Best of the Best Lists

Are you looking for early literacy apps, tools, and resources that you can use with your students? If so, we have you covered. Check out our list below. Let us know if there are any that we missed.

1000 Sight Words Superhero– Children learn to read and spell the 1000 most commonly repeated words. The app groups these sight words into 50 sets containing 20 words each to avoid flooding the child with 1000 words at once. To avoid unintended repetition, the user can highlight words previously learned and focus on new words or a set of words.

ABC Alphabet Phonics– A free app that teaches toddlers and young children who are learning to speak. By applying various senses (sight, sound, etc.), children can learn the alphabet and a few other optional subjects. Parents can also customize the app using their voice and taking photos of their child’s favorites items to make the experience more stimulating and personal.

ABC Alphabet Phonics: Song– An entertaining learning experience for children new to the alphabet. They learn the name and the sound the letters make when used in words while having so much fun that they do not realize they are learning. Supported on both iPhone and iPad.

ABC Food– Let your children experience the exciting culinary world using their senses of sight, sound, and touch with the award-winning ABC Food app. The app presents numerous photos, videos, and interactive games to teach children to chop, slice, and cook food items. It also expands your child’s vocabulary with about 70+ new words. It comes with a simple, easy-to-use interface. 

ABC Go– Let your children experience the exciting world of vehicles (trucks, cars, trains, etc.) using their senses of sight, sound, and touch with the ABC Go app. Expand your child’s vocabulary with 60+ new words. The app presents numerous photos, videos, and interactive games to teach children to identify different vehicles. It also comes with a simple, easy-to-use interface.  

ABC MAGIC– Help your child master phonology and pronunciation using this app. Children can choose to either match letters to pictures or pictures to letters. This helps them associate letters with their most popular pronunciation. Both the letters and pictures have touch-activated sound features to help children learn and retain what they learn.  

ABC Magnetic Alphabet– Somethings are not fun for children, and learning can be one of them. Solve this problem with the digital magnetic board tailored after the old-school magnetic boards. It allows children to attach colorful pieces (letters, numbers, symbols, and figures) to the board. Suitable for children of all ages.

ABC Magnetic Alphabet Lite for Kids–Teach your children to read and write the alphabet while you play with them. Let them tap into their creativity by placing objects anywhere they want on the board.

ABC Magnetic Board: Alphabet–This app features uppercase English letters and alphabet-shaped puzzles. The standard pack comes with numbers, shapes, symbols, and lowercase letters vocalized in English. In-app purchases are available to add features that enhance the child’s learning experience.

ABC Phonics – Short Vowel Words– Allows growing kids to master phonics by shooting missiles to identify words from the submarine they are navigating. PhonicsOne is especially for kids learning to read; PhonicsTwo and PhonicsThree are available for middle school kids. Children are rewarded with jewels and a mini game upon completion of a level.

ABC Phonics – Rhyming Words–Helps children to master phonics by matching rhyming word pairs. Children are rewarded with jewels and a mini game upon completion of a level. This app also helps children recognize how consonant and vowel placements affect pronunciation, such as in “ch” and “sh.”

ABC Phonics – Make a Word– Provides both phonics and spelling solutions to children who are learning to read. All the words have short vowel sounds. Phonics Advanced is available for older children, and it comes with longer and double vowel sounds. It also helps children recognize how consonant and vowel placements affect pronunciation.

ABC Phonics – Animated– Designed using the expertise of phonics teachers, this app is an excellent introduction to phonics. Letters are written on the screen with animated tracing for the child to follow, and the app pronounces the letters for the child. This combination helps the child build a solid basis to grow.

ABC Phonics – Word Family Tree– Combines phonics, spelling, beginning sound word family phonics, short vowel sounds, and images with many visual enhancements for each word. The app includes a total of 56-word family groups to be used to teach short and long vowels, spelling, and pronunciation using the Montessori Method.

ABC Spelling Magic 1– With ABC Spelling magic, your child learns the sounds letters make and how to use them to form words. The app also teaches the child to segment, which is a vital part of learning to read. The first portion of the app uses a limited number of letters to form words while the second portion contains all 26 letters of the alphabet. The app teaches the child to spell words using three phonetic sounds and short vowel sounds.

ABC Spelling Magic 2– This advanced stage focuses on using consonant clusters to form words. The app also teaches the child to segment, which is a vital part of learning to read. The first portion of the app uses a limited number of letters to form words while the section portion contains all 26 letters of the alphabet.

ABC Spelling Magic 3– The third stage in the series, t This app gives your child the chance to learn 4- to 7-letter word constructions with multiple syllables. It contains nine sections with 108 words to keep your child interested.

Are you looking for apps, tools, and resources that you can use with your students who have Dyslexia? If so, we have you covered. Check out our list below. Let us know if there are any that we missed.

ModMath– ModMath is a free app that helps students who have dyslexia and dysgraphia with their math problems. This app will follow your student or child as they progress, and it constantly offers tips and tricks and guides them every step of the way. Students can do problems on the iPad and then print, save, email, or share their work.

Orange Neurosciences– Orange neurosciences has developed a new product, ReadON, which is designed to provide a better, scalable solution for people with reading difficulties, AD, autism and associated stress, anxiety, depression, and other conditions. ReadON works exceptionally well for children with problems relating to dyslexia, ADHD, ASD, or other learning disorders. These conditions usually affect their ability to retain information leading to poor working memory and reduced executive functioning skills. The app helps adults dealing with stress, anxiety, and depression resulting from lifelong struggles with literacy. It is also useful for those with poor information retention and eye movement control limitations.

Reading Intro by Oz Phonics– Reading intro by Oz Phonics is designed to help anyone with reading difficulties—especially for kids with dyslexia. The app helps the user recognize the sound of any letter with the use of simple, fun tasks. The app introduces users to short vowel sounds, 10 consonant sounds, and up to 15 letter-sound relationships. The app uses a reading system called the Oz Phonics reading system, which includes American and Australian accent options. The current suite of iPad apps covers many of the United States Common Core State Standard Reading specifications.

vBookz PDF Voice Recorder– With vBookz PDF Voice Recorder, students can hear PDF files and books read aloud in 17 languages. Perfect for students with accessibility challenges such as dyslexia or vision problems, vBookz PDF Voice Recorder also allows students to change the pace of reading from 100 to 500 words per minute. The app includes a special font for dyslexic students, the ability to increase the font size up to 30 points, special color themes, and text highlighting. vBookz PDF Voice Recorder can also help students write their own readable PDFs using either speech or typing.

Voice Dream Reader– Voice Dream Reader, has two main functions: to turn text into speech and to assist writers with proofreading their texts. For readers that struggle with dyslexia, vision challenges, or simply those that comprehend better auditorily, Voice Dream Reader can read any text aloud in 30 languages and 186 voices. Words are auto highlighted on the screen to improve comprehension and retention. The user can change the reading speed, highlight or take notes, and change the font size, color, or spacing. To assist writers with proofreading their texts, Voice Dream Reader can help writers find the right words through phonetic and meaning searches (“enuf” brings up the word “enough” and “giant water mammal” brings up “whale”). It automatically creates an outline to help writers structure their documents—reordering sections is as easy as dragging and dropping. And proofreading is as easy as listening. Writers hear their work read aloud and can more easily spot grammar errors, typos, and awkward wording.

Dyslexia Quest– Created and tested at the Bristol Dyslexia Centre, this app is strictly for children who have difficulty with reading despite having normal intelligence (e.g., dyslexia). It simulates a gaming environment when it is, in fact, helping affected kids work on their memory, auditory, and sequencing, which are areas they usually have challenges with. The game features Yeti Master, who explains signs of dyslexia. The game does not support multiplayer mode.

MaxScholar– MaxScholar is a learning platform designed for students with learning disabilities such as dyslexia, ADHD, processing problems, and general difficulty reading. The platform is built as a digitally blended learning environment for developing reading, writing, and comprehension skills. It also teaches math skills with the use of customized software and engaging materials.

ClaroPDF Pro – This is an iOS app that lets you make notes and highlights on your PDF files. PDF files can be read back to you in human-like voices. You can also listen to PDF files in the background while you work on another app (useful for proofreading).

Read and Write –  Read and write is a literacy support tool, which is available for use on iOS, Android, and web devices. Features on this platform are designed to help students with special literacy needs, such as English language learners and students with dyslexia, to develop better reading and writing skills. The tool includes numerous support features such as a dictionary and a translator to aid in skill development.

NaturalReader – NaturalReader is a resource for children with reading difficulties, even those without any learning disability. It works by copying text from any supported source into the tool. The free version works fine on documents, and the paid version allows users to save sound files they create and add NaturalReader to their toolbar. Spell checking, conversation control, and an OCR (Optical Character Reader) functions are available in the paid version.

Are you looking for apps, tools, and resources that you can use with your students who have Dysnomia? If so, we have you covered. Check out our list below. Let us know if there are any that we missed.

Naming Therapy– This app helps people with aphasia and children with special needs to practice important naming and description skills. It was designed for both personal and professional uses by speech-language pathologists. The app contains beautiful images, real voice, and full personalization features with more than 700 words. You can also practice naming with over 400 photographs accompanied by clues. You can customize the tests by adding your photos and hints and assigning appropriate scores. The app keeps a record of which clue led you to choose the correct answer; reports are generated and sent to you via email.

Are you looking for apps, tools, and resources that you can use with your students who have Dysgraphia? If so, we have you covered. Check out our list below. Let us know if there are any that we missed.

ModMath– ModMath is a free app that helps students who have dyslexia and dysgraphia with their math problems. This app will follow your student or child as they progress, and it constantly offers tips and tricks and guides them every step of the way. Students can do problems on the iPad and then print, save, email, or share their work.

Read and Write –  Read and write is a literacy support tool, which is available for use on iOS, Android, and web devices. Features on this platform are designed to help students with special literacy needs, such as English language learners and students with dyslexia, to develop better reading and writing skills. The tool includes numerous support features such as a dictionary and a translator to aid in skill development.

Are you looking for higher education learning management apps, tools, and resources that you can use with your students? If so, we have you covered. Check out our list below. Let us know if there are any that we missed.

Academe Suite – This is a multi-functional platform that provides a combination of LMS, attendance management, video lecture delivery, and institute management system modules. Bulk SMS services are also available for elementary schools, higher education institutions, and banks.

aPlus+ Attendance – This is web-based student attendance tracking software for elementary, higher education, and other learning institutions. It helps to identify at-risk students early using distinct markers such as absenteeism and tardiness. Attendance can be recorded using a variety of options, such as simply tapping on the teacher’s mobile device, automated scanners, or student mobile devices, depending on the situation and options available.

Campus Management System – This is a web-based decision support and information management system for higher education institutions. It provides valuable insights and engagement tools to improve student success in the higher education system. It is an SIS platform that evolves with your students’ needs as your institution evolves. Its analytic tools and detailed reporting help you make informed decisions.

College Office – College Office is a cloud-based student information management system for higher education suitable for smaller institutions and start-ups. It has the registrar, instructor, and student modules designed to address their specific needs. It uses a per-student billing rate, which makes it affordable for small-scale operations.

Are you looking for apps, tools, and resources that you can use with your students who have Dyscalculia? If so, we have you covered. Check out our list below. Let us know if there are any that we missed.

Math Ref– To help students learn math and related subjects, this app combines 1,400 equations and formulas. It can be used in physics, chemistry, science, math, and more. There really is no reason to memorize equations nowadays; instead of writing them down or searching for them every time you need them, Math Ref will keep the formulas you need at your fingertips. The app also includes essential tools such as unit converting, triangle solver, and basic calculators to aid you in doing homework problems.

Reflex– This app offers a potent, adaptive, individualized solution to help a student increase their fluency in math facts, and it includes powerful reporting capability. It is easy to use for educators to use, and it helps them monitor each student’s performance to create the optimal experience for every child.

Curriculum Associates’ i-ready – Online program for grades K-12 makes the promise of differentiated instruction a practical reality for teachers and students. i-Ready combines powerful assessments and rich insights with effective and engaging instruction in reading and mathematics to address students’ individual needs. The adaptive diagnostic provides teachers with actionable insight into student needs and offers a complete picture of student performance and growth, eliminating the need for multiple, redundant tests. The diagnostic results also set a personalized learning path for each student, ensuring they’re working on engaging instruction that matches their unique learning needs.

Edgenuity’s Pathblazer – is a supplemental, online intervention program that helps move struggling learners up to grade-level proficiency in both math and reading. The program prescribes individualized learning pathways with fun, motivating content that addresses skill and concept gaps. Plus, Pathblazer is Common Core and state standards–aligned, so students aren’t just catching up, they are mastering standards. With skills available for students from kindergarten to 8th grade, Edgenuity’s Pathblazer can easily provide students with the targeted instruction they need to close learning gaps, even at the foundational level. All while offering clear and easy-to-read data and reporting so educators can monitor student progress at a glance and quickly step in to offer extra help when it’s needed.

Gooru – Gooru is a learning navigator designed to meet students where they are and help them progress toward their learning goals. On Gooru, users get access to resources such as videos, textbooks, websites, and interactive websites. The content is tailored to focus on subjects such as math, language arts, social studies, and science.

Happy Numbers –  helps PK-5 teachers differentiate instruction and deepen students’ conceptual understanding of math. The product is driven by pedagogy, while supported by technology (and not vice versa). We teach students to think math with elements such as visual modeling, virtual manipulatives, and multiple representations of math concepts to give students the opportunity to explore the meaning behind math, creating connections and developing deep conceptual understanding. Happy Numbers is learner-led, at the same time, integrated into the classroom routines to not be disruptive. While teachers differentiate in small groups, Happy Numbers differentiates with the rest of the class and gives teachers actionable insights about student growth.

i-Ready – This is a suite of CCSS-based diagnostic and instructional tools for math and English. To begin, students take an adaptive placement test. Based on the results, i-Ready creates a personalized instructional pathway for each student. Teachers can let i-Ready function on its own, or they can customize the instructional material offered to each student.

Are you looking for apps, tools, and resources that you can use with your students who have Dysarthria? If so, we have you covered. Check out our list below. Let us know if there are any that we missed.

Speech Blubs– A voice-controlled speech therapy app, Speech Blubs makes learning new sounds and words fun. Created for children with speech delays, apraxia of speech, autism, down syndrome, ADHD, and sensory processing disorders, Speech Blubs has over 1,500 activities. Included in the app are 14 fun sections such as Yummy Time, Sing Along, and This is My Body. To encourage student engagement, Speech Blubs uses facial detection so students can wear funny hats and sunglasses, lets students collect and fill virtual sticker books, and uses candy-shaped rewards so students can unlock humorous content.

Articulate it! Assistive Technologies– A multiplayer app created to help children with their pronunciation. The app contains over 1,000 images selected by a top language pathologist to enhance phonology at the word and phrase levels. Articulate it! is available on various iOS devices, making it convenient for mobile language pathologists, teachers, or parents.

Articulation Games Assistive Technologies– This app includes four entertaining games with a dynamic way of teaching sound production. The games were assembled by professional speech pathologists, and they contain over 40 phenomes arranged in order of sound placement. The app comes with flashcards and professional sound recordings. Children get rewarded for making progress on the game.

Are you looking for document reading apps, tools, and resources that you can use with your students? If so, we have you covered. Check out our list below. Let us know if there are any that we missed.

SmartUp – SmartUp is a learning experience and consultancy platform, helping organizations create a highly engaged learning culture. This system creates bespoke videos, infographics, and animations to engage your learners actively. It also converts your existing training materials (PDFs, PowerPoint, videos, documents, textbooks, etc.) into microlearning modules. It curates’ contents from an extensive list of partners on an ongoing basis.

ClaroPDF Pro – This is an iOS app that lets you make notes and highlights on your PDF files. PDF files can be read back to you in human-like voices. You can also listen to PDF files in the background while you work on another app (useful for proofreading).

Zoho Writer. Zoho Docs is an online file management system with 5GB of free storage. It makes it easy to sync and categorize your files and access them from any computer with internet access. Zoho Show is a slide creation platform that allows you to pitch a project or create a final presentation. You can embed media and live tweets, and sharing is as easy as sending a URL to your audience. Zoho Sheet lets you study data with built-in formulas and easy to use calculations. It creates charts and pivot tables with your data to help find useful patterns. Zoho Writer is an online word editor that allows for easy collaboration. Your final documents are easy to export in a variety of file types, including PDF, HTML, and direct to WordPress.

Are you looking for digital textbook apps, tools, and resources that you can use with your students? If so, we have you covered. Check out our list below. Let us know if there are any that we missed.

Birdbrain Science Digital Textbooks – This app works like an online science textbook written for multiple reading levels. The comprehensive text ensures that every student in the class understands what is being taught. Automatic feedback shows teachers and guardians the amount of progress made and how much work still needs to be done. Teachers can tailor their classes following the Common Core Standards. The text focuses on vocabulary building and assimilation.

Kytabu – A textbook subscription app developed in Kenya. The app provides access to digitalized versions of all Kenyan textbooks from Standard 1 to Form 4 at rates that are affordable for African families. Kytabu uses machine learning to help provide personalized learning for learners. The learners can access educational content that includes books, videos, audios, tests, as well as exams. A great advantage of the app is that it can be used offline. This is a crucial issue in Africa where internet access is limited and often unreliable.

Perceivant– Perceivant is an app that provides hands-on learning experiences for students in higher levels of education through cutting-edge tools that revolutionize the way a group of students learn and live. It offers a fast and secure cloud-based learning and assessment platform. Perceivant is designed to help counter a nationwide challenge to make textbooks more useful and inclusive for students. Perceivant adheres strictly to the HIPAA and FERPA standards.

Vernier Go Direct® Sensors with Graphical Analysis™ 4 – Go Direct® sensors collect real-time data from science experiments and lab work and connect directly to student computers or mobile devices. Each of the 40+ types of sensors offered by Vernier are all-in-one style sensors that come with software. Vernier also produces textbooks, with experiments designed to complement their sensors for Chemistry, Physical Science, and middle school science. All purchases include the free app Graphical Analysis 4, which helps students create real-time graphs of their experimental data.

Are you looking for digital storytelling creation apps, tools, and resources that you can use with your students? If so, we have you covered. Check out our list below. Let us know if there are any that we missed.

30hands– 30hands is a dynamic app that allows anyone with an imagination to tell their story by piecing together images, photos, drawings, and videos from their device. The app can help users explore the creative process of storytelling and innovation. Users can purchase some added functions to enhance the free version; these features are already included in the app’s pro version.

LumieLabs – is Britannica’s K-12 digital storytelling and video-creation platform that shapes a new future for classroom learning. LumieLabs combines curriculum-relevant, project-based video lessons with millions of royalty-free, rights-cleared, fair-use multimedia clips and thousands of audio clips from best-in-class producers and artists for professional-quality content creation. It is the only video product on the market specifically designed to meet K-12 learning objectives, allowing students to become media-savvy creators. LumieLabs allows students to create stories, share them, and engage with their peers’ videos in a safe, controlled environment.

Flowboard– This storytelling and presentation app lets you make side-scrolling publications with photo galleries, text, links, and videos to be shared or used in your presentations. Flowboard allows you to do this right from your phone, iPad, or another device. It’s really entertaining, full of fun, and stylish. You can easily create a picture story or any story by dragging and dropping videos and pictures. You can also enter text and create links for navigation; this app also connects Google Image Search and Cloud Content to all your videos and photos.

Photopeach– This is an online storytelling platform that allows you to use photos, words, and music to produce a slideshow. PhotoPeach enables you to create beautiful slideshows in a few seconds to share with your family and friends. You can add captions and comments to explain your stories further.

Tiggly Stamp Storytelling-Tiggly Stamp Storytelling lets children create seasonally themed scenes using shapes, and then tell stories based on the scenes they created using the tablet’s audio and video recording capabilities. It is designed to develop language, creativity, motor skills, and shape recognition.

Tell About This – Tell About This is an e-learning platform in which kids tell their story after looking at many photos. The photos are often separated into different categories, including family, culture, people, and fun. To tell their stories, kids look at a photo and learn more about it; then, they tap “tell about” to record their observations. For convenience, this recording can be paused, saved, or played after the recording is finished. The app allows the teacher to create unique prompts to educate their students on core concepts.