Reading comprehension is a very important skill for young learners. There are many tools that help to teach the young ones reading: books, activities, worksheets, etc. There are also a lot of websites and apps that can help. Angela Davis has collected a set of websites and apps to support comprehension instruction.
Math Heroes 1 – Basic Operations, is a challenging game that teaches kids about math and arithmetic. The game’s mission is to train your Ninja Yogotar solving math problems. Kids have to solve basic operations to defeat the Ignarous Army.
Why Play this Game?
This fun and educational game help children in elementary school ages to practice arithmetic problems. Kids will have fun and enjoy unlocking amazing super powers. Math Dojo is perfect for beginners and experts in mathematics.
Features:
• 4 basic operations
• 5 mini games
• 100 amazing levels
• Cool battles and amazing powers
• Game and tutorials in English and Spanish included
The app is available for free for iphone and ipad in the app store.
Finding good programs and worksheets to train acoustical perception is difficult. So we were very happy when we discovered the app “Phonetic Birds” in the app store. This app is designed to assist in improving audio discrimination and memory-sequencing. In 4 playfull mini games the player has to find pairs of birds, mimic melodies and organize birds from low to high or silent to loud.
Highlights:
The app is designed by Marc Stockel, a special education teacher in Germany. Visit his website.
The app is available in the app store and costs $ 2,99.
Meet Sushi Monster! Scholastic’s new game to practice, reinforce, and extend math fact fluency is completely engaging and appropriately challenging. Strengthen reasoning strategies for whole number addition and multiplication by helping monsters make a target sum or product. Earn points with each correct answer… but watch out for distractions! To be successful, plan ahead and strategically select numbers from the sushi counter.
Teachthought has collected 50 ipad apps that help struggling readers and writers. You will find helpful tools, fundamentals, apps for reading, writing and spelling. Check it out.
While we’re at it, also have a look at 15 Of The Best Educational Apps For Improved Reading Comprehension.
The app “Learning to draw is fun” will teach your child to draw easily 24 different pictures like a butterfly, a snowman, a flower, a birthday cake… Each drawing is split into 4 easy steps that your child can easily reproduce below the drawing templates. When the drawing is finished, your child can color it. All the drawings made by your child are saved and can be printed (needs an AirPrint compatible printer).
The app is available for ipad and costs $ 1,99 in the app store.
VideoMonster is the YouTube player especially for children. Your children only see videos they should see – because you’ve selected them. Search and select videos from YouTube in the VideoChooser and store them as playlists for your children. Access to the Video Chooser is protected by a PIN. VideoMonster comes with videos. Choose one of the prepared VideoMonster lists and add it to your selection. Children can operate the player by themselves. It’s very simple and they don’t need to be able to read. The built-in timer prevents kids from watching too long. Videos can be watched without Internet access because VideoMonster stores them on the device, if you want it to. VideoMonster runs on iPad, iPad mini and iPhone. With iCloud, video lists are always up to date on all devices.
With a sheet of paper, a grid and a template, children learn to draw 32 drawings on iPad, 16 on the iPhone in the Lite version, more than 120 (60 on iPhone) in the full version. Copying a drawing is not as easy as you think, it takes a lot of concentration and attention of the children. While copying the templates, children will exercise their observation and their logical skills with the game modes “copy”, “move” and “symmetries”, with 2 levels of difficulty (only one for iPhone) in the Lite version.
Grid drawing for kids lite is for iphone, ipod touch and ipad available on the app store. The full version costs $ 1,99.
Con-nect is a simple and addictive puzzle game based on Arukone.
The difference is that Con-nect is three-dimensional! 3D is not only more fun, but it also helps you to develop good spatial and visual perception.
Like Arukone, there are only two rules
1.Connect all pairs.
2.Fill the whole cube.
Con-nect is available for free for iphone, ipod touch and ipad. You can buy more levels within the app.
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