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21 Good iPad Apps for Teachers of 3rd-5th Grade Students to Try This Summer

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21The summer is a great time to explore new-to-you iPad apps that you might want to add to the iPads that you have in your classroom. Each day this week I’m going to share a selection of apps appropriate for four ranges of pre-K-12 grades. Yesterday, I shared 21 apps for Pre-K through 2nd grade. Today, I have apps 3rd through 5th grade students. Apps for grades six through eight will be shared tomorrow. Apps for 9th through 12th grade will be shared on Thursday.

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Winning Words Match Games – Fun & Free Vocabulary Games

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Screen Shot 2014-03-10 at 2.29.13 PMWinning Words is a series of free iPad apps that feature matching / “memory” style vocabulary games. There are six apps in the series. Each app is played in the same manner of flipping a card and trying to find a match for it. The six apps are synonym match, antonym match, homophone match, compound match, double letter match, and singular/plural match. Each app supports up to four players and has three levels of difficulty.

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I tried Winning Words Synonym Match to get a sense of how the apps worked in practice. The app did not require me to register or enter any information, I simply opened it and started playing. The app is appropriate for elementary school and middle school students.

Spelling Monster – A Fun iPad App for Practicing Spelling Words

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Screen Shot 2014-01-02 at 12.00.43 PM Spelling Monster is an iPad app (free and paid versions available) that students will enjoy using to practice spelling words. On Spelling Monster students can create their own lists of words or use lists shared with them (sharing only available in paid version). The app contains a half dozen games through which students can practice spelling the words in their lists. Spelling Monster keeps track of the number of times a game is played and the percentage of words spelled correctly.

Students do not have to create an account to use Spelling Monster. The app can be used without a connection to the Internet.

Have Fun Learning Vocabulary With the World’s Worst Pet

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iready World’s Worst Pet is a free iPad app that contains a series of fun vocabulary games. In the app players have to help bring home Snargg, the world’s worst pet, who has run away. To get Snargg back players have to fill his food dish by learning new vocabulary words. Each of the six levels in the game contain ten dishes (each dish represents a new set of words) that can be filled. Four games are available for each dish. The games are fill-in-the-blank, synonym identification, antonym identification, and definition identification.

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World’s Worst Pet is designed for students in grades four through eight. The app contains a total of 1,000 vocabulary words. I played the game for a while this morning and found myself enjoying it. In my time playing the game I could see that students could definitely get hooked on this vocabulary game.

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Thanks to David Kapuler for recommending this app.

Vocab Junkie – 800 Vocabulary Flashcards for Your iPad

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Screen Shot 2013-05-09 at 8.00.19 PM Vocab Junkie is an iPad app from Brainscape. I learned about Brainscape early this week on Larry Ferlazzo’s excellent blog. Vocab Junkie features more than 800 vocabulary flashcards. Like any flashcard application the cards present one word at a time. To get the definition tap the card to read it. After reading the definition and sample sentence rate your understanding of the word. Over time the app learns the words that you know better than others and shows you the words you don’t know more often than those you do know.

 

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