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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 3 – 12 | Mobile App
Word Mover allows children and teens to create "found poetry" by choosing from word banks and existing famous works; additionally, users can add new words to create a piece of poetry by moving/manipulating the text.
Writing & Publishing Prose See All
Whether your students are writing essays, stories, or letters, these tools can help.
Grades K – 12 | Mobile App
The Stapleless Book app is designed to allow users to create with ease an eight-page book simply by folding and cutting. Students can choose from several different layouts for the pages of their books.
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.
