Apps to Support Writing: Grade 3 to Grade 6

Flat Stanley

Cost - $1.99
Very cute app kids will enjoy. You pick a "Stanley" character, put him in a picture from your camera roll and make up a story. Good for sequencing, language development, triggering of ideas. Fun and engaging for students. Can e-mail finished product.

Story Kit

Cost - Free

Create an electronic story book. Draw your own pictures right on the screen or use photographs. Add your own text and record sound effects. Good for any age.

iThoughts


Cost - $7.99
A graphic organizer app to help students organize their thoughts. Similar to Inspiration with concept maps, bubbles and links to the bubbles. Easy to navigate. Can export to a pdf file. For lower level content skills.

Writer's Hat
 
Cost - $0.99
An ideas generator to inspire creative writing, oral literacy, and imaginative thinking. Provides random ideas for four basic elements to include in a story: who, what, where, and when. Use the Word Box to generate nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs to use in creative writing.

Writing Prompts

Cost - $4.99
Has over 600 creative writing prompts. Uses different scenes, current events, words, sketches, colours, genres, and writing types.

Grammar Prep: Subjects and Verbs



Cost - $3.99
Tutorials, quizes, test, and progress checking to help improve your writing skills.

Pow!

Cost-$2.99
Strip Designer app to create comic strips using pictures from camera roll. Captures pictures and sequences. You can add symbols and balloons with text. You can make a comic journal for many subject areas. Good for visual learners and relunctant writers. Good app to instill creativity and imagination. Sequencing skills.

Writing Tool Kit

Cost-$3.99.
For emergent writers who do not know where to start writing a story. 14 sections with questions to trigger ideas for a story with various story elements like plot, characters, setting, etc. Good for writers block. Reminders for mechanics. Can also take notes.

WritePadCost-$3.99

A unique app for handwriting recognition. You write on your i-pad or i-pod touch and it translates it into text. Good for students with problems with mechanics of writing and spelling difficulties. Increases speed of input. Can store files in folders and e-mail document. Exports to a pdf file.