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"Keep up-to-date with what's movin' and shakin' on the App Store with this list of the Top 50 most downloaded completely FREE apps (with no in-app purchases) available on iTunes as of May 19, 2014. You will find apps for babies, preschoolers, toddlers, students, educators and therapists - that covers 99.9% of our readers, so what are you waiting for?"

The 12 Best Children's Educational iPad Apps Released In 2012

Edutopia blogger Andrew Marcinek describes the versatility of his five favorite iPad apps and makes a case for using them to replace the dreaded back-to-school shopping list.

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A bit pricey, but it's a good app to strengthen fine motor skills.

Great app to learn letters and corresponding sounds.

Innovative assessment apps to help educators prep for Common Core tests and provide in-depth student feedback.

This is another great, open-ended app for children to create their own books. Easy to use!

Technology and Apps geared towards children with special needs, also useful for typically developing children

Graphite's list of the best summer apps for kids and their parents. Recs are based on teacher evaluations and rated by "learning rating" and "teacher rating." Geared toward lower elementary students.

How one second-grade teacher is using her Ipad to support learning in a number of different ways

Sight word learning--dolch sight word list

Math Bingo

This is a great app that is very open ended - a bit like magnetic poetry on an iPad. A teacher can send out a "deck" of cards (vocabulary words, for example) and each child can sort them according their own categories.

Provides online and print resources to help young thinkers tackle big questions.

learn about the body -student favorite

Site that builds many different educational apps and games, like Money BINGO (counting money) and Letter Bubble (alphabetical order)