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1. ELA Reading App

Subject Area: English Language Arts: Reading
App Title: Sight Words Coach
App Price: Free
Languages: English

Rationale: This app helps students learn to recognize sight words. The app is loaded with the
DOLCH sight words, broken down by grade level. The app reads a word out loud and offers the
student four selections of which is the correct word. The app gives the student positive
reinforcement in the form of stickers for each correct response. The app also has the option to
allow the user to add words that are not already loaded, which allows for unlimited reading lists.

Standards:

ISTE Standards for Students

1a. Empowered Learner: articulate and set personal learning goals, develop
strategies leveraging technology to achieve them and reflect on the learning process
itself to improve learning outcomes

ISTE Standards for Teacher

2d. Design & Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences & Assessments:
provide students with multiple and varied formtive and summative assessments
aligned with content and technology standards, and use resulting data to inform
learning and teaching

New York State P-12 Common Core Standards

Standard Strand: Reading Standards for Foundational Skills K5
Grade: 1
Topic: Phonics and Word Recognition
Item number and statement: 3. Know and apply grade-level phonics and
word analysis skills in decoding words G) Recognize and read grade-
appropriate irregularly spelled words

Ontario Curriculum Expectations

Standard Strand: Reading Standards 1-8
Grade: 1
Topic: Reading with Fluency
Item number and statement:3.1 Reading Familiar Words
automatically read and understand some high-frequency words and words
of personal interest or significance, in a variety of reading contexts
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2. ELA Writing App

Subject Area: English Language Arts: Writing
App Title: Spelling Bee Hangman
App Price: Free
Languages: English
Rationale: This app helps students spell common words by making it a game. Students can play
independently or against another student and play hangman with words they find in their word
families that follow patterns of spelling. This app allows students to practice spelling easy 3-5
letter words in a fun and stress-free environment.

Standards:
ISTE Standards for Students
1a. Empowered Learner: articulate and set personal learning goals, develop
strategies leveraging technology to achieve them and reflect on the learning process
itself to improve learning outcomes

ISTE Standards for Teacher

2d. Design & Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences & Assessments:
provide students with multiple and varied formtive and summative assessments
aligned with content and technology standards, and use resulting data to inform
learning and teaching

New York State P-12 Common Core Standards

Standard Strand: Language Standards K-5
Grade: 1
Topic: Conventions of Standard English
Item number and statement: 2. Demonstrate command of the conventions
of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. D)
Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for
frequently occurring irregular words.

Ontario Curriculum Expectations

Standard Strand: Writing Standards 1-8
Grade: 1
Topic: Applying Knowledge of Language Conventions and Presenting
Written Work Effectively
Item number and statement: 3.1 Spelling Familiar Words: spell some
high-frequency words correctly
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3. ENL/ELL App
Subject Area:
App Title: Duolingo
App Price: Free
Languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Italian,
Portuguese, Dutch, Irish, Danish, Swedish, Turkish, Esperanto, Norwegian,
Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, Welsh, Hebrew, Vietnamese, Hungarian, Greece,
Swahili, Romanian

Rationale: This app acts as a study tool to help students learn a foreign language. Pupils can
choose to take a course in any of the above languages with instruction in their mother language.
The app begins with basic nouns, verbs, and adjectives and builds on these skills to create
conversational phrases. The app sends daily reminders to the students to continue studying and
rewards students progress with badges. The app uses multiple instructional methods both
receptively and expressively to improve students language skills.

Standards:
ISTE Standards for Students
5c: Computational Thinker Students break problems into component parts, extract key
informaiton, and develop descriptive models to understand complex systems or facilitate
problem-solving.

Standards for Teacher

2b. Design & Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences & Assessments:
develop technology-enriched learning environments that enable all students to pursue
their individual curiosities and become active participants in setting their own
educational goals, managing their own learning, and assessing their own progress

New York State P-12 Common Core Standards

Standard Strand: Language Standards K-5
Grade: 1
Topic: Conventions of Standard English
Item number and statement: 1. Demonstrate command of the conventions
of standard English grammar and usuage when writing or speaking: d) use
personal, possessive, and indefinite pronouns

Ontario Curriculum Expectations

Standard Strand: Oral Communication
Grade: 1
Topic: Speaking to Communicate
Item number and statement:2.4 Appropriate Language- choose
appropriate words to communicate their meaning accurately and engage
the interest of their audience
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4. SWD App
Subject Area: Oral Communication/Language
App Title: Let Me Talk
App Price: Free
Languages: English, Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Catalan,
Chinese, Dutch, French, Galician, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romania,
Russia, Spanish and many more

Rationale: This app acts as an oral communication tool for students who cannot verbally
communicate. The app comes loaded with pictures or PECS, when the student selects the picture
of his/her choice the app will speak that word. The app has many icons in the gallery, but if
something is not there, the app allows the user to take a picture of an item, type in word
associated and the app will read that word. The student can create sentences by choosing
appropriate words and then hitting the play button. This app is groundbreaking for students
who cannot verbally communicate, to allow them to be understood by their peers.

Standards:
ISTE Standards for Students
6c. Creative Communicator communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by
creating or using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models or
simulations

ISTE Standards for Teacher

4b. Promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility Address the diverse
needs of all learners by using learner-centered strategies providing equitable access to
appropriate digital tools and resources

New York State P-12 Common Core Standards

Standard Strand: Speaking and Listening Standards K5
Grade: 1
Topic: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Item number and statement: 6. Produce complete sentences when
appropriate to task and situation.

Ontario Curriculum Expectations

Standard Strand: Oral Communication 1-8
Grade: 1
Topic: Speaking to Communicate
Item number and statement: 2.3 Clarity and Coherence: communicate
ideas and information orally in a clear, coherent manner
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5. Content Area #1 App

Subject Area: Mathematics
App Title: Monster Math
App Price: Free
Languages: English
Rationale: This add helps students with basic addition and subtraction. The app has students try
to get past monsters on their way through a course by answering math problems such as what
statement makes 4. Students also must use logic to pick the correct equation at the correct time
in order to get past the monster, there may be several correct answers but some will put the
player in the monsters path. This app uses math to create an adventure for the student.

Standards:

ISTE Standards for Students

1c. Empowered Learner: use technology to seek feedback that informs and
improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways

ISTE Standards for Teacher

2b. Design & Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences & Assessments:
develop technology-enriched learning environments that enable all students to pursue
their individual curiosities and become active participants in setting their own
educational goals, managing their own learning, and assessing their own progress

New York State P-12 Common Core Standards

Standard Strand: Numbers and Operations in Base Ten 1.NBT
Grade: 1
Topic: Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and
subtract
Item number and statement: 4. Add within 100, including adding a two-
digit number and a one-digit number, and adding a two-digit number and a
multiple of 10, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on
place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition
and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method and explain the
reasoning used. Understand that in adding two-digit numbers, one adds tens
and tens, ones and ones; and sometimes it is necessary to compose a ten.

Ontario Curriculum Expectations

Standard Strand: Number Sense and Numeration
Grade: 1
Topic: Operational Sense
Item number and statement: solve problems involving the addition and
subtraction of single-digit whole numbers, using a variety of mental
strategies
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6. Content Area #2 App

Subject Area: Music
App Title: Music Tiles
App Price: Free
Languages: English
Rationale: This app introduces students to the basics of piano playing and exposes them to a
variety of popular and classical songs. Students must tap keys on their screen as they move past
them to create music. Each key is located at different points on the screen signifying its place on
the scale. This app combines fine motor skills, hand eye coordination, and music to create a fun
introduction to piano.

Standards:

ISTE Standards for Students

1c. Empowered Learner: use technology to seek feedback that informs and
improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways

ISTE Standards for Teacher

1a. Facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity: promote, support, and
model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness

New York State P-12 Common Core Standards

New York State does not have standards for a music program
The use of this app develops fine motor control and hand eye coordination so it could be
argued that it assists students with the below standards in being able to have control over
their writing and forming of lettters

New York State P-12 Common Core Standards

Standard Strand: Language Standards K-5
Grade: 1
Topic: Conventions of Standard English
Item number and statement: Demonstrate command of the conventions of
standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. a. Print all
upper- and lowercase letters.

Ontario Curriculum Expectations

Standard Strand: Music
Grade: 1
Topic: Fundamental Concepts for Grade 1
Item number and statement: ELEMENTS OF MUSIC duration: fast
and slow tempi; rhythm versus beat; two and four beats per bar (
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7. Choice App #1
Subject Area: Collaborative Learning across most subjects
App Title: Kahoot!
App Price: Free
Languages: English
Rationale: This app serves as an interactive tool across the classroom. Teachers can generate a
code that allows students to log into an interactive classroom where they can compete with one
another to answer questions. This app allows students to learn collaboratively and for the teacher
to get feedback on individual learners. Typically a teacher can only ask one student to answer a
question at a time, this app allows all students to answer.

Standards:

ISTE Standards for Students

7b Global Collaborator use collaborative technologies to work with others,
including peers, experts or community members, to examine issues and problems
from multiple viewpoints.

ISTE Standards for Teacher

2d. Design & Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences & Assessments:
provide students with multiple and varied formtive and summative assessments
aligned with content and technology standards, and use resulting data to inform
learning and teaching

New York State P-12 Common Core Standards

Standard Strand: Social Studies Framework K-4
Grade: 1
Topic: Comparison and Contextualization
Item number and statement: Identify similarities and differences between
neighborhoods

Ontario Curriculum Expectations

Standard Strand: Social Studies 1-6
Grade: 1
Topic: People and Environments: The Local Community
Item number and statement:B1.2 Application identify some services
and service-related occupations in their community
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8. Choice App #2
Subject Area:
App Title: Quizup
App Price: Free
Languages: English
Rationale: This app allows students to be quizzed on subject matter. Students can choose from
a variety of subjects, as well as create their own quiz. Students play against opponents from all
over the world and raise in ranks depending on their correct answers.

Standards:
ISTE Standards for Students
7a. Global Collaborator: use digital tools to connect with learners from a variety of
backgrounds and cultures, engaging with them in ways that broaden mutual
understanding and learning

ISTE Standards for Teacher

3a. Model digital age work and learning: Demonstrate fluency in technology
systems and the transfer of current knowledge to new technologies and situations

New York State P-12 Common Core Standards

Standard Strand: Science and Technology
Grade: 1
Topic: The Living Environment
Item number and statement: Living things are both similar to and different
from each other and from nonliving things.

Ontario Curriculum Expectations

Standard Strand: Science and Technology
Grade: 1
Topic: Understanding Earth and Space Systems
Item number and statement:3.5 Understanding Basic Concepts describe
changes in the appearance or behaviour of living things that are
adaptations to seasonal changes