This document provides a list of apps that can be used on iPads for educational purposes. It describes over 30 apps that teach early literacy skills like letters, sounds, spelling, reading, and writing. The apps cover a range of topics including phonics, sight words, storytelling, note-taking, and creative tools. Many apps are free or have lite versions available. The full list of apps provides brief descriptions of the educational activities and skills supported by each app.

1. Apps for Howard Coad’s iPads
http://schools.spsd.sk.ca/curriculum/techyteacher/

2. LetterSchool
Practice essential skills as students play
four games per letter/number.
$2.99

3. ABC Alphabet Phonics
Learn the ABC by sight, sound, and
touch. Touch and find the correct letter.
Free

4. Little Matchups ABC - Alphabet
Letters and Phonics
Recognize and identify uppercase and
lowercase letters. Match letters to letters and
letters to animal photos. Uses sounds of letters
and names of animals.
Free

5. ABC Magic 5 Letter Sound
Matching
Helps strengthen the association of each letter with its
most commonly occurring sound.
Children can choose 4, 6 or 9 squares to work with and
then choose whether they will match pictures to
letters or letters to pictures.
Free

6. ABC READING MAGIC 1 Short
Vowel Words sampler
Experience with letters and sounds to help
build students phonemic awareness skills.
Free

7. Pre-K Letters and Numbers
Understand phonics and build vocabulary
with the bonus of blending common
letters and counting.
Lite version: Free – Full version: $1.99

8. Sight Words by Photo Touch
Learn sight words by sight, sound, and touch.
Free

9. A to Z - Mrs. Owl's Learning Tree
Touch the pictures for sound effects and touch
the upper and lower case letters in each
corner for the correct phonetic letter sounds.
Lite version: Free – Full version: $2.99

10. Alphabet Aquarium School Vol 1:
Animated Letters Puzzle for
Preschool and Kindergarten
Explorers
Explore the shapes and names of letters in
4 different game modes.
Lite version: Free – Full version: $1.99

11. Spelling Bug
Presents each word by displaying a picture and
pronounces the word and presents the letters that are
needed to make the word. Students arrange the
letters in the right order to make the word.
Free

12. Our Story for iPad
Create personalized story books
incorporating pictures, sound, text and
speech.
Free

13. Letter Quiz
Four different games for every stage of
learning; flashcards, identification,
matching and printing.
Lite version: Free – Full version: $1.99

14. Little Story Maker
Add a new story, give the story a name,
add photo, text and record.
The story is ready to be shared.
Free

15. A1 Spelling
Is an easy to use engaging app that help students learn
common spellings. They see a picture and hear the
word and then type the spelling using the on screen
key pad.
Over 150 words in 6 different categories.
Free

16. ABC Spy
Use your camera to capture pictures and
start framing, labeling and organizing them
by their beginning sound.
Lite version: Free – Full version: $1.99

17. abc PocketPhonics
Letter sounds. Handwriting. First words.
Introduces students to each of the key
letter sounds.
$2.99

18. Endless Reader
Learn sight words and their context and
usage with the Endless monsters.
Free

19. Pocket Charts Rhyming Words
Develop language and literacy skills in
learners with this simple rhyming
matching game.
$0.99

20. Rocket Speller
With 5 levels of difficulty, students spell words to fuel
the spaceship and help choose the rocket pieces
needed. Once they have built their custom rocket ship,
they steer it through space to collect stars in an
entertaining mini-game.
Free

21. Montessori Crosswords
Develop reading, writing, and spelling skills by
building words from a set of 320 word-imageaudio-phonics combinations using a phonicsenabled movable alphabet.
$2.99

22. Reading Raven
Help students learn to read with their own
personal reading adventure guide.
$1.99

23. Puppet Pals HD
Create your own unique shows with animation
and audio in real time. Pick out your actors and
backdrops, drag them on to the stage, and tap
record. Your movements and audio will be
recorded in real time for playback later.
Free

24. Sock Puppets
Add puppets, props, scenery, and backgrounds
and start creating your own lip-synched videos.
Free

25. Book Creator for iPad
Create your own beautiful iBooks, right on
the iPad.
$4.99

26. Pic Collage
Create amazing collages using your photos,
fun stickers, text with cool fonts and
frames then share it.
Free

27. Me Books
Me Books presents your favorite children’s
books read by celebrities with the ability
to be re-told by you.
Free

28. ZooBurst
A digital storytelling tool that lets anyone
easily create their own 3D pop-up book.
Free

29. Educreations Interactive
Whiteboard
Turns your iPad into a recordable
whiteboard.
Free

30. Popplet Lite
Explore Ideas: Brainstorming, Mindmapping.
Popplet Lite is limited to just one popplet. The
full version of Popplet ($4.99) lets you create an
unlimited number of local popplets, which are
stored on your iPad.

31. VoiceThread
Create and share conversations around
documents, snapshots, diagrams and
videos. You can talk, type, and draw right
on the screen.
Free

32. Evernote
Lets you take notes, capture photos, create todo lists, record voice reminders--and makes
these notes completely searchable, whether
you are at home, at work, or on the go.
Free

33. Audioboo
Record up to 3 minutes for free and then post
your clips easily to the web.
Free

34. MyScript Memo
Take your notes on the go using your
handwriting and convert them to digital text
that you can export and share with Evernote,
Facebook, Twitter, Gmail or copy/paste to any
other text application.
Free

35. MyScript Memo
Record ideas, voice memos, voice email,
dictation, lists, meetings, classes, or entire
lectures!
Free

36. PaperPort Notes
Combine documents, web content, audio,
typed text as well as hand written notes into a
single document that you can easily organize
and share with anyone.
Free

37. Kidblog
Create and manage Kidblog accounts from your
iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch. Teachers can monitor
blog activity and moderate comments and posts.
Students can easily upload photos and videos
directly from their device.
Free

38. CloudOn
Makes Microsoft Office® (Word, Excel and
PowerPoint) files more accessible and useful
by letting you edit documents, spreadsheets
and presentations from anywhere .
Free