Apps to Support Reading: Grade 10 to Grade 12

Flipboard

Cost - Free
Flip through stories, photos, videos, news sites, magazines, and popular publications. Here is a YouTube video of the app in action.

Kobo

Cost - Free
Millions of free and affordable books to choose from. Everything from new releases to popular classics. Newspaper and magazine subscriptions are also available. You can look up unfamiliar words simply by a touch of a finger. Can change the style and size of text. Has a night mode for easier night time reading. Can read in portrait or landscape mode and add notes as you read. Bookmarks your pages.
Prizmo

Cost - $9.99
You can scan in documents and have it read to you. Would be great for in class handouts and assignments. Can import photos and can rotate and crop.
Wikitap

Cost - Free
A search engine for things like Wikipedia, dictionary or videos. A great reference for Encyclopedia, Pronunciation, Thesaurus and more. A great search engline tool for any student.
Audiobook & Podcast Player

Cost - Free Trial($2.99 if you want to keep it)
Ideal for listening to audiobooks and podcasts. Remembers your place automatically. has a 'time travel' function to go back to what you were listening to at a particular time.

Blio

Cost - Free
Books in Blio can be read yourself or have a text to speech function. Can highlight words and look up any unfamiliar words. You can choose to read in single page mode, dual page, flowed view, or speed reading view. Support for the visually impaired and those with reading disabilities.

Reading Machine

Cost - $1.99
Students can spend more time reading without getting stuck and frustrated on words. When they come to a word they don't know, they type it into read machine. The app doesn't just tell them the word, it sounds it out and shows them how the letters and sounds go together so they can try it themselves. Great for early or struggling readers.

Ave!comics

Cost - $0.99
Browse through the comic shop where you can buy comics and graphic novels. A revolutionary reading experience that uses kinematics to create an animated journey through the stories. Besides your favourite comics, there are many classic novels transformed into graphic novels such as Huckleberry Finn, Shakespeare, and Alice in Wonderland. Great for students who find the full novel versions too intimidating or difficult to read or understand.