Websites, Apps Suitable for Students with Dyslexia suggested by course participants

Type/Title Description
(descriptions adapted from apps’ websites)
ORGANIZATIONAL APPS
Inspiration Maps For grades 4 and up, building diagrams, graphic organizers,
outlines
Kidspiration Maps For grades K to 5, building and organizing diagrams
iReward Chart Keeping up with homework, chores and other tasks. Helps
parents keep track of the child’s behaviour. Includes rewards
and points. Younger children.
IEP Checklist An app families that have children in special education need
to prepare and participate in the IEP
Time Timer Time management with a visual depiction of time, also
audible signals
MindMeister Create, view and edit mind maps
DECODING/READING/WRITING APPS
StoryKit Create a story; Write some text. Illustrate by drawing on the
screen, taking a photograph of something you see, or drawing
on paper and then photographing the paper, or attaching
photos from your album. Sounds can be recorded for telling
your story or as sound effects.
Wikipanion Access Wikipedia with an online dictionary from any word in
the article
Pocket Phonics Teaches kids letter sounds, first words and handwriting. It is
used in hundreds of elementary schools and pre-schools, and
tens of thousands of homes.
Alpha Writer Learn to write and read, utilizing phonics, phonograms and a
special storyboard
First Words Deluxe Reading game for kids, phonics. First Words Deluxe provides
endless fun for the toddlers, giving the child a head start on
 learning their letters and learning to spell words.
See Read Say Did you know before children finish first grade, they should
be able to read all of the Dolch sight words? This list of 220
words, prepared by E.W. Dolch, generally make up from 50
to 75 percent of the reading material encountered by students.
These words are generally known as DolchWords, high-
frequency words, or “sight words”.
Read and hear Dolch words,
also individual progress
Sound Beginnings Includes six interactive games, where players match the
correct letter/sound to the first, middle, or last sound of the
word identifying a pictured object.
ABC Spelling Magic Teaches the sounds of the letters and how to build words. This
app can help your child learn the sounds of the alphabet. This
app indirectly teaches the essential reading skill of
segmenting as well. Two levels of challenge are available.
Spelling Magic-2 This level focuses on teaching consonant blends. ABC
Spelling Magic 2 teaches the sounds of the letters and how to
build words.
Spelling Magic 3 Gives the opportunity to practice building 4-7 letter words
that contain two or more syllables.
ABC Spelling Magic 4 Silent Final e This app will help a child gain mastery with words that
contain silent final e.
Dragon Dictation Dictate using the built-in microphone. Transcription appears
in a note column
Dragon Search Voice recognition with searching capabilities for the web
Dexteria Dexteria is a set of therapeutic hand exercises (not games) to
improve fine motor skills and handwriting readiness in
children and adults. Dexteria’s unique hand and finger
activities take full advantage of the multi-touch interface to
help build strength, control, and dexterity.
Spy Sam Reading Series This multi-book adventure starts with a few simple words on
 each page. Gradually the simplistic cartoon façade falls away
to reveal a thought-provoking plot that champions loyalty and
determination. You can also download books 2 and 3.
Make Sentences This app teaches children how to form simple sentences from
a series of scattered words
Learn to Read, Write and Spell This app teaches advanced reading and spelling skills to
children and adults who struggle in those areas.
Clicker from Crick software - available as an app and as software Supporting writing and reading for learners of English, French
& Spanish. Images and sound are incorporated into texts.
Teachers and learners can create their own grids and texts
with a range of features.
APPS TO FACILITATE VOCABULARY
Fotobabble It allows users to take a new photo or insert a photo from the
camera roll. After inserted to a page, users select a frame,
choose various editing effects, and add stickers, drawings, and
text. Then, users record themselves adding information about
the photo. This activity is especially helpful to scaffold
English language learners understanding of academic
vocabulary.
Pic Collage The app is useful to extend vocabulary knowledge of words
with multiple meanings and shades of meaning. Photos can be
inserted to frames and text can be inserted next to the photo
containing the vocabulary. Or in math, students can locate and
label various geometric shapes.
Explain Everything It is a screencasting app. Users enter images, videos, and text
to a blank slide. Tools include inserting arrows to direct
attention and text highlighting options. With scaffolding and
support, teachers and students can use this app in various
ways to personalize students’ vocabulary development and
interest in words.
Inkids Flashcards Flashcards
Picture dictionary
Learn English Kids
Adj & Opposite
Action Words
Body Puzzle
Genius Baby
English Baby
SPEECH TO TEXT
Dragon Speech
Olympus DM 670 To record classes
TEXT TO SPEECH
Claro I like TextHelp as the video support is embedded in the
Texthelp application), but documents need correct formatting (ie spell-
check in required language) for correct pronunciation and not
Spanglish, Franglais etc. Both of these programs have screen
tinting and on-screen ruler to help readability.
WEBSITES
www.starfall.com Students can click on a word and see how each sound is
blended together
http://katamotzlectura.blogspot.com.es/p/kataluga.html For Spanish students
www.firststepreading.com Young students under 12, help with the phonics and blending.
Parents can use it to reinforce visual and auditory tasks at
home.
http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en Lots of nice stuff here and I like that all the stories and songs
have subtitles
http://bit.ly/LETeensStory2 Writing tasks
http://bit.ly/LETeensStory1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2YAqhzaheE Jolly Songs 42 sounds and vowel song

www.teachyourmonstertoread.com
http://www.eslgamesplus.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/english/games
http://technology4kids.pbworks.com/w/page/24292734/FrontPage
http://cambridgeenglishonline.com/Phonetics_Focus/ A fun way to learn phonetics
http://www.edutopia.org/game-based-learning- This link to Edutopia with lots of other resources for game-
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www.classtools.net A lot of useful ideas here
http://www.learninggamesforkids.com Children can play here
http://www.spellzone.com/games
http://www.dvolver.com/moviemaker/make.html Another tool that is very funny, to practice writing is dvolver
moviemaker. Students can make a short "movie" choosing
among different characters, backgrounds and movements,
than they have to write the dialogue. At the end you will see
your "movie" as a cartoon with balloon dialogues.

www.popplet.com You can create mind maps online that can help dyslexic
students organize their thoughts and points for structuring the
foundation of essays, letters etc.

http://www.englishactivities.net/
YouTube Channels
Dream English Kids
Busy Beavers
Kids TV123
ELF Kids Videos
http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/BuriedTreasure2.html Games to play online for phonics - useful to those of you
http://www.topmarks.co.uk + http://ictgames.com/resources.html (allround) teaching phonics to ESL students
http://www.education.com/games/reading/phonics/ (letter swap quiz)

www.studyladder.com
www.starfall.com
www.spellingcity.com Teaching spelling and vocabulary is easy with
 VocabularySpellingCity

www.topmarks.com
www.primaryresources.com

http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/

http://www.prometheanplanet.com/en-us/ the interactive whiteboard spelling activities