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MariBeth Plankers, M.S. CCC-SLP Minnesota State University Moorhead Moorhead, Mn. HIGHLY MOTIVATING, FUN IDEAS FOR USING THE IPAD FOR LITERACY

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2 HTTPS://CREATE.KAHOO T.IT

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3 GOAL IN THE CLASSROOM

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4 DEVELOP THE EXPERT LEARNER CAST.ORG

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Resourceful and Knowledgeable Purposeful and Motivated Goal Directed Clip 5 THE EXPERT LEARNER

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6 TECHNOLOGY CONSIDERATION TECHNOLOGY IS A TOOL THAT SHOULD BE USED TO ACHIEVE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES. ONCE A TOOL HAS BEEN DECIDED, WE THEN MUST BEGIN TO DETERMINE WHAT WE WANT THE TOOL TO ACCOMPLISH.

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7 EDUCATORS' RESPONSIBILITY THE TOOL SHOULD BE DESIGNED TO FIT TO THE STUDENT. THE STUDENT CANNOT BE MADE TO FIT THE TOOL.

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8 Universal Design for Learning Principle One: Multiple Means of Representation Principle Two: Multiple Means of Language and Action Principle Three: Multiple Means of Engagement CAST.ORG

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Provide the "hook" for reading and writing, motivation! OUR ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITY

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WRITING APPS

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$4.99 Make handwriting practice fun! Our Wet-Dry-Try Suite App gives children a new multisensory way to practice correct formation: Capitals, numbers, and lowercase on a virtual Slate Chalkboard or Blackboard with Double Lines. Error reporting is provided to help guide your instruction. WETDRYTRY

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$2.99 Kids Writing Pad is a basic large lined writing pad useful for practicing numbers and letters to make sure you draw them appropriately. It has a middle dotted line between two solid lines like most primary school paper so you can practice having the appropriate parts of the letters or numbers in the right areas. KIDS WRITING PAD

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Free to cost Toontastic is a creative learning tool that empowers kids to draw, animate, and share their own stories through imaginative play. Toontastic teaches key storytelling principles. TOONTASTIC

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$1.99 iDiary is an electronic journal that allows students to improve their writing skills while developing their creativity. iDiary allows students to type, draw, write on the screen with their finger/stylus, place photos, and decorate with stickers. If a student gets stuck when writing, there are writing prompts. IDIARY FOR KIDS (LITE)

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Free Draw Free is an app that allows the user to draw and create vivid images. It is easy to use the features such as the different tools (pencil, crayon, brush, or bucket), background textures, and save and share with others. DRAW FREE FOR IPAD

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Free J2e is an online tool where students can create word processing documents, web pages, forms, record sound and video, use text to speech, and collaborate with others. There are many possibilities for students to use this app in the classroom due to the many features. J2E

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Free Great comic making app with exception opportunity to create and design comics that are motivating to students. Access via app or website. Available in additional languages. 17 MAKE BELIEFS

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$7.99 Story Builder is an app that focuses on paragraph formation and making inferences with a fun and engaging format. The student is given a picture and sentence starter to provoke making an inference about what happened in the picture. Audio recordings and audio playback is great for students to practice audio processing who have trouble with this skill. STORY BUILDER

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Free This app is perfect for any child who loves vehicles. Users are given step-by-step instructions on how to draw airplanes, cars, bicycles, boats, and many more. Once the user has drawn the vehicle, he or she can add a background, stickers, paint, crayon drawings, or write with a pencil. Drawings can be saved for users to view later. ILUV DRAWING (VEHICLES)

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$7.99/$9.99 iThoughts is a tool for creating visual maps to organize ideas when brainstorming/writing. Features include import and export to and from other apps or desktop applications, send and open with e-mail, cut/copy/paste between maps and other apps, draw on the map, and multiple layouts. This app is easy to use, save, and create maps for many types of projects. ITHOUGHTS

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$19.99 iReadWrite is an iOS application that provides text-to-speech, word prediction, speech check, and is able to be uploaded to numerous options. Parallels to Read & Write software and ReadWrite Google 21 IREADWRITE

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NARRATIVES

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Free StoryKit allows students to create their own story through writing text, drawing or inserting a photo and adding sounds. This app is easy to use and is great for students to create stories or for the teacher and student to create a visual story together. StoryKit also comes with four free books for students to read, edit, or include in their own story. STORYKIT

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$4.99 The simple way to create your own beautiful iBooks, right on the iPad. Read them in iBooks, send them to your friends, or submit them to the iBooks Store. Ideal for childrens picture books, photo books, art books, cook books, manuals, textbooks, and the list goes on! BOOK CREATOR

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Free and $1.99 With Story Creator you are able to create beautiful story books containing photos, videos, and audio in one collection. Very user friendly. 25 STORY CREATOR

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$.99 My iStory is your story of a day, a week, and a life. Record your story day-by-day in words, pictures, video, audio and music. MY ISTORY

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$1.99 Shake-a-Phrase is a fun language app for creative writing prompts, vocabulary, and parts of speech practice. Perfect for learning and laughing in the classroom or on the go, it features over 2,000 words and definitions in 5 engaging themes for ages 8+. SHAKE A PHRASE

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$2.99 Comic Book Creator. This app uses sophisticated photo processing to make pictures look like they were printed on aged newspaper. 28 HALFTONE2

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Free This is an app that allows students to create a visual diagram to organize their thoughts when writing. Students can create a concept map, mind map, or flow chart and then convert it into a text outline. This app also allows you to copy text from another app (e-mail, document, and website) and import the text into a diagram and share your ideas via email or the cloud. Depending on the student, the visual diagram can be as simple or as complex as needed. IDEA SKETCH

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$3.99 Scribble Press provides students with various drawing/writing tools to create their own story. Students can use their own ideas or choose from one of the 50 templates. Once students create a book, they can upload it to the iPad library, save it in the app SCRIBBLE PRESS

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This is an award winning game of "telephone" with pictures. Great for groups. Free 31 STORYLINES FOR SCHOOLS

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READING

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Free This app allows for a new book Every Day and develops a students love books and daily reading habits. Books may be read independently or to the student. READ ME STORIES

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$1.99 This app is an engaging bingo game where users hear a word and have to select the word that was said; once the user gets five in a row, the user gets a bingo. There are five difficulty levels that are based on the Dolch Word recognition lists: preprimer, primer, grade 1, grade 2, and grade 3. SIGHT WORD BINGO

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Free Little Story Maker allows students to turn pictures in to stories using their language to write and create! LITTLE STORY MAKER (GRASSHOPPER APPS)

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Free There are numerous titles to choose from in the iStoryTime series, all of which allow kids to have the book read to them or to get help reading it themselves. ISTORYTIME

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$1.99 This application will help to ensure that young learners are familiar with all of the Dolch sight words (the most common words), using games, activities, and tons of practice. SEE READ SAY

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Free/Access to all books for $4.99 MeeGenius is another series thats perfect for practicing reading skills. Those with trouble reading can use illustrations and helpful word highlighting to get help, or just have the book read to them until theyre confident enough to do it on their own. MEEGENIUS! KIDS BOOKS

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$1.99 for each area Each app focuses on concepts and skills appropriate for that grade in Reading, Math, Spelling, and Dolch Word recognition. Multiple student profiles, up to 40 users, can be saved with customization on what you want the student to work on; data is also tracked for each user. Once the student successfully completes activities, he/she earns coins to spend at the shop where they can buy stickers, things for their fish bowl or aquarium. TEACH ME SERIES

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$19.99 Read2Go is an e-reader app that allows users to access e-books through Bookshare; Bookshare is an online eBook library that requires membership but is free for all US schools (schools may purchase 20+ licenses with a discount). This app is great for students of all ages, especially older students. It is easy to search, download and navigate books. Features include text-to-speech; customizable font size, color and backgrounds; read with braille displays; save books on your bookshelf; and bookmarks. READ2GO

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$9.99 This app has become one of the top 10 in education, as it is considered to be one of the most accessible apps for reading. Voice Dream Reader integrates with Bookshare, Dropbox, G- Drive, Evernote, Pocket, Intrapaper, and Gutenberg.. It also supports reading PDF and Word documents, EPUB and Daisy eBooks. 41 VOICE DREAM READER

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Free to various cost iBooks is an amazing way to download and read books. iBooks includes the iBooks Store, where you can download the latest bestselling 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. IBOOKS

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Free Listen to 5,533 classic audiobooks totally FREE on your iPhone or iPad. In addition to the great free content, we also include a growing collection of premium audiobooks for your enjoyment. These include professionally narrated modern best sellers and hand-selected classics edited for maximum quality. AUDIOBOOKS

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$4.99 For those who have difficulty reading, apps like Read 2 Me can be a godsend. The app comes complete with an entire library of texts, all of which can be read out loud. READ 2 ME

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