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Word Mover

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Year Level: 1-6

Learning Areas: Technologies and English

Strands:

Sub Strand:

  • Digital Technologies Knowledge and Understanding
  • Responding to Literature
  • Examining Literature
  • Interpreting, Analysing, Evaluating
  • Text Structure and Organisation

Description:
ReadWriteThink’s Word Mover mobile app is used to supplement classroom instruction, reinforce concepts taught in class, and offer increased student engagement through the use of tablet devices and their associated functionality within the Western Australian Curriculum.

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.

Features:

  • Multi-user poem storage
  • User management with the ability to delete or restore within 2 weeks
  • 6 poem categories, each with the ability to personalize
  • 12 backgrounds for stylizing poems
  • Helpful how-to information available throughout app
  • Auto-saving of poems as they are created
  • Viewing of finished poem for proofreading
  • Ability to save poem to photos
  • Ability to print poem on a wireless printer
  • Ability to send poem by e-mail

Word Mover is an educational app for all ages that adds creativity and fun to the learning process.

Link:
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/word-mover/id52997152?mt=8

Below are other interactive mobile apps related to the Learning Areas of Technology and English for primary school students.

Phonics – Tic Tac Toe Interactive Game
Year Level: 1-4

Link:
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/phonics-tic-tac-toe-interactive/id465184366?mt=8

Description:
Practice your phonics skills with a partner in this classic game. Each tic-tac-toe grid gives you a range of questions to develop and test your knowledge of letter sounds. Count syllables, match words with the same ending or beginning sounds, or identify blends and digraphs to make your mark on the grid.

Sight Words by Little Speller
Year Level: F-2

Link:
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/sight-words-by-little-speller/id420828421?mt=8

Description:
Learn to recognise and spell 220 of the most common English words by dragging letters to make the word shown. Tap the letters to hear their sound. You can also record your own voice saying the letters.