Apps for Reluctant Readers

Apps for Reluctant Readers

 

Starfall ABC App is an interactive program that works on letter recognition and phonetic skills through videos and animations. 

 

Starfall Learn to read App has 13 different books to choose from with spelling games that they can use for practice.  Starfall is an excellent resource for reluctant readers.  It provides children the opportunity to practice their phonics and phonemic awareness. 

Starfall's website is an excellent resource for students to practice their reading with phonics.

www.starfall.com 

 

Kidspiration is a resource that students can use to strengthen word recognition and vocabulary. Kidspiration works with beginning sounds, listening comprehension and early reading comprehension.

A quote from an educator using Kidspiration.

 "I incorporate visual learning strategies with my students who have ADHD, dyslexia, and autism spectrum disorders. Grouping and organizing using mind maps comes more naturally and creates a multi-sensory approach to learning. Students using Inspiration find writing and learning easier, it is the most effective and direct way for them to get the work accomplished."

http://www.inspiration.com/Curriculum-Integration/Kidspiration

RazKids App is an interactive resource that allows for differentiated reading instruction.  Students can hear examples of fluent readers; students can practice reading skills and check for comprehension through an interactive quiz.  All students especially English language learners, benefit from RazKids.

 

RazKids also has a great website that you can use. http://www.raz-kids.com/ 

Reading Aphasia is an App  that helps students who struggle with reading comprehension.  The App has activities that work on reading comprehension skills for word, phrase and sentence understanding.

 

Montessori Crossword App helps students struggling with phonic combinations when reading.  The App uses picture cues and audio to help with word recognition. 

Word Retrieval helps students with word-finding difficulties.  The app improves the students’ abilities to recall already known words.  The program uses sentence completion, opposite meaning and convergent and divergent naming in flashcard and word challenge games.
 (9.99) 

The Land of Me - Story Time is an interactive story telling app.  The students create their own story by choosing one of three heroes, story lines, and endings (happy, sad, or funny).  The stories are short an simple.  These interactive stories peak the interest of the reading.

   

Brush of Truth is and interactive book App for students between 8-12 years of age.  Students are in control of the ending of the book.  There are 65 decision points and 20 different endings.  The App is interactive and students have more owner ship to what they are reading.  

 

Write to Read App encourages students to read by creating books.  Write to Read makes the connection between letters and sounds.  The student experiments with writing what he or she hears and the App makes the corrections.  Students get to compare what they wrote which is "building the basics to their reading".

 
Read To Kids App is a tool that works on fluency of reading.  Students are the narrator and record the entire story. This App is great for all students and if the correct level is selected all students can experience success.

Phonics Genius is an app that works on phonics and word patterns.  As a teacher you can customize word list for students.  The students can also record their own voice so when they are working with the flash cards they can hear their own voice.

Toontastic is a free app where students get to create their own cartoon and write a story and publish their cartoon. Toontastic is a great tool for students in Junior High that are reluctant to read. 






The See.Touch.Learn. app.is a great app for students that need help with the basic colors, slight words, and it is a great app to practice phonemic awareness skills.  The app allows you to record questions for your students.  You can ask them to point to the object that rhymes with tall. 

Reading Raven target Phonics and Decoding for students that are ages 3 to 5 or for older Students that struggle with these target areas.  The app allows students to record simple sentences which aids in the fluency of reading.

Dr Seuss's ABC readable book app has 3 options Read to Me, Read by Myself, or Auto Play.  The Dr Seuss books are excellent for word recognitions and students love to read these books.

Shmoop is an app that is like Cole’s Notes. It has different books that are used in Junior and Senior high classrooms. It provides story overviews and chapter summaries as well as study questions and quizzes.




Zinio: This is a magazine reader app with most number of magazines available for reading.  You can do text to speech with the zinio app as well.  

Reading For Kids: 100 Ways to Encourage Your Child to Read
This is an app with creative ways to help encourage kids to read. This app offers one hundred ways for parents/teachers to help encourage their children to become life-long readers. Ideas range from spurring on new readers by making a special trip to get their first library card, to inspiring teens by encouraging them to comment on news websites and blogs. 

Infuse Learning is a student response system that has an audio feature.
Breaking down the language barrier in the classroom with differentiated learning.  It is an excellent tool for junior high and senior high classes.  I use it in my Physical Education where, in a lot of cases, students do not have a teacher assistant.  Infuse Learning is a tool that I use with all my students, however students that have difficulty reading can use the audio button to read the questions and answer choices.