Letter Lab

Letter Lab

Are your students struggling to write and recognize their ABCs? Letter Lab will help with that! Letter Lab is specifically designed for apple touch products, included the IPad, IPhone, and IPod. It presents the students with both upper and lowercase letters and provides student with the opportunity to interact with the shapes of the letter. In my classroom, I would use this app when covering the standard ,CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.1. Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet. I would use Letter Lab as a center activity to reinforce the content that had already been taught.

How it works: Letter Lab is creatively designed to let students trace the letters using their finger or a stylus. It also has a real world object associated with each letter. Students trace the letter, and then tap object to hear a voiceover that states the letter and the object. Students can select specific letters to work with using the tab on the side of the screen.

Price 0.99

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/letter-lab/id365981111?mt=8

Word Wizard

Word Wizard 

Word Wizard is an app that allows kids to hear the sound of letters and words using a talking movable alphabet. This app can pronounce and spell check many words. It also has a sentence builder feature that uses a phonics movable alphabet. It has spelling practice with more than 1400 words and you can also add your own words. The app also keeps track of a detailed report so the teacher/parent can see the progress each child is making. This app has won many awards from New York Times to Apple. This app has 4.5 star rating. This app only cost $2.99.

Link:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/word-wizard-talking-movable/id447312716?mt=8