Adventure Academy

Adventure Academy is a dynamic and super fun online platform that uses a MMO game based learning style to teach subjects such as: Math, Science, Language Arts, and more.  Adventure Academy was designed for students 8-13 years old and uses a wide variety of games, interactive graphic novels, and video tutorials to help students learn a wide range of subjects/topics (i.e. comprehension, fractions, geography, etc.).

Below is a brief demo...



I highly recommend checking out Adventure Academy by clicking here!!!

Story Composer

Story Composer is an innovative multiplayer iOS game that helps students develop their story composition skills.  This is done through the use over 240 animated images where students pick and choose which pictures to structure their story from the beginning, middle, and end.  Finally, a finished story can be shared online or emailed to family and friends.

I highly recommend checking out Story Composer by clicking here!!!

Story Wheel

Story Wheel is an excellent educational app for students wanting to develop their Language Arts skills.  This is done through a super-fun iOS game where 1-4 students spin-a-wheel and develop a story by recording audio to the picture the wheel lands on.  This is a great way to develop story composition, ignite creativity, strengthen oral language skills, and more.

I highly recommend checking out Story Wheel by clicking here!!!

Check out Story Wheel Vampires by clicking here!!!

25 Reading Sites and Apps

As a follow up to my recent list on Math Sites/Apps found here, I've decided to compile a list of my favorite learning tools for Reading.  Again, Mobile Learning and BYOD make it easier for any student to learn any core subject, especially that of Reading.  Finally, this list does includes tools that help w/ comprehension and Language Arts as a whole.


*This list is in alphabetical order.

25 Reading Sites and Apps

1. ABCYa - A long popular site for finding educational games grades K-5 in Math and Reading.  I highly recommend checking out their Word Cloud app by clicking here.
2. Actively Learn - A fantastic site where educators can make any Reading material "their own" by adding questions, annotating, collaborating, and more through a educational portal.  Also, a great way to "flip a lesson" and gauge student learning to help differentiate instruction.
3. Adapted Mind - A great site for Math and Reading grades 1st-6th, that breaks down Reading into: comprehension, spelling, and vocabulary.
4. Brain Pop & Brain Pop Jr. - One of the worlds most popular ways for students to learn subjects such as Reading, through animated videos.
5. Cookie - A fun site for younger learners w/ lots of educational games, puzzles, activities, and more.
6. Hideout: Early Reading - A wonderful iOS app for young readers that helps them learn through a series of educational games/activities that focuses on: sounds, correct letter, word recognition, and more.
7. IXL - One of the most popular sites around for educators looking for an online curriculum in any core subject grades K-12.  Also, the educational portal allows for student tracking to generate detailed reports and differentiate instruction.
8. K5 Learning - An online Reading and Math program for grades K-5 w/ retail results and detailed reports.
9. Khan Academy Kids - A fun free mobile (iOS/Google Play) for ages 2-6 looking for resources in Math, Reading, and Writing.
10. PBS Kids Lab - A great collection of games and activities to build Reading and Math skills ages 3-8.
11. Play Kids Games - A nice little site for finding alphabet, memory, and vocabulary games.
12. PlayBrighter - Learn any subject in the anime-themed gamed by completing educational missions.
13. Reading Racer - An innovative app that uses a mobile devices microphone to listen to student read and compete in a race.
14. Reading Raven HD - A great iPad app for young readers starting out by learning letters and phonics working on up to reading full sentences.
15. Room Recess - One of my favorite sites around for educational games in a wide variety of subjects such as: Math, Typing, Reading, and more.
16. Sentence Reading Magic - A wonderful iOS app for beginner readers that have them not only building a sentence but working on their Reading skills by reading a sentence and tapping on a picture to see if they are correct.
17. Sheppard Software - A neat site for games on a wide variety of subjects including Reading/Language Arts.
18. Sight Words Hangman - A great iOS app that focuses on over 300 sight words and 30 word lists to help students learn.
19. Skoolbo - A nice online site for ages 4-10 that focuses on Math and Literacy/Reading skills.
20. Socrates - An amazing new site where educators can seamlessly differentiate instruction through games based learning (i.e. any subject, Math, Reading, etc.).
21. Sumdog - A excellent site w/ educational portal that allows educators to track students progress through game based learning in a wide variety of subjects including Reading.
22. Super Teacher Worksheets - My all-time favorite site for educational resources including topics such as: Reading, Writing, Spelling, Grammar, and more.
23. ThinkFluency - A wonderful iOS/Google Play app that uses cutting-edge technology to assess a student's reading fluency.  This is all done w/out the use of paper, providing instant real-time feedback, saving teachers valuable time.
24. Time4Learning - A great place to find resources and online program for a wide variety of subjects and grade levels including Language Arts/Reading.
25. ZooWhiz - A fantastic site that uses Game Based Learning to teach a wide variety of subjects such as: Math, Reading, and Spelling.

Sentence Builder

Sentence Builder is an excellent iOS app designed to help students ages 4-7 learn about: grammar, sentence structure, pronunciation, and more.  This is done by dragging and dropping words around to build sentences.  Also, a user can upload their own pics and include them in a sentence and even record their own voices.  Sentence Builder is ideal for self paced learning and has two different levels to choose from.

I highly recommend checking out Sentence Builder by clicking here!!!

Preposition Builder Master

Preposition Builder Master is a unique game for Language Arts/ESL students learning about
prepositions.  PBM is a easy to play game where a user tries to put the correct preposition into a sentence in as fast as time possible.  This game can be played online for multi-player and there are 4 different levels to choose from.

I highly recommend checking out Preposition Builder Master by clicking here!!!

Kid Heroes Verbs

Kid Heroes Verbs is the new educational game from RoomReccess.  This is an innovative strategy game that has students selecting the correct verb (i.e. past, present, past participle) to place a hero in front of their king to protect from him from enemies/monsters.  As w/ all RoomRecess games, Kid Heroes Verbs has lots of replay value and requires lots of strategy on deciding where to place your heroes (i.e. warrior, archer, healer).  This is a great learning tool and excellent way to integrate Game Based Learning into the classroom.

I highly recommend checking out Kid Heroes Verbs by clicking here!!!

Sentence Master

Sentence Master is a fun iOS app to help students work on their Language Arts and Grammar skills.  This is done through a simple game where users select a word (from a list of scrambled ones) to form a correct sentence.  Scoring is done by how fast a person completes the sentence.  Sentence Master has 4 difficulty settings and is also multiplayer.

For a more detailed review check out Edshelf by clicking here.

I highly recommend checking out Sentence Master by clicking here!!!

Grammar Gladiator

Grammar Gladiator is a super fun mobile/web game that focuses on different Language Art skills such as: conjunctions, verb tenses, articles, and more.  The goal of Grammar Gladiator is to control the gladiator and jump on platforms to launch fire into the correct answer, while destroying enemies w/ your spear.  Also, a player can collect gems to purchase upgrades such as: health, life, etc.  Best of all a player can select what skills they want to work on during the game.

I highly recommend checking out Grammar Gladiator by clicking here!!!

For more games from RoomRecess click here.

*RoomRecess is an advertiser of Technology Tidbits.

RoomRecess Hangman

RoomRecess's Hangman is an excellent online game for those working on LA or Spelling skills.  This is a 1 or 2 player game that focuses on different parts of Speech such as: nouns, verbs, adjectives, and more, while incorporating Spelling skills.  This is a super fun age-old game where students select letters and try to solve the word before breaking all their pencils (10 chances).

I highly recommend checking out RoomRecess's Hangman by clicking here!!!

For other educational games by RoomRecess click here.

Wiz Kid

Wiz Kid is an excellent platform game from RoomRecess.  This fantasy inspired game focuses on Language Art skills such as: word meaning and homophones.  Like other RoomRecess games a student tries to collect coins and answer questions while avoiding/defeating enemies.  As the student progresses through the levels they can unlock/purchase power ups as they game gets progressively harder.

I highly recommend checking out Wiz Kid by clicking here!!!

*RoomRecess is an advertiser of Technology Tidbits.

Mystery Word Town

Update - The most requested features from users is to add your own words to be able to customize the word lists in Mystery Word Town.  A user can even record their own voice to use in the game!!!

Mystery Word Town is the new game from Artigig Apps.  This mobile (iOS/Android) app follows the same familiar style as the Mystery Math Town games where a user has to travel through a town collecting letters to spell a word (instead of numbers to solve an equation).  Mystery Word Town features high replay value as students try to help the town's sheriff capture outlaws by spelling sight words.  They can interact w/ their environment and learn about the outlaws as they unlock new boards and characters.  Also, this game saves a user account that it makes it ideal for multiple users on the same device as well as the ability to select a users "game" level.

I highly recommend checking out Mystery Word Town by clicking here!!!

For more Artgig Apps click here.

For my Pinterest board on Game Based Learning click here.

Mystery Word Town

Mystery Word Town is the new game from Artigig Apps.  This mobile (iOS/Android) app follows the same familiar style as the Mystery Math Town games where a user has to travel through a town collecting letters to spell a word (instead of numbers to solve an equation).  Mystery Word Town features high replay value as students try to help the town's sheriff capture outlaws by spelling sight words.  They can interact w/ their environment and learn about the outlaws as they unlock new boards and characters.  Also, this game saves a user account that it makes it ideal for multiple users on the same device as well as the ability to select a users "game" level.

I highly recommend checking out Mystery Word Town by clicking here!!!

For more Artgig Apps click here.

For my Pinterest board on Game Based Learning click here.

Common Core Quest

Common Core Quest is an excellent free Android app for Math & LA grades 6th on up, and aligned to Common Core Standards.  This app allows students to take practice quizzes to learn a large variety of concepts such as: functions, fractions, graphs and more.  Also, it tracks student progress as well as show the incorrect answer w/ links to walkthrough videos and games.  Students can then earn badges/ribbons for learning a Common Core Standard and teachers/parents can get detailed reports.

I highly recommend checking out Common Core Quest by clicking here!!!

For my Pinterest board on Educational Android Apps click here.

Below is a brief demo...

Adjective Detective

The Adjective Detective is a fun online game I just found out about from Technology & Learning.  This game explains what an adjective is and provides a lot of interactive exercises siting examples.  Also, it has students being a detective and finding the adjectives (i.e. superlative and comparative) by highlighting them in a sentence w/ a magnifying glass.  Finally, there is a short quiz to help reinforce learning.

I recommend checking out The Adjective Detective by clicking here!!!

Power My Learning

Power My Learning is a site I've covered before but has just relaunched their site redesign w/ exciting new features for educators.  This is a excellent site for finding educational activities for students such as:  games, videos, interactives and more.  Also, a educator can create their own "playlist" for a class or modify an existing one to meet their needs.  Finally, PML has aligned activities to common core standards to make assigning/finding content easier.

I highly recommend checking out Power My Learning by clicking here!!

For my Pinterest board on Educational Online Games click here.

RoomRecess

RoomRecess is a wonderful free site for educational online games for Elementary students.  These games are simple to use and focus on a lot of different skills in the area of Math and Language Arts.  Some of the different skills covered in RR are: irregular verbs, parts of speech, multiplication, and more.

I highly recommend checking out RoomRecess by clicking here!!!

For my Pinterest board on Educational Online Games click here.
For my Edshelf collection on Educational Online Games click here.

Telescopic Text

Telescopic Text is a site I looked at a few months ago, but never really paid much attention to. However, after reading Kelly T's wonderful post on TT on iLearn Technology (great read), I decided to give it another peek.

This is a great site for LA/English teachers as it visually shows students how to construct a sentence. The way this works is rather unique, by clicking on a word in the "interactive' sentence it expands into a different sentence by adding, nouns, adjectives, verbs, etc.

Below is an actual example...



For more info click here.