Language Arts ...English ... Reading ... Books ... Writing

  1. BulletComic Strip
    .99
    Create your very own comic book page using photos from your camera roll or take new ones in-app. With our fun and unique collection of layouts and caption bubbles, you can create the story you've always wanted to tell. Tag your friends and upload to Facebook, share with friends on twitter and email your creation from your photo album. Your stories, your creation, your ComicStrip.

  2. BulletMy iStory

     $.99

  1. My iStory is your story of a day, a week, a life. Record your story day by day in words, pictures, videos, audio and music. There are days you wish you’d never forget. With My iStory you can be sure you will always remember them, whether it’s a wedding of your daughter, first step of your child, or just a night out with friends or a holiday trip. This easy to use journal helps you to record your everyday ideas, thoughts, photos, podcasts, and videos and wrap them up in an eBook that can be printed or shared with your friends.

  2. BulletLiterary Analysis Guide
    $1.99
    Literary Analysis Guide is an essential tool for anyone studying literature or rhetoric in high school or college. Whether preparing for your Advanced Placement (AP) English Literature and Composition exam or writing a paper for a graduate-level literature course, Literary Analysis Guide will help you on your way.  By arranging the elements of literature graphically around three wheels (poetry, prose, and rhetoric), teachers and students are better able to visualize how the elements of literature develop style and meaning. Click on any of the literary terms listed around the wheels, and a screen appears with a detailed definition of the term, several examples from literature, and additional questions to ask yourself about how that device is employed in the literature you are currently studying. Click on “Figures of Speech” from any of the three wheels, and the “Figures of Speech Wheel” appears, which functions in the same way as the three others.

  3. BulletGrammar Up : Free Edition
    FREE, full version $4.99
    Grammar Up was designed to replicate questions with a business focus commonly found in the popular TOEIC (TM) English proficiency test.  Grammar Up can help learners to improve their grammar, word selection and vocabulary.  Custom timer setting can assist learners to improve response times under exam time constraints.  Research suggests that kids and adults learn most quickly when playing learning games with real-time error-feedback.  Grammar Up provides learners with an opportunity to improve strategies for grammar success.

  4. BulletWord of the Day (All-in-One)
    .99
    Word of the Day by Code Driven is an RSS reader application that displays Word of the Day style RSS feeds from many of the most popular Word of the Day websites.  With this application you can see all the words on one screen. Simply select each word to reveal it's definition. Each Word of the Day RSS feed can be displayed in one of several color themes. And you can hide any of the RSS feeds you would rather not see.

  5. BulletABA Problem Solving Game – What Rhymes?
    .99
    Rhyming is a basic component of phonics and a very important pre-reading skill that prepares young children for spelling and decoding words. Teaching rhyming words in preschool and kindergarten can help set a solid base for reading comprehension later on.

  6. BulletSpellDown Spelling Bee
    $1.99
    SpellDown is the fun way to create spelling bees. It's perfect for learning SAT words, managing your kid's weekly word lists, or mastering words that just give you trouble.

  7. BulletFlashcards Deluxe
    $3.99
    Flashcards Deluxe is an easy to use, yet powerful flashcard app which you can use to study just about anything you want. I use this app for my own Chinese studies, and am constantly improving it to make it better for myself and others.

  8. BulletGrammarPrep: Capitalization
    $3.99
    Is it who or whom? What words do I need to capitalize?  How can I make sure my subjects and verbs agree? Whether you are a student who wants to get better grades on tests and assignments, a professional who wants to communicate effectively in the workplace, or an English-language learner who wants to master English grammar, Pearson’s GrammarPrep app series can help you get your writing where it needs to be.

  9. BulletGrammarPrep: Subjects and Verbs
    $3.99
    Is it who or whom? What words do I need to capitalize?  How can I make sure my subjects and verbs agree? Whether you are a student who wants to get better grades on tests and assignments, a professional who wants to communicate effectively in the workplace, or an English-language learner who wants to master English grammar, Pearson’s GrammarPrep app series can help you get your writing where it needs to be.

  10. BulletQuestion Builder
    $5.99
    Question Builder is designed to help elementary aged children learn to answer abstract questions and create responses based on inference. Extensive use of audio clips promotes improved auditory processing for special needs children with autism spectrum disorders or sensory processing disorders. Audio clip reinforcement can be turned on or off for non-special needs children. Question Builder offers a rich and fun environment for improving the ability to abstract

  11. BulletSentenceBuilder
    $5.99
    SentenceBuilder™ is designed to help elementary aged children learn how to build grammatically correct sentences. Explicit attention is paid to the connector words that make up over 80% of the english language. Sentence Builder offers a rich and fun environment for improving the grammar of all children.

  12. BulletStoryBuilder
    $7.99
    Story Builder is designed to help children accomplish the following educational goals: 1) Improve paragraph formation; 2) Improve integration of ideas; and 3) Improve higher level abstractions by inference. Extensive use of audio clips promotes improved auditory processing for special needs children with autism spectrum disorders or sensory processing disorders. Story Builder offers a rich and fun environment for improving the ability to create a narrative.

  13. BulletLanguage Arts Apps Wiki
    From the Teach with your iPad Wiki: Language Arts apps can cover a wide range of topics. They can be ebooks, dictionaries, document and text editors, and other apps. Ebooks can contain video files or animation to help tell a story. Some ebooks are self readers, and other will read the story to you. There are several variations between self reader and read to you story.

  14. BulletComicLife
    $7.99
    Comic Life, the award winning photo comic creation software, has been redesigned for the iPad. It’s the funnest, easiest and fastest way ever to create photo comics on a mobile device. Your comics come to life with our integrated reader on the brilliant iPad display. It’s simple to get started with full page templates and panel layouts. Bring in photos from Photobooth or your library and use our powerful editing and design tools to get exactly the look you want.

  15. BulletComic Touch
    Free
    Make your photos come alive by giving them the Comic Touch. Add balloon to give your subjects thoughts and words. Add captions to describe the scene of give the photo a title. Share your creations via email or save them back to the Photo Library for even more sharing options.

  16. BulletPhotoComic
    $1.99
    Capture the right moments and be creative with PhotoComic! Create your own comic strip and share with your friends. With various bubbles, layouts and action words you can create what ever you want with PhotoComic. Start by selecting a layout, then add photos to each frame. PhotoComic is easy to use and discover. Each added bubble body and tail is movable. Interaction with every object is possible by double-tapping.You can share your creations with your friends via email, facebook or twitter.

  17. BulletiPads English Language Arts Wiki
    This wiki was created for an iPad workshop at ESSDACK in Hutchinson, KS on October 18, 2011 by Judy Beam and Mary Frazier. You'll notice the pages of this wiki (on the left hand side) are the Common Core Standards. We have placed iPad apps on each page that might help your students learn that concept. There will be overlap - one app may meet more than one standard. Please leave comments, suggest apps, or share your experiences in the discussion tab of the appropriate page.

  18. BulletSchmoop
    $1.99 per book
    Literature, Poetry, Civics, History, Music, and more), Story overview & chapter summaries, Analysis of important quotes, Plot analysis, Character analysis, Themes and how they come into play in the story, Analysis of symbolism, genre, tone, style, and touchy-feely stuff, Study questions, Quiz-o-Rama

  19. BulletSuper Kids
    .99
    has been my go-to website for reinforcement dittos for years.  Now they have a vocabulary app for grades 4-12 for .  The goal is to increase vocabulary on all grade levels.

  20. BulletGrammar App
    $1.99
    can help improve use of English grammar, word selection and vocabulary. Topics covered include parts of speech, articles, tenses, verbs, interjections, and more.

  21. BulletiLiveGrammar
    $4.99
    There are three different ilive Grammar apps: Winter, Autumn and Botany. Sentences cover nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions and conjunctions.

  22. BulletVocabulary Monkeys
    $3.99
    This app is for older students who are studying for standardized tests. Each word has a grade that indicates how well users understand it; the grade for a given word shifts up or down based on answers to questions. The app allows users to adjust the number of words to learn and offers more than one format.

  23. BulletiLiveVocabSAT
    $4.99
    has over 5000 SAT words using randomly generated multiple choice problems. It also includes the iLive standard feature of automatic testing, grading, email and blog feature.

  24. BulletMiddle School Writing
    $16.99
    Assists students with the different types of essays required, from biography to a five-paragraph essay. The app allows you to use the web while working on your essay. 

  25. BulletIdioms
    $2.99
    700 Idioms! Provides learners with an opportunity to improve strategies for successfully using native level expressions.

  26. BulletMy Spell Test 
    $1.99
    Users create their own spelling tests. Create a test by typing and saying the word. This is a great app for all ages.

  27. BulletBuild a Word Easy Spelling
    $2.99
    contains more than 600 words with the option to create one's own list. Includes audio and visual prompts and three levels- short vowels, long vowels, and sight words.  Especially good for special-needs students who need a blank background to reduce distraction, large letter cards, and the option not to time or keep score to reduce pressure.

  28. BulletWordbook XL English Dictionary and Thesaurus
    $2.99
    offers built-in spell checker, spoken pronunciations, user's bookmark and note management.

  29. BulletArticles for iPad
    $1.99
    Just enter a search term and let Articles find the Wikipedia entry you are looking for. Great for students who are learning to write research papers.

  30. BulletShakespeare in Bits (they are developing more)

  31. ‣Romeo & Juliet Free

  32. ‣ MacBeth $14.99

  33. BulletFree Books - 23,469 classics to go
    Free
    Take 23,469 classic books, package them up into one gorgeous interface, and make them available to download and read with our fully featured ereader.Free Books unlocks a world of public domain content, allowing you to acquire the great books of human history. Letters of leaders, the collected works of geniuses, the finest Victorian novels, the plays of Shakespeare, the philosophy of Seneca and Marcus Aurelius, the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin and Andrew Carnegie. It's all here, along with tens of thousands of other books. And all, might we belabor the point, absolutely free.

  34. BulletiReading – Stories Collection I Lite
    Free
    AppleTreeBooks™ has been inviting some of the best illustrators from across the world to create illustrated stories for us. Exquisite pictures, vivid narration as well as animation and interactive features bring you and your children wonderful stories and a brand new reading experience. We have carefully selected various stories, including well-known classic fairy tales and new original stories, to give you many options to find the ones you love. Additionally, we will continuously update the books on our online bookshelf, so that you can read our illustrated stories at any time. AppleTreeBooks™ will enables you to experience a new kind of reading and the fun that comes along with it. Free

  35. BulletStoryKit
    Free
    Create an electronic storybook. Make use of the little gaps in life - on the sofa after dinner, in the back seat of the car, or on a train - to do something creative together.

  36. BulletThe Sherlock Holmes Collection
    .99
    Now you can enjoy 48 original Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle mysteries in a beautifully designed iPhone app!

  37. BulletShakespeare 
    Free
    Shakespeare™ is a free app with the complete works of Shakespeare (41 plays, 154 sonnets and 6 poems, including doubtful works) and a searchable concordance to find the exact word or phrase you’re looking for (with “relaxed” searching to find words close to your search term). Even though it’s free, Shakespeare for the iPad/iPhone/iPod is packed with these impressive features:

  38. BulletUnlimited Free Books – Wattpad eBook Reader
    Free
    Wattpad is the place to discover and share stories – with over a million downloads per month, Wattpad is the most downloaded reading app ever. With UNLIMITED STORIES, whether you like fantasy, romance, historical fiction, mystery, teen or fan fiction you can always find something to read, connect directly with writers and chat with other fans!

  39. BulletGoogle Books
    Free and paid books
    The Google Books app offers access to over 3 million Google eBooks on your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. Take your favorite books with you on the go. Shop in your browser at the Google eBookstore, and read in your app.

  40. BulletDMookHD
    Free
    Digital Magazine Book:DBook Viwer. The DBook is a Rich Media Digital Content Container. The DBook can be created by yourself in Rich Media Authoring Tool in Digital Publishing era.

  41. BulletDracula: The Official Stoker Family Edition
    $4.99
    Dracula: The Official Stoker Family Edition puts a new, interactive twist on the classic 1897 novel written by Bram Stoker. Featuring more than 600 illustrations and almost 300 pages of carefully abridged text, this reader-driven experience brings the Dracula story to life in a rich, interactive way. From lighting up the words on a page with a lantern, unsealing the mysteries of letters and journal entries, blowing the leaves off of tombstones to reveal the writing beneath, and even using your own “blood” to reveal hidden text on a page, you are intimately immersed in the storytelling.

  42. BulletOurChoice
    $4.99
    Al Gore's Our Choice will change the way we read books. And quite possibly change the world. In this interactive app, Al Gore surveys the causes of global warming and presents groundbreaking insights and solutions already under study and underway that can help stop the unfolding disaster of global warming.

  43. BulletABC Phonics
    Free
    FLASHCARDS - SEE the spelling, HEAR the audio, and LEARN the word. DRAG & SPELL - HEAR the audio, then SPELL the word. Teaches fine motor skills to drag the letter into the right spot to teach spelling of the words. UNSCRAMBLE - Test reinforced learning to see if your child comprehend the lessons from the top two games. Unscramble the word without any audio cues.  PRIZE AWARD - Encourages and rewards your child and makes learning fun. After completing each level in the Unscramble, your kids can go to the Prizeland to play and with the prizes. The more levels they complete, the more prizes they will unlock.

  44. BulletShake a Phrase 
    $1.99 
    A fun interactive app to learn the parts of speech with 1700+ age appropriate vocabulary words. Three modes- Shake It: creates a new random sentence every time you shake - great for discovering new words. Not sure what a word means? Just tap for definitions! Story Starter: shake up the beginning of a story and let your imagination take over. Quiz Me: test your skills with adjectives, verbs and nouns. Tap on the right words to get points.

  45. BulletBuster
    Free
    helps students develop vocabulary skills while learning to recognize word patterns

  46. BulletCofer
    $9.99
    Created by a full-time, National Board Certified Teacher, Confer is a note taking app for teachers that lets you record and keep track of the notes you take on your students; both individually and in small groups.  Whether you teach Reading and Writing Workshop or simply want to take notes on your students, Confer enables you to take notes quicker and it lets you sort, group, and view your students in ways you just can’t do with paper and pencil. Confer also lets you export and import you data via email, or upload it as a spreadsheet, so you can access your notes anytime, anywhere.

  47. BulletDictionary.com for iPad 
    Free
    Dictioinary & Thesaurus  Everything you love about Dictionary.com on the iPhone is now available on the iPad!  The free Dictionary.com app for iPad delivers trusted reference content from Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com. NO INTERNET CONNECTION IS NEEDED TO SEARCH WORDS. The app includes nearly 2 million words, definitions, synonyms and antonyms. It also features audio pronunciation, voice-to-text search and Dictionary.com’s popular Word of the Day and Hot Word blog. 

  48. BulletKindle 
    Free
    The Kindle app is optimized for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, giving users the ability to read Kindle books, newspapers, and magazines on a beautiful, easy-to-use interface. You’ll have access to over 1,000,000* books in the Kindle Store plus over 100* newspapers and magazines. Amazon Whispersync automatically syncs your last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across devices (including Kindle), so you can pick up your book where you left off on another device.

  49. BulletiBooks 
    Free
    iBooks is an amazing way to download and read books. iBooks includes the iBookstore, where you can download the latest best-selling books or your favorite classics – day or night. Browse your library on a beautiful bookshelf, tap a book to open it, flip through pages with a swipe or a tap, and bookmark or add notes to your favorite passages. 

  50. BulletStanza 
    Free
    Read books on your iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad! Lexcycle Stanza brings the digital book revolution to your pocket with a reading interface that is unrivaled in its clarity and ease of use. With over 4 million downloads around the world, Stanza has become an iPhone phenomenon, and is featured as one of the top three Apple favorites in their "App Store Turns 1" celebration.

  51. BulletWordPress 
    Free
    It's easy to manage your WordPress blog or site from your iOS device. With WordPress for iOS, you can moderate comments, create or edit posts and pages, and add images or videos with ease. All you need is a WordPress.com blog or a self-hosted WordPress.org site running 2.9.2 or higher.

  52. Bullet Zinio Magazine Reading  
    Free
    Zinio, a better way than ever to explore, read and shop for the world’s best magazines on your iPad. Zinio now has more magazines than ever, and a new app built to make it easier to read your favorites anytime and anywhere. Zinio is the ultimate app for people who love magazines. Access thousands of titles, tens of thousands of issues, and millions of pages of the world’s best digital content. Read what you like!

Collections of Language Arts Apps

  1. BulletLanguage Arts -Complete Sentences
    http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/complete-sentence/id382662344?i=84880071

  2. BulletLearning to Read 
    http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewMultiRoom?fcId=432100106&mt=8

  3. BulletLanguage, Grammar and Vocabulary Collections
    http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewMultiRoom?fcId=398230150&mt=8

  4. BulletNEW-Apps for Learning to Write and Books for Kids is live.
    The sixth in the series is now live on i iPhone and iPad, Apps for Learning to Write. Master the craft of writing with this collection of apps that support storytelling, research and outlining, writing, and publishing, and learning basics for writing the alphabet, forming sentences, and building vocabulary. Here are links for iPhone and iPad desktop in the US App Store.  Also featuring a themed swoosh to promote summer reading, Books for Kids, on iPhone and iPad.


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