App Title: Raz-Kids

App Price: $109.95 for a family membership per year OR Free through your
teacher’s account.

Subject Area: ELA Levelled reading program

App Languages: English, French, Spanish

Rationale for Curriculum Use: Raz-Kids is an award-winning website and app where kids can
go to read anytime they like. This app caters to students in kindergarten to grade 5. Teachers
can easily keep track of students’ progress with their online tracking and assessment capabilities.
Raz-Kids helps students to be connected learners and develop their literacy skills further.

ISTE Educator Standards: Facilitator - Educators facilitate learning with technology to

support student achievement of the ISTE standards for Students.
• 6a- Foster a culture where students take ownership of their learning goals and outcomes
in both independent and group settings.

ISTE Student Standards: Empowered Learner - Students leverage technology to take an active
role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by
the learning sciences.
• 1a- Students articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging
technology to achieve them and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning
outcomes.

NYS P-12 Common Core/NYS Standards:

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL2.1.
o Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to
demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.

Ontario Curriculum Expectations: Strand: Reading Grade 1 - Comprehension Strategies

• 1.3- Identify a few reading comprehension strategies and use them before, during, and
after reading to understand texts, initially with support and direction (e.g., activate prior
knowledge by brain – storming about the cover, title page, or topic; describe how they
visualize a character or scene in a text; ask questions about information or ideas presented
in a text: I wonder if…? What if…?; identify important ideas in a text)
 App Title: Duolingo

App Price: Free for basic account OR $9.99 USD/Month for Duolingo PLUS
account.

Subject Area: ELL/ENL

App Languages: English, Arabic, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian,
Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified
Chinese, Spanish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.

Rationale for Curriculum Use: Duolingo is a language learning platform and can be done
through the Duolingo website or app. It can teach you over 23 languages and teachers can track
student progress through the Duolingo dashboard. The premise behind Duolingo is that is can
teach you a language in as little as 5 minutes of practice a day. This app would benefit ELL
students in a classroom or students who are beginning to learn a new language in the school
system (i.e. French or Spanish classes).

ISTE Educator Standards: Analyst - Educators understand and use date to drive their
instruction and support students in achieving their learning goals.
• 7a- Provide alternative ways for students to demonstrate competency and reflect on their
learning using technology.

ISTE Student Standards: Empowered Learner - Students leverage technology to take an active
role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by
the learning sciences.
• 1c- Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice
and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.

NYS P-12 Common Core/NYS Standards:

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.1.6
o Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to,
and responding to texts, including using frequently occurring conjunctions to
signal simple relationships (e.g., because).

Ontario Curriculum Expectations: Strand: Language Grade 1 - Active Listening Strategies

• 1.2 demonstrate an understanding of appropriate listening behaviour by using active

listening strategies in a few different situations (e.g., listen without interrupting and wait
their turn to speak; show that they are paying attention and are interested by looking at
the speaker, nodding, or asking relevant questions)
 App Title: Prodigy Math Game

App Price: Free to play or implement. Premium Family Membership $8.95 per
month or $59.88 per year.

Subject Area: Mathematics

App Languages: English

Rationale for Curriculum Use: Prodigy covers a wide variety of content from grades 1-8.
Teachers can monitor student’s progress in real-time through the online dashboard. This app
allows students the ability to problem solve and make self-corrections. Students are able to learn
at their own pace and teachers can see where students need support.

ISTE Educator Standards: Facilitator - Educators facilitate learning with technology to

support student achievement of the ISTE standards for Students.
• 6b- Manage the use of technology and student learning strategies in digital platforms,
virtual environments, hands-on makerspaces or in the field.

ISTE Student Standards: Empowered Learner - Students leverage technology to take an active
role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by
the learning sciences.
• 1c- Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice
and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.

NYS P-12 Common Core/NYS Standards:

• CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.O.A.A.1
o Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving
situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing,
with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations
with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

Ontario Curriculum Expectations: Strand: Mathematics Grade 1 Operational Sense

• solve a variety of problems involving the addition and subtraction of whole num- bers to
20, using concrete materials and drawings (e.g., pictures, number lines) (Sample
problem: Miguel has 12 cookies. Seven cookies are chocolate. Use counters to determine
how many cookies are not chocolate.);
 App Title: Scratch Jr.

App Price: Free (Option to make a donation to scratch foundation)

Subject Area: Mathematics, ELA/ENL

App Languages: English, Chinese, German, Japanese, Portuguese, and Swedish

Rationale for Curriculum Use:

This App will teach children to strategize, design projects and problems solve through coding. It
is recommended for students aged 5-7. It is a great App for math and reading. As well students
will learn to use technological devices such as an iPad in groups or independently.

ISTE Educator Standards: Facilitator - Educators facilitate learning with technology to

support student achievement of the ISTE standards for Students.
• 6c-Create learning opportunities that challenge students to use a design process and
computational thinking to innovate and solve problems.

ISTE Student Standards: Innovative Designer - Students use a variety of technologies within a
design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful or imaginative solutions.
• 4a-Students know and use a deliberate design process for generating ideas, testing
theories, creating innovative artifacts or solving authentic problems.

NYS P-12 Common Core/NYS Standards:

• CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.NBT.A.1
o Count to 120, starting at any number less than 120. In this range, read and write
numerals and represent a number of objects with a written numeral.

Ontario Curriculum Expectations: Strand: Mathematics Grade 1 – Counting

• Count forward by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s, to 100, using a variety of tools and strategies
(e.g., move with steps; skip count on a number line; place counters on a hundreds chart;
connect cubes to show equal groups; count groups; of pennies, nickels or dimes)
 App Title: iMovie

App Price: $4.99 and free on some devices.

Subject Area: Cross-curriculum

App Languages: English, Arabic, Catalan, Chinese (Hong Kong), Croatian, Czech, Danish,
Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian,
Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified
Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.

Rationale for curriculum use: An easy-to-use video-making and editing app, iMovie allows for
students and teachers to make information more engaging and to creatively display new learning.
iMovie can be used in a variety of ways such as recording field trips or interesting places for
informational purposes, showcasing new learning in creative ways, for digital story telling and
for sharing new knowledge with others.

ISTE Educator Standards: Designer – Educators design authentic, learner-driven activities

and environments that recognize and accommodate learner variability.
• 5b: Design authentic learning activities that align with content area standards and use
digital tools and resources to maximize active, deep learning.

ISTE Student Standards: Creative Communicator - Students communicate clearly and express
themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and
digital media appropriate to their goals.
• 6b- Students create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital
resources into new creations.

NYS P-12 Common Core/NYS Standards:

• ELA- Presentation of knowledge and Ideas

o 2SL5 Include digital media and/or visual displays in presentations to clarify or
support ideas, thoughts, and feelings.

Ontario Curriculum Expectations: Strand: Language - Oral Communication Grade 2

• 2.3: Communicate ideas, opinions, and information orally in a clear, coherent manner
using simple but appropriate organizational patterns.
• 2.7: Use a few different visual aids, (e.g., photographs, artefacts, a story map) to support
or enhance oral presentations
 App Title: Splash Math

App Price: $240/year per classroom for a premium subscription. Flexible pricing
options available for schools. Free apps available with limited content.

Subject Area: Mathematics

App Languages: English

Rationale for curriculum use: This award-winning app is an interactive and engaging tool for
children in Kindergarten to grade 5. It can be used on different devices such as desktops and
iPads and provides a brilliant way for practicing curriculum expectations. Divided into lessons, a
child is able to navigate at his or her own speed moving onto something more challenging when
ready. In addition, the app provides a wonderful dashboard for teachers and parents to identify
strengths and areas that need improvement.

ISTE Educator Standards: Facilitator – Educators facilitate learning with technology to

support student achievement of the ISTE Standards for Students.
• 6b- Manage the use of technology and student learning strategies in digital
platforms, virtual environments, hands-on makerspaces or in the field.

ISTE Student Standards: Empowered Learner - Students leverage technology to take an active
role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by
the learning sciences.
• 1c: Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their
practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.

NYS P-12 Common Core/NYS Standards:

• Mathematics - Operations and Algebraic Thinking Grade 2

• NY-2.OA 1b- Use addition and subtraction within 100 to develop an understanding of
solving two-step word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from,
putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions.

Ontario Curriculum Expectations: Strand: Mathematics - Operational Sense Grade 2

• solve problems involving the addition and subtraction of two-digit numbers, with and
without regrouping, using concrete materials (e.g., base ten materials, counters), student-
generated algorithms, and standard algorithms.
 App Title: The Sounding Out Machine- Assistive Reading Device

App Price: $3.99

Subject Area: Cross-curriculum/Special Education

App Languages: English

Rationale for curriculum use: A useful app for all children, in particular those that struggle
with decoding and reading. The app helps children to decode difficult words and models how to
sound them out. Furthermore, it teaches students how to chunk the word into syllables, how to
blend phonemes together, etc. The app has a variety of modes which allow students to simply
take a photo of the page and isolate a word, upload pages in an image gallery or type in difficult
words.

ISTE Educator Standards: Designer - Educators design authentic, learner-driven activities and
environments that recognize and accommodate learner variability.
• 5a- Use technology to create, adapt and personalize learning experiences that
foster independent learning and accommodate learner differences and needs.

ISTE Student Standards: Empowered Learner - Students leverage technology to take an active
role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by
the learning sciences.
• 1c- Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their
practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.

NYS P-12 Common Core/NYS Standards:

• ELA - Phonics and Word Recognition Grade 2
• 2RF3: Know and apply phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

Ontario Curriculum Expectations: Strand: Language – Reading Grade: 2

• 3.2: Predict the meaning of and quickly solve unfamiliar words using different types of
cues, including:
• Semantic (meaning) cues (e.g., familiar words, phrases, sentences, and visuals
that activate existing knowledge of oral and written language).
• Syntactic (language structure) cues (e.g., word order, language patterns,
punctuation).
• Graphophonic (phonological and graphic) cues (e.g., letter clusters within words;
onset and rime; common spelling patterns; words within words; visual features of
words such as shape or size).
 App Title: Write About This

App Price: $3.99 (There is a free “lite” version)

Subject Area: ELA/Social Sciences/Science

App Languages: English

Rationale for curriculum use: Write About This is a writing app that inspires students to start
writing. With hundreds of visual, text and voice prompts, it challenges writers to think critically,
be creative, etc. Teachers and students can search for categories, specific prompts or upload their
own prompts to suit a learning unit. There are different levels of complexity. In addition,
students can read and record their writing and their work can be shared with others via e-mail.
This app is multi-user friendly and will save work by author making it an effective tool for
assessment.

ISTE Educator Standards: Facilitator - Educators facilitate learning with technology to

support student achievement of the ISTE Standards for Students.
• 6d- Model and nurture creativity and creative expression to communicate ideas,
knowledge or connections.

ISTE Student Standards: Creative Communicator - Students communicate clearly and express
themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and
digital media appropriate to their goals.
• 6c- Students communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or
using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations.

NYS P-12 Common Core/NYS Standards:

• ELA - Writing Grade 2

•
o 2W1: Write an opinion about a topic or personal experience, using clear reasons and
relevant evidence.
o 2W2: Write informative/explanatory texts that introduce a topic, use facts and other
information to develop points, use content-specific language, and provide a
concluding statement or section.

Ontario Curriculum Expectations: Strand: Language – Writing Grade 2

• 2.1: Form- write short texts using several simple forms (e.g., a friendly letter; a factual,
recount of scientific or mathematical ideas; replacing general words with concrete,
specific words/phrases).