Theres An App for That

1. ELA Reading App

Subject Area: English Language Arts: Reading
App Title: Sparklefish
App Price: FREE
Languages: English
Rationale: This app serves as an interactive and engaging way for kids to practice their reading and
communication skills. They can record their voice to tell a story, save their recording, share their recording.
By hearing their own voice kids will enjoy telling stories and practice grade level words.
Standards:
ISTE Standards for Students
- 6b. Technology Operations and Concepts: Select and use applications effectively and
productively.
- 6d. Technology Operations and Concepts: Transfer current knowledge to learning of new
technologies.
ISTE Standards for Teacher
- 1b. Facilitate an inspire student learning and creativity: Engage students in exploring realworld issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources.
- 1c. Facilitate an inspire student learning and creativity: Promote student reflection using
collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students conceptual understanding and thinking, planning,
and creative processes.
Ontario Curriculum Expectations
- Standard Strand: Reading Standards 1-8
o Grade: 1
o Topic: Comprehension Strategies
o Item Number and Statement: 1.3 Comprehension Strategies identify a few reading
comprehension strategies and use them before, during, and after reading to understand
texts, initially with support and direction.
- Standard Strand: Reading Standards 1-8
o Grade: 1
o Topic: Reading for Meaning
o Item Number and Statement: 1.4 Demonstrating Understanding demonstrate
understanding of a text by retelling the story or restating information from the text,
including the main idea.
- Standard Strand: Reading Standards 1-8
o Grade: 1
o Topic: Reading with Fluency
o Item Number and Statement: 3.3 Reading Fluently read appropriate, familiar texts at a
sufficient rate and with sufficient expression to convey the sense of the text to the reader.
NYS Common Core Standards
- Standard Strand: ELA.1.R. Reading
o Grade: 1
o Topic: Language for Information and Understanding
o Item Number and Statement: 1.R.1.B Students read grade-level informational texts to
begin to collect data, facts and ideas.
- Standard Strand: ELA.1.R. Reading
o Grade: 1
o Topic: language for Critical Analysis and Evaluation
o Item Number and Statement: 1.R.3.A Students identify, explain, and evaluate ideas,
themes and experiences from texts and performances.

Standard Strand: ELA.1.R.Reading

o Grade: 1
o Topic: Language for Literary Response and Expression
o Item Number and Statement: 1.R.2.C Students dramatize or retell stories, using puppets,
toys and other props.