Subject Area: English Language Arts: Reading

App Title: Lexia Reading Core5

App Price: Lexia doesnt publish pricing information but can be
contacted for more information
Languages: English

Rationale: Lexia Reading Core5 provides personalized learning in

foundational reading skills for students of all abilities. The program actually focuses
on six aspects of reading instruction: phonological awareness, phonics, fluency,
vocabulary, comprehension, and structural analysis. Although it's targeted at
kindergartners through fifth-graders, Lexia Core5 could also potentially be used
with older students who struggle with reading. The program assesses students
reading skills, predicts year-end performance on reading tests, and then tailors
recommendations to teachers on how to boost each childs outcomes, including
specific skills that each child should work on.

Standards:
ISTE Standards for Students
Empowered Learner
o 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.
ISTE Standards for Teacher
2a. Design & Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences &
Assessments: Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that
incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and
creativity.
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards
Standard Strand: Reading Standards for Informational Text K5 [RI]
Grade: 1
Topic: Key Ideas and Details
Item number and statement:
o 1.1 Ask and answer questions about key details in a text
o 1.2 Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text
o 1.3 Describe the connection between two individuals,
events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.

Standard Strand: Reading Standards for Informational Text K-5 [RI]

Grade: 1
Topic: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
Item number and statement:
o 1.10 With prompting and support, read informational texts
appropriately complex for grade 1.
 Subject Area: English Language Arts: Writing
App Title: Quill
App Price: Free
Languages: English

Rationale: This app serves as a second pair of eyes for the teacher, and
an instant grammar check for students. While using Quill, students are
given writing prompts (pre-selected by the teacher to coincide with the
current lesson). The students get immediate feedback on any errors and the
teachers get a report on what writing errors the students made, how many attempts
it took for them to get the activity correct and assign specific students specific
activities based on their progress and ability level. It allows the teacher to assess,
learn what the student needs work on, assign and re-assess all within the app.
Standards:
ISTE Standards for Students
Empowered Learner
o 1c. Students 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
Facilitator
o 6b. Manage the use of technology and student learning
strategies in digital platforms, virtual environments, hands-on
makerspaces or in the field.
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards
Standard Strand: Reading Standards for Foundational Skills (Phonics)
K5 [RF]
Grade: 1
Topic: Print Concepts
Item number and statement: 1. Demonstrate understanding of
the organization and basic features of print. A) Recognize the
distinguishing features of a sentence (e.g., first word,
capitalization, ending punctuation).
Standard Strand: Writing Standards K-5
Grade: 1
Topic: Text types and Purposes
Item number and statement:
o 1.1 Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic
or name the book they are writing about, state an opinion,
supply a reason for the opinion, and provide some sense of
closure.
o 1.2 Write informative/explanatory texts in which they
name a topic, supply some facts about the topic, and
provide some sense of closure.
 Subject Area: English as a New Language (ENL/ELL)
App Title: Interactive Alphabet
App Price: $3.99
Languages: English

Rationale: This app serves as a tool for students that are just learning
to read, especially for ELL students. As students learn the words and
letters, they can work with their own frequently used words (like
names or cities) to really make learning relevant and meaningful. Creating the
custom flash cards is easy enough that the children can do it themselves. The range
of skills covered makes it perfect for an elementary classroom with English
Language Learners.
Standards:
ISTE Standards for Students
Empowered Learner
o 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.
ISTE Standards for Teacher
2a. Design & Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences &
Assessments: Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that
incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and
creativity.
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards
Standard Strand: Reading Standards for Foundational Skills (Phonics)
K5 [RF]
Grade: 1
Topic: Phonics and Word Recognition
Item number and statement:
o 3. Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis
in decoding words.
Know the spelling-sound correspondences for
common consonant digraphs.
Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.
Know final -e and common vowel team
conventions for representing long vowel sounds.
Use knowledge that every syllable must have a
vowel sound to determine the number of syllables
in a printed word.
Decode two-syllable words following basic
patterns by breaking the words into syllables.
Read words with inflectional endings.
Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly
spelled words.


Subject Area: Students with Disabilities

App Title: Proloquo2Go
App Price: $249-discounts for educational institutions available
Languages: English, Spanish and French (including regional variants)

Rationale: Proloquo2Go - Symbol-based AAC is an app designed to help

teachers and therapists empower kids who have limited or no speech with an
alternative way to communicate. Assistive technology is an important tool for
children with disabilities to have in the classroom.
Standards:

ISTE Standards for Students

Empowered Learner
o 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.

ISTE Standards for Teacher

Analyst
o 7a. Provide alternative ways for students to demonstrate
competency and reflect on their learning using technology.

New York State P-12 Common Core Standards

Standard Strand: Speaking and Listening Standards K-5
Grade: 1
Topic: Comprehension and Collaboration
Item number and statement:
o 1.1 Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse
partners about grade 1 topics and texts with peers and
adults in small and larger groups.
a) Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening
to others with care, speaking one at a time about the
topics and texts under discussion).
b) Build on others talk in conversations by responding to
the comments of others through multiple exchanges.
c) Ask questions to clear up any confusion about the topics
and texts under discussion
d) Seek to understand and commuicate with individuals
from different cultural backgrounds
 Subject Area: Social Studies
App Title: One Globe Kids-Friends around the world
App Price: $9.99
Languages: Varied

Rationale: One Globe Kids - Friends Around the World is an app as well
as website that centers on "a day in the life" stories told by individual kids from
different countries. Students are introduced to kids in other cultures through these
photo- and audio-based stories. Kids can also hear a bit of each storyteller's
language, record themselves answering related questions, and learn general
geographic and cultural facts about each country. Each story offers audio in four
languages.
Standards:
ISTE Standards for Students
Global Collaborator
o 7a. Students 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
2a. Design & Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences &
Assessments: Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that
incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and
creativity.
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards
Standard Strand: Speaking and Listening Standards K-5
Grade: 1
Topic: Comprehension and Collaboration
Item number and statement:
o 1.2 Ask and answer questions about key details in a text
read aloud or information presented orally or through
other media.
o 1.3 Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in
order to gather additional information or clarify something
that is not understood
Standard Strand: Social Students
Grade: 1
Topic: Geographic Reasoning
Item number and statement:
o 1. Ask geographic questions about where places are located
and why they are located there, using location terms and
geographic representations, such as maps, photographs,
satellite images, and models. Describe where places are in
relation to each other.
 Subject Area: Math
App Title: The Land of the Venn-Geometric Defense
App Price: $2.99
Languages: English

Rationale: This app is a less traditional way to practice math skills

while playing an exciting game. As kids play, they learn about points,
lines, and properties of geometric shapes including isosceles, right, and equilateral
triangles, quadrilaterals, parallelograms, trapezoids, rectangles, squares, and
rhombuses. The game addresses a handful of Common Core math standards, making
it a handy curriculum support tool. As the game progresses, it increases in difficulty
and encourages kids to use various strategies in order to eliminate the monsters.

Standards:

ISTE Standards for Students

6d. Technology Operations & Concepts: Transfer current knowledge
to learning new technologies

ISTE Standards for Teacher

2a. Design & Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences &
Assessments: Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that
incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and
creativity.

New York State P-12 Common Core Standards

Standard Strand: Math-Geometry
Grade: 1
Topic: Reason with shapes and their attributes.
Item number and statement:
o 1.G.1 Distinguish between defining attributes (e.g.,
triangles are closed and three-sided) versus non-defining
attributes (e.g., color, orientation, overall size); build and
draw shapes to possess defining attributes.
 Subject Area: ELA, Math, Social Studies, Sciene
App Title: BrainPOP jr.
App Price: $175
Languages: English

Rationale: BrainPOP Jr. is a subscription-based educational video, game,

and activity site for students in kindergarten through third grade. The main
page is divided into math, language and reading, science, social studies, health, and arts
and technology. First, students choose one of the six main subjects. When they click the
subject, it gets broken into more specific categories. Under each category, individual
video topic pages appear.

Standards:
ISTE Standards for Students
Empowered Learner
o 1c. Students 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
Citizen
o 3b. Establish a learning culture that promotes curiosity and critical
examination of online resources and fosters digital
literacy and media fluency.

New York State P-12 Common Core Standards

Standard Strand: Language Standards K-5
Grade: 1
Topic: Vocabulary Acquistion and Use
Item number and statement: 1.5 With guidance and support from
adults, demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word
relationships and nuances in word meanings. 1.6 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
Standard Strand: Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Grade: 1
Topic: Understand and Apply Properties of Operations and the
Relationship between Addition and Subtraction
Item number and statement: 1.OA.3 Apply properties of operations
as strategies to add and subtract.3 Examples: If 8 + 3 = 11 is known,
then 3 + 8 = 11 is also known. (Commutative property of addition.) To
add 2 + 6 + 4, the second two numbers can be added to make a ten,
so 2 + 6 + 4 = 2 + 10 = 12. (Associative property of addition.)
 Subject Area: STEM (Coding)
App Title: Cork the Volcano-Puzzlets
App Price: Free Puzzlet starter pack: $99.99
Languages: English

Rationale: Cork The Volcano Puzzlets is used to teach coding and

engineering skills to young children, and introduces STEM in a unique way.
The students can play for 15 to 30 minutes at a time and then save their work for later,
making Cork The Volcano an ideal station setup or indoor recess activity, working in
pairs to create their plan, which will emphasize that engineers and programmers
collaborate in teams.
Standards:
ISTE Standards for Students
Empowered Learner
o 1d. Students understand the fundamental concepts of technology
operations, demonstrate the ability to choose, use
and troubleshoot current technologies and are able
to transfertheir knowledge to explore emerging technologies.
ISTE Standards for Teacher
Facilitator
o 6c. Create learning opportunities that challenge students to use
a design process and computational thinking to innovate and solve
problems.
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards
Standard Strand: Next Generation Science Standards
Grade: K-2
Topic: Engineering Design
Item number and statement:
o K-2.ETS1-1 Ask questions, make observations, and gather
information about a situation people want to change to define
a simple problem that can be solved through the development
of a new or improved object or tool.
o K-2.ETS1-2 Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical
model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps it
function as needed to solve a given problem.
o K-2.ETS1-3 Analyze data from tests of two objects designed to
solve the same problem to compare the strengths and
weaknesses of how each performs.