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Mobile Apps
There’s an app for that! Now you can engage your students in literacy learning using tablet devices. Students can download a mobile app and use it anywhere, anytime. No Internet connection is required once the apps are downloaded.
Organizing & Summarizing 
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These tools help students with the critical steps that come between research and writing.
Grades K – 12 | Mobile App
Timeline allows students to create a graphical representation of an event or process by displaying items sequentially along a line, organized by time of day, date, or event and labeled with short or long descriptive text. Addition of an image makes a timeline more visually appealing.
Inquiry & Analysis See All
Got research questions? These tools can help students develop and answer them.
Grades 1 – 6 | Mobile App
Fact Fragment Frenzy provides elementary and intermediate students with an interactive model for finding facts in nonfiction text; then invites students to find facts in five sample passages.
Writing Poetry See All
From inspiration to publication, these tools turn students into poets.
Grades K – 12 | Mobile App
In this app, users can learn about and write diamante poems, which are diamond-shaped poems that use nouns, adjectives, and gerunds to describe either one central topic or two opposing topics (for example, night/day or winter/spring). Examples of both kinds of diamante poems can be viewed online or printed out.
Writing & Publishing Prose See All
Whether your students are writing essays, stories, or letters, these tools can help.
Grades K – 12 | Mobile App
The Postcard Creator walks students through the full production of a postcard.
Learning About Language See All
These games and tools are fun, while at the same time helping children learn how letters, sounds, and words work.
Grades 6 – 12 | Mobile App
Explore the similarities and differences among words typically considered synonyms with this mobile app that allows middle- and secondary-level students organize groups of words by connotation on one axis and by register on another.
