This free app from McGraw Hill is great for elementary school students to work on building their vocabulary. Students can either play on their own or with a partner. Bluster works on rhyming, prefixes & suffixes, synonyms, homophones, adjectives, and over 800 vocabulary words.
This is a great app for elementary aged students. They can practice telling a story by using the visual prompts. It records their narration into the app to play back later.
This could be the best $.99 spent on an app. Tools 4 Students includes 25 graphic organizers that can be annotated in the app and then shared via email.
Shakespeare in bits provides animations as well as the text with reading tools to understand Shakespeare. This one works for Romeo & Juliet, but there are also editions for Macbeth, A Mid Summer's Night Dream, and Hamlet. While it's $14.99, it does come under the VPP so it comes as the same cost as the book.
This site offers tools for studying vocabulary. There is also a selection of apps available. What makes this interesting for students is the visuals provided by both images as well as video to give additional cues for learning words.
This app is free until April, though know that some content becomes an in-app purchase. Bookabi allows students to create their own storybooks with 2D and 3D characters. They can upload their own photos and pictures plus save and share their final projects.