Using the iPad in the elementary Language Arts classroom
Whether it is one iPad or many, this page is dedicated to the use of the iPad in the elementary school Language Arts classroom. We have our ideas, but we'd love to hear yours. Click HERE to email us your great ideas for integrating the iPad into your middle school Language Arts classroom. To download the apps, simply click or press on the name or the picture and it will take you directly to the app store!
My Spelling Test Free ***Free***
This is an app that will help you, as the teacher. While you are giving your post test on Friday, you can record it as you go. Then on Monday, anyone that was absent can take the test, have it scored automatically, and then email the results to you! |
iBrainstorm ***Free***
iBrainstorm is a sticky note app. This is a great app for collaborating. It can be used it to generate thinking maps in small groups to increase engagement. |
Idioms Lite ***Free***
Idioms Lite is a quiz that tests your students in a multiple choice fromat to find out how many idioms they know. Students can work in pairs to test each others knowledge as well. |
QuickVoice Recorder ***Free***
This app can be used to record student timed fluencies. Fuencies can be emailed for easy access in iTunes and are then ready to be used at parent/teacher conferences. |
Keynote ***$9.99***
This app is worth the money. Anything you can put on a brace map or a flow map you can put in a Keynote presentation. Students add pictures and transitions to make a more appealing presentation! |
iMovie ***$4.99***
Have students create movie trailers demonstrating the setting, characters, problem, and main idea of a story they have read. Students can also make short videos comparing commonly missed used verbs or even homophones or homographs. |
ComicLife ***$4.99***
ComicLife is a great tool to demonstrate grammar and mechanics. Turn your DOL lesson into a comic and have students correct it. Then have them rewrite it in paragraph form. This ensures proper use of quotation marks and has them using more interesting verbs by replacing 'said' with 'replied'. Infernces can be made as well when taking note of end punctuation. |
EduCreations ***Free***
Students can create thinking maps while recording their thinking. When given pictures, they can put a story back into the correct chronological order and retell the story aloud using correct transition words. Educreations is great for testing the knowledge of the second language learner. Given any diagram or picture, the student can explain their thinking aloud independently for you to look at later. |
Bluster ***Free***
Bluster is a great app to support many essential standards. These include standards that include rhyming words, prefixes, suffixes, synonyms, antonyms, word roots, homophones, and even adjectives. Students can work together or independently to match up three words that fit together in the category they are working on. They only have until the sun goes down! |
Grammar Fun Free ***Free***
This app is actually an iPhone app that can be played on the iPad. Students can work on identifying one to several parts of speech at a time. This is a great app for the second language learner that has been to school in their native country to learn the academic language of the parts of speech. |
