Best Educational Apps

Best Educational Apps

Bluster

Breeze through vocabulary building with Bluster!This word matching game develops vocabulary and word understanding for school-aged children, or anyone brave enough to battle the elements.Shine bright in single-player mode as you learn and practice important word skills. Match rhyming words, prefixes and suffixes, synonyms, homophones, adjectives, and more. Collaborate with a friend in team mode.

Sparkle Fish

SparkleFish is a hilarious audio story completion game that will have you laughing uncontrollably.

With SparkleFish you can record creative words in your own voice for playback inside surprising, ad-lib stories. If you enjoy Mad Libs, then you’ll really love SparkleFish. It’s fun for all ages, species, individuals, groups, etc.* Record your voice to complete each story.

MadLibs

The world’s greatest word game is back with an all-new look! Fill in the blanks and be the funniest person in the room!

• 21 free Mad Libs stories with new free content added all the time• New swipe gestures make creating stories faster and easier• Kid-friendly interface• No 3rd party advertising

Phonics Genius

One of the best ways to rapidly learn how to speak, read, and recognize words is through phonic awareness. This app is specifically designed to help students recognize and distinguish words by sounds.This app is loaded with content. We are talking over 6,000 professionally recorded words carefully grouped into 225 categories by phonics.

Sentence Builder

A fun new sentence builder app is designed to learn about words, sentences, pronunciation, grammar, and punctuation.The ONLY sentences app that can be fully customized with your own pictures, words and sentences. We worked closely with teachers, parents and kids to design and test this app. Features:•Sentences •Sight Words •Vocabulary •Grammars •Punctuation •Pronunciation •Teacher approved content

Jumbled Sentences 1,2, and 3

Jumbled Sentences' series is designed for beginners to improve their writing skills. This app offers an easy and interactive way for beginners to learn the word order in a fun way. 'OK' button allows you to do self-checking on your own and get the correct answer without anyone's help.

Story Creator

Can add text and audio recordings with every page• Supports text highlights - which makes is it easy for kids to learn how to readIt's super easy to share stories with others and copy stories across devicesShare stories via email with one click. Kids love looking at pictures of familiar faces and places. Kids love hearing stories in mommy's or daddy's voice. Kids love hearing stories of their own adventures. Kids love hearing their own voice too• Kids love drawing on pages and personalizing their stories• Older kids will love how easy it is to create their own stories

Toontastic!

iTunes - App Store Hall of Fame NY Times - "Top 10 iPad Apps"

Lights, Camera, Play! Toontastic is a creative storytelling app that enables kids to draw, animate, and share their own cartoons with friends and family around the world.

Adobe Voice

*** Featured by Apple as one of the Best Apps of 2014 ***App Store Editors’ Choice. #1 Best New App. “One of the simplest, most creative, most joyous apps ever written.” —David Pogue, Yahoo! TechVoice helps you create stunning animated videos in minutes. No filming – just talk to tell your story. Pick from over 25,000 beautiful iconic images to show your ideas and Voice automatically adds cinematic motion and a soundtrack. Persuade, inform and inspire anyone online. Make an impact.

ChatterPix

Grab your camera! Let’s ChatterPix! Chatterpix Kids can make anything talk -- pets, friends, doodles, and more. Simply take any photo, draw a line to make a mouth, and record your voice. Then share your Pix with friends and family as silly greetings, playful messages, creative cards, or even fancy book reports.

Sock Puppets

Sock Puppets lets you create your own lip-synched videos and share them on Facebook and YouTube. Add Puppets, props, scenery, and backgrounds and start creating. Hit the record button and the puppets automatically lip-synch to your voice.

Word Wonderland and Grammar Wonderland

Sort out the right path to guide this friendly frog through the pond.
Hop, eat, and shake your way to word sorting mastery. Who knew word sorting could be so much fun?

In the never-ending quest to make grammar learning and practice fun, this app delivers a way to engage students in grammar review by participating in a trio of games that test parts of speech recognition.

Phonics Genius

Over 6,000 words grouped by phonics sounds. This app is awesome to teach phonic awareness!One of the best ways to rapidly learn how to speak, read, and recognize words is through phonic awareness. This app is specifically designed to help students recognize and distinguish words by sounds.This app is loaded with content. We are talking over 6,000 professionally recorded words carefully grouped into 225 categories by phonics.

Explain Everything

ANIMATE YOUR THINKING
"Explain everything is a stunning peek into a cutting edge new paradigm of communicating…”*
• Create slides using an infinite canvas, use a laser pointer, draw in any color, add shapes, text,
math equations, videos, images and audio files
• Rotate, move, scale, flip, copy, paste, clone and lock any object added to the stage,
• Record everything you do within the app (even yourself while using the front-facing camera)
to create high quality, creative and valuable content for others to learn from!
ENJOY A VARIETY OF IMPORT AND EXPORT FEATURES**
"if your document is any major format and in the cloud or on your device, it can be imported into Explain Everything."
• Compatible file types for import include: PDF, DOC, PPT, XLS, RTF, TXT, HTML, KEYNOTE,
PAGES, NUMBERS, JPG, BMP, PNG, GIF, MP4, MOV, MP3, M4A, WAV, AAC and more
• Export as MP4, MOV, PDF, PNG, XPL (project file),
• Use a variety of import and export destinations including Evernote, Dropbox, GDrive,
OneDrive, Box, WebDAV, Airdrop, Mail, iMessage, and more

EPIC! FOR EDUCATORS
Epic! is absolutely free to elementary school teachers and school librarians in the US and Canada. A favorite with teachers and students around the country, Epic! brings access to unlimited children's literature into every classroom. Epic! encourages young readers with badges and rewards, while letting teachers assign books and track individual reading progress.

THE EPIC! LIBRARY
Epic!’s award-winning service includes a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction books from leading publishers such as Scholastic, National Geographic, HarperCollins, Macmillan and many more. With over 10,000 books available now and many more titles added each week, Epic! has been called the “Netflix of kids' books” – it's an unlimited library your kids can take anywhere!
Well-known books and series include Fancy Nancy, Flat Stanley, Warriors, Rainbow Magic Fairies, The Chronicles of Narnia, Disney’s Frozen, Ramona, Batman, Goosebumps, Clifford, A Series of Unfortunate Events, National Geographic Kids, Goodnight Moon, The Berenstain Bears, Big Nate, and many more.
The Epic! library contains everything from picture books to chapter books, early readers, audiobooks, “read to me” audio books, comic books, graphic novels, non-fiction titles, educational books, and junior novels.