This document provides a summary of the top 10 education apps for teachers. It describes Google Classroom as an app that allows teachers to organize, post, and grade assignments. It also discusses apps like Class Tag for parent communication, Prodigy which makes math fun for students, Epic which provides a digital library of books, and Blending Board for phonics practice in small groups. Other apps mentioned include ClassDojo for behavior management, Spelling City for literacy games, GradeCam for digital grading, Educreations for instructional videos, and Madlibs as a word game review.

1. Top Ten Apps
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Christyn Henderson
Danielle Hudson
Jessica Turner

2. 1. Google Classroom

3. Google Classroom is a great way toorganize, post, and grade assignments. It ispretty user friendly and aligns well with allthe Google Apps. For example, you cancreate a template then select the “Make aCopy for every student” option so astudent can edit their own version and turnit in easily. Google is committed to privacyand keeping data secure. Parents can alsojoin and get summaries of how theirstudents are doing!

4. 2. Class Tag

5. Class Tag is a great parentcommunication app. It has manyfeatures that teachers need includingmessaging, announcements, videos,pictures, library, calendar,parent-teacher conferences sign ups,and more! And completely free! Youcan also earn points to get freeclassroom supplies.

6. 3. Prodigy

7. All students love Prodigy! It makesmath fun and exciting. It is anotherfree app that has big impact!Students create their own character,battle their friends, and completemath problems and task assigned bytheir teacher. Teachers can track theirprogress and how many questionsthey answer each day.

8. 4. Epic!

9. This is the #1 children's digital libraryfor kids 12 and under! Epic offersaccess to over 40,000 high-qualitybooks for kids, learning videos,reading quizzes and more. It hasaudio book options as well forstruggling readers. Kids are sure to findbooks about any topic they’reexcited about!

10. 5. Blending Board

11. This app is great for small groups andintervention time! Blending Boardallows teachers to create a virtualblending board as well as banks ofletter cards and save them so theycan quickly review phonics andfluency skills with small groups withouthaving to worry about organizing andflipping paper cards. The teacher justtaps on a letter and it changes!

12. 6. ClassDojo

13. Class dojo is a wonderful app thatteachers can use to connect toparents and students allowingthem to communicate andreinforce positive behavior withinthe classroom setting. Studentsare able to build their own uniqueavatar. Teachers are able to givepoints for positive behavior.Parents are able to view theirstudents behavior andcommunicate with the teacher.Its a win win for all.

14. 7. Spelling City

15. Spelling City is a great app to usewhen you want your students to workon different ELA skills and strategies.There is a free and paid version. Thefree version offers several of games tolessons for the students. The paidversion has more options for theteacher to utilize. The kids really enjoythe app being able to play games allwhile learning many skills.

16. 8. GradeCam

17. This is GREAT for starting out in thedigital realm of teaching. While youare trying to find or make thatperfect digital form you can keepyour printed versions as you areintegrating those assignments. Thisallows you to SAVE time on gradingas well as sharing and analyzingdata in your PLC meetings.

18. 9. Educreations

19. Educreations is used for learning onthe go! I can create a videooverview for my students who willbe gone for an extended time fromthe classroom so that they are stillbeing taught. This has helped mystudent’s parents with MATH work!They watch my video to be able tohelp their child with work at home.

20. 10. MADLIBS

21. The world’s greatest word game!Fill in the blanks with the properparts of speech to make anincredibly hilarious story for theclass to read. This can be used asa fun review for ELA standards.