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Description
Blio helps enhance the reading experience by bringing books to life. It offers a text-to-speech voice or audiobook that highlights the words as they are read. You can also look up unknown words by searching Google and Wikipedia without leaving the book. Blio allows the book to be view as single page, double page, flowed view or speed reading view. You can read books available on Blio or you can add free books from other formats. This app is Free. Reading Rainbow is a library that contains 150 fiction and nonfiction books that can be customized to a childs interest. Each book has an audio storytelling option. It also contains video fieldtrips and interactive activities. There is a reward program to motivate reading and track progress. This app is Free with a monthly subscription of $9.99.

App Users
Blio is an app that is meant for everyone. Highlighting specific words and the serial presentation view is beneficial for people with reading disabilities. It is also valuable for the visually impaired because they can use all of the functions offered. Blio would be easy to adapt to any classroom since it meet the needs of all students. Students who are experiencing difficulties with fluency and comprehension would benefit from this app. This app is very engaging because of its multimedia capabilities. It could be used for students experiencing difficulties with fluency and comprehension. This app could be used in the regular classroom as a center, the Early Literacy Program, the learning center and resource.

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eReading ToGo is an app that helps children learn to read by starting with single words and progressing to couplets, phrases and sentences. This progressive, systemic approach is effective for all children. Words are shown individually as large flashcards and there are three games per word in order for a child to progress to the next word. Activities continue to build on words learnt until the child has learned a complete sentence. This app reinforces the learning process. This app is free. Simple Mind+ is an app that can enhance attention. It can also help enhance auditory and visual memory, visual processing, expressive language and reading comprehension. It allows students to organize their ideas quickly into word and concept maps. It allows sharing of ideas through email and webpages. It is a strategy that visually represents concepts and ideas. This app is free.

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Sound Curtain is an app used noise masking. It has three options; white noise, rainfall and harmonic tones. The rainfall and harmonic tones can also function as a self-regulating app as it aids in relaxation. It can help focus attention and enhance auditory processing by cutting out background noise. The cost of this app is 99

This app can be used in the Sensory processing classroom anytime a classroom Auditory teacher wants to minimize background noise. (ie. When the beginner band is practicing next door.) It can be used anytime for a student who is having difficulty attending to task because of auditory distractions. It can be used for any student who has noise sensitivities. The relaxation sounds can be used for students who need help with self-regulating and calming. This app can be used in any classroom or specialists classroom where you need to create a quiet workspace. Flashcards has several categories This app is very useful in a Context Processor to aid in word recognition. This classroom where a student is a Retrieval app has the capability of second language learner. French Recall changing languages. Finally Immersion classroom or for ESL Active Working something for French Immersion students in an English classroom. It Memory teachers that require translation! can also help early or emergent Vocabulary It is interactive and has the readers who are having difficulty Vocabulary Retrieval ability to record your own sound with word recall. It is a great files for words or letters. There activity for centers. Individual are hundreds of audio files with students needing enrichment or sound effects, music, and words. remediation can also use this app. There is also a word match and It is a great differentiation tool. spelling game. This app is free

Alarmed provides reminder alerts with a repeat option. There is also a timer that allows custom messages, count down/count up and pause. It provides an alarm clock that plays iTunes playlists and built in melodies. It is simple and easy to use. It contains full VoiceOver accessibility support and is a universal app. This app is free.

This app is a good to use for reluctant readers in the classroom. They could read for a period of time indicated by the timer and there could be a reward at the end. With the pop up timer option, there could a count down letting the reader know how much time is remaining. This would be for students who have trouble focusing. This app lets them know how much linger they need to stay on task. This app is good for students who have difficulty maintaining focus while reading. These stories are high interest information texts that with 91 choices of animals are sure to capture any readers attention. The immediate feedback option will also help to keep students engaged and focused.

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Reading Comprehension Grades 2-3 app presents 91 short, concise animal stories in an engaging format that leads to success. Interesting stories make it easy for children to try, practice and improve reading comprehension skills. It provides immediate feedback that helps to keep students on track and focused. This app is a series that encompasses the early grade levels. The cost of this app is $1.99.

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Super Why is a series of four games that was developed in partnership with PBSKids. It enhances letter recognition, identifying letter sounds, tracing letters, writing words, rhyming words, and selecting words to completing sentences. There is also a rewards feature for those extrinsically motivated students. This cost of this app is $3.99.

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