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For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store\nSave web pages for later offline reading, optimized for readability on your iPhone or iPod touch's screen. Featured by Apple and critically acclaimed by top blogs, newspapers, and magazines!\n\nGreat for long articles and blog posts that you find during the day and would like to read, but don't have the time when you find them. Save with Instapaper, then read later when you're commuting, in a meeting, or waiting in line.

APPLE DESIGN AWARD WINNER 2011! One of only 50 apps in the App Store Hall of Fame, Pulse is a beautiful application that makes reading news fun and engaging. Pulse takes your favorite websites and transforms them into a colorful and interactive mosaic. Tap on an article to see a clean and elegant view of the news story. Save stories for reading later across all platforms or sync them with Instapaper, Read it Later and Evernote. Sharing a story via Facebook, Twitter and email is as easy as two taps.

"Auryn, Inc. Promotes National Reading Month by Offering Complimentary Children's Storybook Apps During the Month of March"

Description and useful resources on how the K12 timed reading app can be used to improve a child's reading fluency skills.

"apps, has become a very valuable tool. With my iPad I can read and fill out a PDF using text-to-speech, read a book with Voice Dream Reader, or map out my ideas with Inspiration Maps."

for iPhone, iPod touch (2nd generation), iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), and iPad on the iTunes App Store\n\nTalking & Spelling Alphabet Flashcards Kids Games \nDeveloped by a group of parents - the app mimics and automates how they would go over each flash cards with their own children, focusing in on the alphabet phonetics, spelling, reading, and sounds.\n\nThe word spellings, letters, sounds, and images in this game reinforces associative learning which may aid in early brain development in young kids and may help your child get a head start in reading.

Side by Side is a multiple-window reader/browser with offline reading and note taking capabilities. It turns the iPad into multiple resizable reading devices working in parallel. You can browse webpages, download files, read documents, or take notes on each split screen. When reading something on the iPad, e.g. a webpage or a PDF document, you might often need some handy tools on the side, e.g. a dictionary, a notepad, your email inbox, your facebook updates, an IM tool to chat with your friends, or a youtube video with your favorite background music. This app provides you plenty of possible ways to organize your beautiful iPad screen.

For iPad for iPad on the iTunes App Store\nLearning over 300 Dolch Sight Words or "High Frequency" Words will help your child learn to read better, and in most schools, it is a requirement for the kids to know these without sounding them out.\n\nThe POWER in this learning tool is the ability to change the setting to fit your child's learning level and style and design to grow with your child. Use this to design your own custom learning lesson plans.

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store\nPractice letter name recognition and sound-letter association in iKnowthat's Phonics - ABCs! Based on the popular children's learning site, iKnowthat.com, iKnow Phonics-ABCs uses engaging animation and sound to make learning the names of letters and the sounds they represent fun! Each animation, accompanied by a child voice-over, reinforces the sound a letter makes. Choose from three related activities: Letters, Letter Match, and Letter Search. Earn completion certificates to track progress. Fully develop early reading skills using the other four iKnow Phonics apps.

Teaching about sound in the classroom used to involve lots of fiddly bits of kit such as Signal Generators and Decibel Meters that would cost a lot of money and only get wheeled out once a year. Thankfully if you have an iPhone or iPad you can replace quite a bit of that kit with a couple of handy apps which are either free or relatively inexpensive. Read more http://www.whiteboardblog.co.uk/2013/01/ipad-apps-for-teaching-about-sound/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+TheWhiteboardBlog+(The+Whiteboard+Blog)

" Greg Kulowiec, who I have done some iPad workshops with in the past, wrote up a fantastic set of directions on using the Google Drive iPad app to have students create portfolios. You can read Greg's complete post on the topic here. The how-to video that he made I have embedded below."

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I read iLearn Technology's tutorial on making your own capacitive stylus using common office supplies, I had to give it a try. Provided that you can swipe the materials from your office supply closet, the pen costs nothing. With a few basic tools, you can make it in minutes.

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store\nLearn something different each day with the free BrainPOP Featured Movie App for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch! After watching BrainPOP's daily animated movie, you can test your new knowledge with an interactive quiz.\n\n\nBrainPOP's award-winning educational resources are used by millions of students in thousands of schools across the U.S. and worldwide.\n\nOur topics cover Science, Math, Social Studies, English, Technology, Arts & Music, and Health - everything from Carnivorous Plants to Abraham Lincoln! All movies are captioned, making it easy to read along.

MindSnacks Spanish is a one-of-a-kind language learning game\n\n * Six games covering vocabulary, reading, writing,\n listening and conversation skills\n * 50 Spanish lessons designed by Ivy League instructors\n * 1400+ words and phrases to master\n * 1400+ native speaker audio clips\n * Full library of images\n * Personalized learning algorithms to maximize retention\n * 16 fun challenges to keep you motivated\n * Keeps track of your high scores and learning progress

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store\n\nLearn Talking & Spelling Flashcards Kids Games Free Lite \n\nThis FREE app makes it fun and easy to go over the alphabet phonetics, spelling, reading, and sounds.\n\nThis ABC app provides a unique interactive teaching tool that makes learning letters fun.

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store\n\nGet 13 great educational apps for FREE with Kid Apps: 13 in 1. This application was designed with the help of parents just like you.\n\nAre you looking for the perfect application to teach your young children fundamental reading, writing and math skills? Well, look no further, because Kid Genius: 13 in 1 brings the classroom to the palm of your hand. We have designed the perfect app for both parents and kids.\n\nKid Genius: 13 in 1 contains 13 different applications ranging from math games, over 600 flash cards, interactive tracing drills and more! You will find the following full featured kid apps inside:\n\n1) Kid Genius: ABCs, Counting and Words\n2) Flash Math\n3) Sight Words\n4) Math Whiz\n5) Math Match\n6) Music Instruments\n7) Around the House\n8) The Outdoors\n9) My Pets\n10) At School\n11) The Zoo\n12) At The Farm\n13) Food Words

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store Letter sounds & writing + first words abc PocketPhonics Lite is the FREE, cut-down version of abc PocketPhonics so you can try before you buy. It's very quick to download, so why not spend a few minutes trying it out? Only abc PocketPhonics follows the "synthetic phonics" teaching method - the keystone of the "Reading First" part of the "No Child Left Behind Act". And makes it fun."