Web-sites+and+Apps

WEBSITES: [|Brain Pop] //For students grades K-12 // Rationale:
 * I would use this website for my students during math or reading. It has fun educational games for all ages at all levels. There is something for every student to play and to benefit from. **

[|Brain Pop JR] //For students in grades K-3 // Rationale: **I would specifically use this website for my younger grades. I would because it is geared more toward that age level with less things on the website for them to choose from. It allows students to pick their game and what they want to learn based on the needs that they have in their specific grade level. ** [|ABCya]  //For students in grades K-5 // Rationale: **I would use this website in all of my centers. It has a variety of subjects to learn from. There are great videos that teach a lesson based on the students needs with great characters that they love! ** [|Sheppards Software] Rationale: **I would specifically use this website when teaching science to my kids. It has great videos and activities that are on their level and that they can learn from by interacting with this website. ** [|Fun Brain]  //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">For students in grades K-8 // <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">Rationale: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">[|Cool Math] //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">For students in grades K-12 // <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">Rationale: **I think this is a great website for all ages. It has great games that kids love. They are very educational and not only teach you about math but they also teach you about real life scenarios. I would use this app during math centers.** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">[|Reading A-Z] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">Rationale: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">This is a great website for students to listen to books and to read books. I would use this website for my reading centers. I think it is important for students to be given the option to read the book or listen to it. This website also provides a variety of different books based on reading levels. ** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">[|Raz-Kids] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">[|Bite Size Literacy] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">[|Starfall] <span style="color: #bb3e11; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 45px; line-height: 67px;">APPS: =<span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; color: #333333; font-family: 'Crete Round',Rockwell,Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 38.5px;">Motion Math: Hungry Fish = <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Motion Math: Hungry Fish is a fun addition and subtraction game for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. The game features a fish who eats numbers plus instant addition – touch two numbers together and they instantly add. Most addition games teach in the form 3 + 4 = __; Hungry Fish challenges players to find, for example, the many different ways to make a 7 (1+6, 2+5, 3+2+2, etc.). There's 18 levels of challenge (for 4-year-olds to adults) and bonuses that let you customize your fish with new colors and fins. It's also a wonderful game to play with your child, your students, nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">Rationale: **I would use this app during my math time. It allows students to play a game while also working on their addition problems. I think the students would have fun with this game because it creates a fun visual for them while doing math problems.**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">I would use this website for math and reading both. It has great games for students with math and for reading it has books that they can listen to. I think it is important for students to listen to books as well as read them themselves. **

=<span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; color: #333333; font-family: 'Crete Round',Rockwell,Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 38.5px;">Math Bingo = <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The object of Math Bingo is to get a pattern of five Bingo Bugs in a row by correctly answering math problems. Math problems are presented at the top of the game screen. Feedback is presented at the bottom of the game screen. Correct solutions to problems answered incorrectly will be displayed <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">Rationale: **This is a fun game for students to play a popular game, while also working on their math. I would use this app during my math time. I think this game could be played as a group or individually to really challenge the student to think hard about the math problem in order to win the game.**

iCanWrite Grade Level: K-1 Skill: Handwriting

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;"> //iCanWrite// is a letter tracing app. Students can work from preset groups of letters or you can enter groups for them to use. Letters are shown one at a time with a demonstration. Once the letter is traced correctly, the next letter is shown. At the end of the sequence the results are shown as handwriting to give a great sense of achievement. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">Rationale: **This is also a good app for students who are becoming familiar with their words and letters. This app allows students to look at the letter, visualize it, and then to write it. I would use this app during my writing time.**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #ba6520; font-family: inherit; font-size: 21px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SentenceBuilder Grade Level: K-5 Skill: Sentence Construction <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;"> //SentenceBuilder// is an app that helps children learn to build grammatically correct sentences about a given picture. Special attention is paid to the connector words. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">Rationale: **I would use this app in my classroom to help students build sentences based on a picture that was given to them. It allows students to be creative and really interpret what they think about the picture. It allows students to use their imagination and I think that is very important.**

Park Math
Variety is the name of the game in this engaging yet educational app. With seven sections to choose from, kids will learn addition, subtraction, counting and categorizing.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">Rationale:
 * I would use this app during my math centers. It provides students with an option of what they would choose for math. It is great with learning subtraction, adding, and counting. My mentor teacher uses this app and it really seems to grasp the students attention. **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">ArtikPix <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">ArtikPix is an engaging articulation app with flashcard and matching activities for children with speech and sound delays. Rationale: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">**I would use this app for any student who had trouble forming words or sounds because of their speech delay. I think this is a great app because it allows students to really focus on their speech through technology.**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">iTouchiLearn Life Skills: Morning Routines <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">Morning routines come to life as players progress through each routine and receive virtual rewards for completing a task. Includes: activities that reinforce learning life skills, play space rewards and "sing to me" morning routines song. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">Rationale: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">**I would use this app for a student who needs that routine schedule. Maybe a student with Autism or who has EBD and needs that visual aid or constant positive reinforcement.**

Little Writer- The Tracing App for Kids: Tracing along the lines and collecting all the apples and fishes. You can customize the voices. You can add pictures of family and friends. This app also includes a collection of basic shapes to draw since handwriting require the same core skills. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">Rationale: **I would use this app for children in kindergarten, even in the beginning of first grade depending on where the students are. I think this app is very purposeful when teaching a child how to write their letters and to also become familiar with what they are and what they look like.**

Phonics Genius: Added articulation practice mode so uses can record their own voice and then listen and compare it to the recorded pronunciation. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">Rationale: **I think this app is important to any K-2 grade when students are still learning phonics. It also provides an option to record yourself. I think this is very important because when students record themselves saying the word, they know what they are saying wrong and can find out themselves how to fix it.**