Academic Apps

Many children with NF1 experience a variety of academic challenges as a result of attention deficits and learning disorders. We recommend the following academic apps to address concerns in the areas of language arts, math and reading.

Academics: Language Arts

Toddler/Preschool

 Cost  Title  Purpose/Skill
 Free  AlphaBaby  Cause and effect letters, colors and shapes
 Free  PCS Vocabulary Flash Cards  Vocabulary, boardmaker symbols
 Free  Melvin’s Marvellous Words  Memory game with sight words
 1.99  World Wagon HD  Letters, phonics, spelling
 2.99  Interactive Alphabet  Letters, phonics, flashcards

 KDG – 3rd Grade

 Cost  Title  Purpose/Skill
 Free  Word Games for Kids Futaba  Learn new words, ages 4-8
 Free  Grammar Jammers Primary  Nouns, adjectives, pronouns
 0.99  StickyWords  Create sentences with magnets
 1.99  See Read Say  Dolch sight words
 4.99  Spellboard  Quizzes for weekly spelling words

4th Grade – 8th Grade

 Cost  Title  Purpose/Skill
 Free  Bluster  Prefixes, suffixes, rhyming, synonyms
 Free  Chicktionary  Unscramble, create words
 Free  Mad Libs  Parts of speech games
 Free  Khan Academy  View academic videos, K-12 topics
 Free  Brain POP Featured Movie  Educational animated movies

High School and College

 Cost  Title  Purpose/Skill
 Free  TED  Educational talk videos
 Free  Wikipanion  Google search, dictionary
 Free  Shakespeare  Complete works, glossary, pics
 1.99  Reading Trainer  Power reading, eye exercises
 2.99  Literary Analysis Guide  Elements of literature graphs

Academics: Math

Toddler/Preschool

 Cost  Title  Purpose/Skill
 Free Motion Math: Hungry Fish  Addition and subtraction, 4 yrs and up
 0.99 Counting Bees  Counting to 20 in other languages
 0.99 Numberline Frog  Move from finger counting to KDG math
 0.99 Whizzit Number Doors  Counting, numbers
 1.99 Park Math HD  Counting, addition and subtraction

KDG – 3rd Grade

 Cost  Title  Purpose/Skill
 Free Pizza Fractions  Simple fractions, denominators 1-12
 Free Counting Money  Adding coins
 Free MathTappers  Telling time
 0.99 Math Magic  Add, subtract, multiply, divide 3-8 yrs
 1.99 Math Bingo  Add, subtract, multiply, divide

4th Grade – 8th Grade

 Cost  Title  Purpose/Skill
 Free iTooch MATH Grade 5 Lite  Fractions, graphs, geometry
 1.99 Divisibility Dash  Recognizing multiples of a number
 1.99 Name That Number  Order of operations
 1.99 Baseball Multiplication  Multiplication facts 1-12
 2.99 Motion Math  Fractions, percents, decimals

High School and College

 Cost  Title  Purpose/Skill
 Free Elevated Math  Lessons, video up to Algebra I
 Free Free Graphing Calculator  Scientific calculator, unit converter
 0.99 Factoring Quadratics  Algebra I and II
 0.99 Logarithm Algebra II
 0.99 Exponents Algebra I and II

Academics: Reading

Toddler/Preschool

 Cost  Title  Purpose/Skill
 Free  Toy Story Read-Along  Games, movie clips, coloring
 Free  The Cat in the Hat Lite  Read along, to self and auto play
 0.99  Invisible Alligators  Interactive storybook
 1.99  Wheels on the Bus HD  Musical interactive book
 1.99  Old MacDonald  Musical interactive book

KDG – 3rd Grade

 Cost  Title  Purpose/Skill
 Free  MeeGenius  Download children’s books
 Free  iReading HD Lite  The Lion and the Mouse
 Free  Accelerated Reader  AR quizzes, need school account
 Free  Toontastic  Creative learning tool; draw, animate
 0.99  Writer’s Hat  Creative story writing tool

4th Grade – 8th Grade

 Cost  Title  Purpose/Skill
 Free  iBooks  Download and read iBooks
 Free  Free Books  Download and read free books
 Free  Kindle  Download and read Kindle books
 Free  Nook Kids  Download children’s ebooks
 Free  StoryKit  Create electronic storybooks

High School and College

 Cost  Title  Purpose/Skill
 Free  eTextbooks  Download eBooks, CourseSmart
 Free  Blio  Download eBooks
 Free  Stanza  Download eBooks
 Free  Dictionary.com  Works offline, dictionary and thesaurus
 Free  Idea Sketch  Mind map, diagrams, outlines