Sumdog is an excellent iPad for educational games in Math, Reading, and Writing. Based on the popular website, Sumdog has student's playing against other student's worldwide to build their skills. The only requirement is signing up on their free website to be able to play the games on an iPad.
Hideout: Early Reading is a wonderful free iOS app for young readers to help them w/ their Reading skills. This is done through a series of educational activities/games that has students trying to sound out words, find the correct letter, word recognition, and more. Also, this game features a wide variety of things that engage young learners, such as animations, music, and more.
Kindoma Storytime is an interesting iOS app that combines "story time" w/ video chat to allow others to read a digital book together. This is really good when wanting to read a story w/ another who is not around (i.e. child, student, etc). The books can be selected by Reading and then are synced together so when a page is turned it does it on both devices. Another great feature is the ability to point or highlight words so that the other person can see what is going on in real time. For example, it's a great way to access student comprehension by having them point to items in the book.
Endless Reader is a fun iOS app for beginner readers working on sight words. This interactive app focuses on the most commonly used sight words and schools and helps reinforce them through the use of animations, puzzles, and sentences.
Sentence Reading Magic is a wonderful free iOS app that I just found out about from Edshelf. This is a great app for beginning Readers that helps them build sentences as well as work on their Reading skills. For building sentences a student has to move the words into the correct position and the Reading section has users reading a sentence (2-3 words) and then tapping on a picture to see if they are correct.
Sight Words & Spelling w/ Pixopop is a free today and an excellent iPad app for teaching young kids how to Read and Spell. This is done through 3 styles of games: flashcards, word challenge (think hangman), and a basic spelling game. What makes this great for education is that a teacher can create their own custom words list to use, and students can even select their own avatar.
Sight Word Hangman is a excellent iOS app for teaching kids Reading, Spelling, and Word Recognition through the use of the game Hangman. However, SWH is a bit different where a user doesn't guess letters, but listens to the word then selects the correct one. As they get one wrong pieces of the person generates on the screen. Best of all a teacher can view all the word lists and even generate a report to see which ones the students got wrong by seeing what they clicked on.
BoomWriter is proud to announce that the Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston are using their cutting edge innovative web-based program to create collaborative stories. This is being done in conjunction w/ BW's Technology Heroes Program. The program brings together enthusiastic educators, local celebrities and corporate sponsors to promote literacy and inspire kids to become master storytellers through collaborative writing projects. The Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston will offer the Technology Heroes Program to members of their Clubs in Boston and Chelsea.