A Guide to Educational iPad Apps
MATHS
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Name
Description
Age
Price
Geoboard
A tool for exploring shapes, perimeter, area, angles, fractions and more. Students
7-16
can practice their skills and teachers can demonstrate new ideas.
free
Base Ten
Blocks
Explores how to represent numbers with blocks, place value, addition,
subtraction and regrouping.
5-9
$4.49
Jungle Time
Kids learn to read and set clocks to the correct time, as well as how to calculate
elapsed time and set elapsed time.
5-9
$4.49
Number
Pieces
Develops understanding of multi-digit numbers – how they are represented,
addition, subtraction, division, multiplication and regrouping.
8-12
free
Number Line
A number line helps students to visualize number sequences and model
strategies for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
5-9
free
Mod Math Pro
Lets you type Math problems right onto the touch screen rather than writing
them out in long-hand. Created for students with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia.
10-16
$7.99
WRITING/WORD PREDICT ION
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Name
Description
Age
Price
Typo HD
A sophisticated word prediction, spelling and text-to-speech app to assist
students in their writing.
9-16
$22.99
iReadWrite
Very comprehensive writing app features text-to-speech, word prediction,
phonetic spell checker, confusable word checker, word and picture dictionary,
import docs.
9-16
$44.99
Name
Description
Age
Price
Nessy Reading
Identifies reading age between 5 and 15, suggests what should be learnt to
improve and features 10 levels and 100 games.
5-15
$2.99
Letter Sounds
1 Pro
Teaches single letter-sound relationships through multi-sensory and engaging
activities. Fully customizable and self-adjusts to each student.
5-12
$24.99
Letter Sounds
2 Pro
Teaches the relationship between letter patterns and speech sounds in a fun and
multi-sensory way. Fully customizable and self-adjusts to each student.
5-12
$24.99
Sight Words 1
Pro
Teaches students to recognize and understand up to 200 pre-loaded Sight Words.
Fully customizable and self-adjusts to each student.
5-12
$24.99
Blending
Sounds 1 Pro
Teaches students to blend single letter sounds together and read whole words.
Fully customizable and self-adjusts to each student.
5-12
$24.99
READING
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SPELLING AND GRAMMAR
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Name
Description
Age
Price
Grammar
Dragon
Answer grammar questions correctly to save the day and defeat the ‘Grammar
Dragon’!
6-11
$1.49
Simplex
Spelling
Uses a proven combination of explicit phonics lessons, spelling rules and a
unique ‘reverse phonics’ approach to improve spelling and reading.
6-9
$7.99
Spellosaur
Students enter their own spelling words and learn them through 4 multi-sensory
games.
6-11
$5.99
Chimp Fu
Games explicitly teach syllables, rules are explained in short videos and learning
strategies provided.
7-12
$4.49
List compiled by Speld Qld November 2015. App prices updated by Speld Qld February 2016.
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ORGANISATION
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Name
Description
Age
Price
Evernote
Helps students to stay organized with voice recorded notes, checklists and is a
great tool for effective research and study.
9-16
free
Kids Calendar
(KC)
KC Is an effective way for young children to keep track of their week and become
more aware of time using a colorful, personalized calendar.
9-16
$4.49
BRAINSTORMING/MIND MAPS
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Name
Description
Age
Price
Audionote
Allows students to take notes which are synced to audio for multi-sensory
learning. Also very useful multi-sensory mind-mapping tool.
8-16
$7.99
Simple Mind
App allows you to brainstorm or structure your ideas in a very easy to design and
read mind map.
7-11
$7.99
Kidspiration
With Kidspiration maps young children create visual maps that build reading,
writing and thinking skills.
5-10
$14.99
Popplet
Lets you study, explore ideas and plan projects by creating mind maps that use
words and pictures.
7-11
$7.99
DYSGRAPHIA (FINE MOT OR AND HANDWRITING)
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Name
Description
Age
Price
Snaptype
Students import or take a picture of a worksheet and can type their answers
instead of writing answers.
7-16
$5.99
Hairy Letters
Teaches the names and sounds of letters of the alphabet with a strong focus on
letter tracing and building fine motor skills.
5-8
$4.49
Dexteria
A set of therapeutic hand exercises (not games) to improve fine motor skills and
handwriting.
4+
$5.99
INTERACTIVE WHITEBOA RD TOOLS
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Name
Description
Age
Price
Explain
Everything
Explain Everything is a design, screen-casting and interactive whiteboard tool
that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, or export almost anything.
8-12
$5.99
Screen Chomp
Very simplistic interactive whiteboard tool allows you to Share a great idea...
Explain a tricky concept... Help kids with their homework...
6-9
free
Name
Description
Age
Price
Creative Book
Builder
Dyslexia
Quest
Creative Book Builder enables students to create their own narratives, edit their
stories and publish into iBooks.
This app helps to improve working memory and processing speed – it also
provides a useful snapshot of individual learning strengths and weaknesses.
8-13
$5.99
6-16
$5.99
Prizmo
Prizmo is an OCR reader which allows photocopied worksheets and documents to
8-16
be recognized in a format that students can edit and activate text-to-speech
with. (Use with Claro PDF)
$14.99
Claro PDF
Documents/worksheets can be read back, pen or typed annotations can be
made, sticky notes added and content highlighted. (Use with Prizmo)
$5.99
OTHER
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8-16
All of the apps listed above are available for purchase or download from the app store in iTunes.
List compiled by Speld Qld November 2015. App prices updated by Speld Qld February 2016.
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