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English Grammar Drop: $0.99
This is an app that is both fun and educational. Learn and reinforce plural and possessive forms of the English language. This can be used as SAT test prep or as basic English grammar review.
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Grammar Express (series of apps): FREE
Grammar Express offers a series of apps including Parts of Speech and Tenses that offer complete courses in mastering these topics of grammar. Students learn the grammar rules, study the examples, and then test their understanding by taking a quiz.
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Grammar Up: FREE
Students can study grammar rules by topic and then test themselves in mixed questions presented randomly from all the topics.
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LearnEnglish Grammar: FREE
With this app, students can practice all areas of English grammar with
10 unique activities that help to build their understanding of all the essentials of English.
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Painless Grammar Challenge: FREE
Test your knowledge and then test your skill in this ultimate grammar and arcade game challenge.

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iBrainstorm: FREE
This app offers a useful way to capture and share your inner most creative genius with this multi-device collaboration tool.
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Idea Sketch: FREE
Idea Sketch lets you easily draw a diagram- mind map, concept map, or flow chart – and convert it to a text outline and vice versa.
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MindMash: FREE
This is a brainstorming and note-taking app that allows users to create an idea mash-up by combining and manipulating text, images, and drawings in a visual and free-form manner.
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Popplet: FREE
Popplet is a platform for your ideas. This app has a super simple interface that allows you to move at the speed of your thoughts. You can capture your ideas and sort them visually, both quickly and easily.
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Audiobooks: FREE
You can listen to audiobooks on your iPad by downloading up to 2 books at a time over wi-fi for offline listening or stream the books instantly from the library of over 10,000 bestsellers.
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Awesome Authors: FREE
This lesson demonstrates young students learning how to participate in an online discussion, how to videotape live interviews, and how to conduct internet searches to research an author. In the lessons, the students are working on project-based activities in groups of two or three.

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Shakespeare: FREE
This free app has the complete works of Shakespeare and a searchable concordance to find the exact word or phrase you are looking for.
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Free Books – Wattpad eBook Reader
Pick from over 10 million free books and stories, connect with your favorite writers, get book and story updates, and even write stories and publish them for others to read with this app.
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Literature Analysis Guide: $3.99
By arranging the elements of literature graphically around three wheels (poetry, prose, and rhetoric), teachers and students can better visualize how the elements of literature develop style and meaning.
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ReadNRespond: $0.99
Organized according to Bloom’s taxonomy, this app provides student response forms that are applicable to any piece of literature, movie, or text available. This app is perfect for 4 th -12 th grade and the forms can be student-choice or teacher-directed. Teachers can do group instruction by projecting and completing a form as a class or forms can be assigned to individuals or small groups.
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Chasing Fireflies: A Haiku Collection: $1.99
This app features over 150 hand-selected poems and each page can be rotated to give four different perspectives. Each poem lives within a

beautifully evolving background, moving through the cycles of the seasons in perfect harmony.
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Instant Poetry HD: $1.99
Students can create their own poetry with their own pictures as backgrounds. Tap a button to pop up some words and then drag them around the screen to create your masterpiece. You can then send the poems through email.
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Poetry Creator: FREE
Ever wonder what it would be like to mash-up a Shakespeare poem with a hip hop song? This app allows you to set your creativity ablaze with limitless word mixing possibilities that allow you to become a kind of dictionary DJ.
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Poetry Magnets: FREE
This app offers a fun way to build poems. Select a category and pass the iPad around to others to build the poem. The app includes 5 categories with over 200 themed words in each.
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The Poetry App: FREE
This app features great poetry read aloud by great actors. There are over 100 poems accompanied by video and audio narrations from over
30 world class actors.
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Word Mover: FREE
From ReadWriteThink, this app is used to supplement class instruction by allowing students to create “found poetry” by choosing from word banks and existing famous works. Users can also add new words to create a piece of poetry by moving/manipulating the text.

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Spelling City: FREE
VocabularySpellingCity is a fun way to learn spelling and vocabulary words by playing learning games using any vocabulary or spelling word list. There is also the SAT vocabulary list built into the app.
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9 th Grade English Vocabulary (also available for 10 th -12 th grades):
FREE
This app offers packets of vocabulary flashcards developed by the mad scientists at TestSoup. This helps increase the number of “SAT words” committed to memory.
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Bluster!: FREE
This word matching game develops vocabulary and word understanding with over 800 vocabulary words with a variety of grade-level appropriate content.
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SAT Vocab/GRE Vocab by Front Row: FREE
No flash cards or memorization, this app follows a process to help students LEARN words rather than just to memorize them. The app guide them through simple sentences, has students answer a few questions, and then has them write some sentences.
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SAT Vocab Cards: FREE
This app comes with 1000 vocabulary flash cards to help students learn quickly. The app gives audio for the word and its definition, example sentences, flashcard mode for studying, and quiz mode to evaluate.
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SAT Vocab – MindSnacks: FREE
This app features 9 addictive games designed to build SAT, PSAT, and
GRE vocabulary. Students will learn vocabulary, context, spelling, and antonyms.

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Vocabulary HD: FREE
The app features 500 words with 5 levels of difficulty, a pronunciation tool, synonyms, sentence examples, accelerated learning, and a test.
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Vocabulary Central (series of apps for grades 6-12) : FREE
This series of apps for each grade level 6-12 offers specific and academic support activities such as interactive flashcards, songs, and trivia games. They are divided into units of content at each grade level to help students learn each vocabulary word.
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Advanced English Dictionary and Thesaurus: FREE
A large lexical database of English with up to 140,000 entries and more than 1.4 million words developed by the Cognitive Science
Laboratory at Princeton University.
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Dictionary.com Dictionary & Thesaurus for iPad: FREE the top-rated app with trusted reference content from
Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com. Over 2 million definitions, antonyms, and synonyms. No internet connection is needed for most content.
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Essay Writing Guide: $3.99

This is a valuable reference tool for student writers. With the elements of writing arranged graphically around four wheels – content, style, organization, and mechanics – just click on any term and a page appears containing the definition of that term, instructions on its proper use, and examples from literature and rhetoric. Click on
“mechanics” and a new shell appears where the proper conventions of
English are fully explained and illustrated.
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Writers app: $0.99
This app allows you to plan a story, create characters and places and access the details of your own novel at any time from any place.
Users can write a synopsis, premise, plot, and make notes for stories.
You are also able to synchronize the contents of the app between all devices.
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A Novel Idea: FREE
This is a wonderful tool for plotting a story and recording bursts of inspiration. The app features a simple interface to create characters, locations, scenes, and novels and then link them together to create a plot. The app has an “idea” feature to quickly jot down creative sparks or snap pictures to link to story elements. You can arrange scenes by dragging and dropping them into place and add scene goals and objectives for each character.
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StoryLines for Schools: FREE
This is an award winning game of “telephone” with pictures. It offers a great, educational means of learning new vocabulary, language concepts, and creativity in story telling for all ages.
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Trading Cards: FREE
An app from ReadWriteThink, Trading Cards allows kids and teens to share their understanding of various topics in a unique way. Students can build study aids for school or create their own fictional world of

characters. Each category of trading cards has specific guiding questions for creating a dynamic, information-rich trading card.
Summarizing skills are critical as students must drill down to the most important information to fit on the card. In addition, students become aware of writing for an audience as they share their cards with others.
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Book Chat: FREE
If you have ever read a great passage in a book and wanted to discuss it, then this is the app for you. You can connect with other readers that are reading the same book to chat. You simply open the app, register, and then join the chat about the book. You can add your own discussion questions as well as suggest books within the app.
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Book Magic: FREE
Book Magic inspires creativity by allowing you to author, publish, and share your own books. Within this app you can create novels, books, magazines, photo albums, and brochures. You can then publish them and share them with others.
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Tools 4 Students: $0.99
This app features 25 graphic organizers for students to use to organize their thinking while reading or preparing to write. The app covers all comprehension skills: cause/effect, main ideas/detail, sequence of events, pros/cons, story elements, characterization, word meanings, plots, KWL, and much more. You can save to your device or email and use again and again. The app can be used to collaborate with team members, organize notes while reading, or used to prewrite school papers. This is a wonderful app for teachers and/or students.