Write About This is a great app to encourage students to write or speak their own stories. It is visually inviting for elementary school students and likely will appeal to most middle schoolers. Students select from a broad variety of 375 photos and prompts. T... View More
Word Mover is a simple app for creating digital magnetic poetry that can be fun and creative for some, but dull for others. Students construct their own poetry from the extensive word bank or words they add. Students also can reconstruct the words of four famo... View More
Primary Writer is a cute app to encourage elementary school students to write sentences or stories. The app is a child-friendly word processing program that enables children to pick a colorful background for their written work and then save, email or print the... View More
Story Builder for the iPad is a decent app that invites users to create a spoken story about a single picture. Three levels in this app transfer independence in developing the story by first using prompts to guide students to reveal literary elements and then ... View More
This app, targeted for classroom use but fine for home, provides introductory lessons in essay writing similar to that found in a traditional workbook. The first chapter and the printable teacher guide are free to trial, but chapters 2-6, printable graphic org... View More
This app encourages students to write using auto-generated prompts, but some of the references and topics may make it a bad choice for K-12 students. The app includes over 1,000 starting lines and ideas. Students press the lightning bolt until they find an i... View More
IEW (Institute for Excellence in Writing) Writing Tools Lite is a useful app which provides convenient, stepwise instruction to help students take organized notes and enrich their writing, but many students might need adult support or they could easily feel co... View More
Kid in Story Book Maker is a fun app for parents to engage young children in reading and writing their own storybooks with a unique technology that enable personal photos and recordings on every page. The free app has over 20 ready templates including All Abo... View More