-6
$5.49
Suitability
Price
2-6
$5.49
Sock Puppets lets children create lip-synched videos.
Add Puppets, props, scenery, and backgrounds. Hit
the record button and the puppets automatically lipsynch to your voice.
Children create their own personal comic strips with
pictures and text.
K-6
Free
K-6
$2.99
Easily go from taking photos to creating full comics all
on one device with full page templates and panel
layouts. Bring in photos from Photobooth or your
library, and use the editing and design tools to create
comic strips.
Make your doodles come to life. FlipBook has
everything from an eraser to onion skinning to layered
drawing.
K-6
$5.49
2-6
$5.49
Playschool Art Maker
My Story
Topic
Description
Movies, Comics and Animation
Application
iMovie
Topic
Description
Movie making Allows children to easily create HD trailers and
movies.
Sock Puppets
Animation
Strip Designer
Comic strip
creation
Comic Life
Comic strip
creation
FlipBook
Animation
Grammar, Comprehension and Vocabulary
Application
Topic/Area
Grammar Dragon
Grammar
Question Builder
Comprehension
Opposite Ocean
Antonyms
Category Carousel
Vocabulary
Read N Respond
Tools 4 Students
Description
Suitability
Price
Children correctly identify the parts of speech that
have been highlighted in sentences in order to
rescue characters from the grammar dragon.
2-6
Help students to answer abstract questions and
create responses based on inference. Students
must be able to read.
Choose the bubble antonym to solve puzzles.
2-6
$6.49
2-6
$0.99
A fun way to enhance and improve a child’s
vocabulary.
K-6
$5.49
Comprehension
Organised based on Bloom’s Taxonomy, this
comprehension app provides student response
forms that are applicable to any piece of literature.
2-6
$0.99
Comprehension
Features 25 graphic organisers which students can
use when preparing to read or write.
2-6
$0.99
Phonics
Application
Topic
Description
Suitability
Price
Futaba
Phonics
K-3
Lite: Free
Full: $7.49
Starfall Phonics
Phonics
single sounds,
blends,
diagraphs
K-2
$2.99
Phonics Genius
Phonics
single sounds,
blends,
diagraphs
Phonics
blends,
diagraphs
A game for up to four players. Each player takes a seat
around the iPad and taps in to start. The first player to
match the word to the image scores a point. Teachers
and students themselves can create their own content.
All the content from Starfall.com's Learn to Read index.
Each section features a vowel sound and its related
spelling. Children hear, touch, read and eventually
master this sound-spelling through a variety of
engaging activities, movies, and songs.
Helps students recognise and distinguish words
through sounds. Add your own cards and lists. Three
different learning modes.
K-6
Free
Students identify blends and diagraphs, recognise
words with the same beginning sounds, count syllables
in words, recognise words with the same ending and
identify sounds in words. Two player.
Children fill in the missing sounds from words. 8
exercises and three levels of complexity.
K-3.
Free
K-3
Free
Learn to recognise rhyming words and sort them by
sound. Choice of word endings.
K-2
Lite: Free
Full: $2.99
Phonics Tic-Tac Toe
Fill the Gaps
Phonics Rhyming Bee
Phonics
single sounds,
blends,
diagraphs
Phonics
Rhyming
Phonics Awareness:
1st Grade
Phonics
Segmenting,
blending
Includes three activities: segment, blend or vowel.
Interactive app that gives praise and feedback.
K-2
Free
Word Families Free
Phonics
Word families
Teaches children word families. Children choose a
word family and words from that family are shown. The
option for the word to be spoken is available. Choice of
word families.
K-6
Free
iPhone resolution
Application
Topic
Description
Suitability
Price
Word Bingo
Phonics
Sight Words
K-3
$0.99
MELS Phonics Lite
Phonics
Blending
Listen to the word spoken and tap on the
corresponding word in the grid. Words include
pronouns, adjectives, prepositions, verbs, adverbs and
conjunctions. 7 levels of difficulty to choose from.
Blending sounds (initial and final) are introduced with
different activities. Words are shown and spelt.
K-6
Free
Abitalk Phonics- Long
Vowels
Phonics
long vowels
Tap on words with the long vowel sound chosen. Word
is spoken. Three levels.
K-2
Lite: Free
Full: $2.99
Abitalk Phonics- Fun
Rhyming
Phonics
Rhyming
Choose 3 rhyming sounds. Press on the words that
rhyme. Words are spoken. Choice of rhyming sounds.
K-2
Lite: Free
Full: $2.99
Abitalk PhonicsShort Vowels
Phonics
Short vowels
Tap on words with the short vowel sound chosen.
Word is spoken. Three levels.
K-2
Lite: Free
Full: $2.99
Lakeshore Beginning
Sounds
Phonics
Beginning
sounds
Choose three beginning sounds. Match the pictures to
pictures with the same beginning sounds.
Choice of beginning sounds.
K-2
$0.99
Thum Drum
Phonological
Awareness
A fun way to practise syllables in words.
K-3
Free
Abitalk Phonics –
Word Family
Phonics
Word Families
Choose a word family and make the word by moving
the correct letters. Words are sounded out. Choice of
word families.
K-2
Lite: Free
Full: $2.99
Description
Suitability
Price
Children learn spelling and vocabulary through fun
and challenging games.
K-6
Free
Students complete words with missing letters. Game
can be adjusted to include short vowel, long vowels
and multi-syllabic words. Adjust phonetics, game
mode and maximum word length in Settings.
Learn phonics vowel sounds and letter combinations.
30 different vowel sound combinations are available.
Children complete phonics spelling in each group.
K-2
Lite: Free
Full: $0.99
K-3
Lite: Free
Full: $2.99
Touch the bubble with the missing letter. The letter
sound is spoken. Choice of which letter is missing:
first, middle or last letter. Five levels.
K-2
$0.99
Spell words to fuel the alien’s spacecraft. Four levels
available.
K-3
Lite: Free
Full: $2.99
Application presents each word by presenting a
picture, saying a word and presenting the letters
needed to make the word. Nine chapters available but
no option to adjust difficulty.
K-2
Lite: Free
Full: $1.99
Phonics and Spelling
Application
Topic
Spelling City
Spelling
Word Magic
Phonics &
Spelling
vowels,
diagraphs.
Phonics Vowels
Phonics &
Spelling
short & long
vowels,
diagraphs.
Phonics &
Spelling
CVC words
Bubble Spell
Rocket Speller PLUS
Spelling Bug
Phonics &
Spelling
CVC / complex
words
Phonics &
Spelling
CVC words
Application
Topic
Word Wagon
Phonics &
Spelling
Pocket Phonics
Phonics,
Spelling and
Handwriting
ABC Spelling Magic 1
Spelling
CVC words
Cimo Can Spell:
Sound Out / Spell
Spelling
Simple to
complex
Simplex Spelling
Spelling
CVC / complex
words
Skill Builder Spelling
Description
Suitability
Price
Review letter names, sounds and practise spelling
words up to 6 letters. Words are spelt with the letter
name and sound. Four levels.
Teaches the basics of reading and writing. Focuses
on single sounds, blends, diagraphs, blending and
handwriting. A profile is created for each player.
K-2
$1.99
K-2
Lite: Free
Full: $2.99
Teaches the sounds of letters and how to spell words.
Vowels and double consonants are reviewed. Choose
from word jumble / moveable alphabet and which
sounds are reviewed.
An interactive spelling game. Children order letters to
create a spoken word. Feature levels of increasing
difficulty: short vowels, long vowels, Bossy R’s, other
vowel teams, irregular vowels and challenge round.
A word is spoken and students must spell the word
using the keyboard provided. Various spelling lists.
K-2
Free
K-2
Lite: Free
Full: $2.99
K-6
Lite: Free
Full: $5.49
Spelling
Create up to 10 lists of words to test students on their
spelling. Spelling modes: classic / jumbled.
K-6
Free
My Spelling Test:
Free
Spelling
Record your voice and create a spelling list of words
to test students.
1-6
Free
Word Balls
Spelling
Make words from a selection of letter balls. No option
to adjust levels
3-6.
Free
ABC Spelling Magic 3
Spelling
Complex words
3-6
Free
Miss Spell’s Class
Spelling
Complex words
Practise spelling 5-7 letter words with consonant
blends and syllables.
Choice of word families to review. Choose from word
jumble or moveable alphabet.
A word game that lets players test their spelling skills
against the most commonly misspelled words.
Examples of words: intrinsic, indefinitely, succeed.
Extension
Free
Spell Games
Spelling
Complex words
Upper primary/
extension.
Free
Shows a list of words. Students choose whether
words are correct or incorrect. Review at the end of
each level. No option to adjust levels.