iPad apps - Literacy/English - Primary
by Nord Anglia Education Department
1. Story Wheel - £1.99 - creative group story creation, narration over random setting choosing for each student, share by email
2. SENTENCE READING MAGIC - Free - Word/sentence sound recognition with pictures. Either sentence building or sentence reading. Only 2/3 word sentences.
3. PHONICS VOWELS - Free/£1.99 - Teaches phonic awareness by recognizing word sounds.
4. STRIP DESIGNER - £1.99 - Create comic with images from web or photos. Good for creative representation of stories, novels, events, etc.
5. TELL A TALE - Free/£0.69 - Creative story prompt. Random generation of opening/closing sentence and 3 images.
6. WORD SEARCH + - Free/£1.99 - Practice word recognition in this classic, fun game. Lots of categories and levels, pay to remove ads and unlock more options.
7. WORD SEARCH STAR - Free/£0.69 - Practice word recognition in this classic, fun game. Lots of categories and levels, pay to remove ads and unlock more options.
8. TREASURE HUNT (Pirate) - Free - all round fun game with various challenges incorporating word and number games.
9. SKILL BUILDER SPELLING - Free - Practice spelling and typing. Input own words that flash up and then can be typed against the clock. Input up to 10 lists of words
10. WHAT AM I - Free/£1.49 - Recognise profiles from description. Pay to remove ads and more options.
11. SPELLING TEST - Free - Create spelling tests for yourself or others. Simple but effective.
12. SPELLING FREE - Free - Powerful spelling test creator. Choose words from dictionary and test yourself using built in audio prompts.
13. SPELL GAME - Free - Practice spelling from audio and text description. Fun graphics.
14. WRITER'S HAT - £0.69 - Creative writing prompts with nouns, verbs, adjectives selected randomly
15. WORD MOVER - Free
16. Creative Book Builder - £2.49 - Powerful ebook creation app with lots of import options and media elements
17. BOOK CREATOR - £2.99 - Popular ebook creation app, simple to use. Import images, video and text.
18. MY STORY - £1.49 - Ebook creator aimed at younger students. More about pictures/drawing/images than text.
19. LITTLE WRITER - THE TRACING APP FOR KIDS - Free - Learn to write letter, numbers, shapes and words in this fun, simply tracing app.
20. PHONICS GENIUS - Free - Teaches phonic awareness, helps recognize and distinguish words by sounds. Practice speaking or play recognition games.
21. ABC PHONICS LONG VOWEL WORDS - Free - Teaches simple phonic sounds. Shoot the right words, simple but fun.
22. HANGMAN!! - Free/£0.69 - Practice spelling in this fun, classic game. There are many hangman apps, all have ads. In this one you can pay to remove them.
23. HANDWRITING (Barking apps) - Free - Appears as PAINT PAD - Simple pratice handwriting app, use with decent styluses. Lined or blank background.
24. COMIC CREATOR - Free - Create comic with images from web or photos. Good for creative representation of stories, novels, events, etc.
25. DRAGON DICTATION - FREE - Speak to text app, practice accurate articulation in this dictation app.
26. CROSSW0RD+ - Free - 15 free crosswords with no ads split into 3 levels.
27. DICTIONARY - Free/2.99 - Dictionary and Theasaurus. Simple, pay to remove ads.
28. ABC MAGNETIC ALPHABET - Free/£1.49 - Like a blackboard with sticky letters. Connect to projects and use the iPad as the board. Simple but effective. Pay to remove ads.
