3-5+Apps

3-5 Apps

Third Grade

 * K12 Timed Reading Practice: Your child will practice his reading skills and improve his fluency with this fun phonics app. The app includes 250 stories, both fiction and nonfiction. Your child reads the words on the screen, just as if he is reading a book. The app tracks the words per minute by timing the reading. The results can also list the percentile that your child is reading above or below his grade level so you can get a sense of where your child really stands with his reading skills. ($1.99)
 * Multiplication and Division Flash Action: This game is one of many by School Zone Publishing, makers of popular workbooks for children. This app helps your child beat the clock with quick answers to multiplication and division problems. Activities include vertical or horizontal presentations of equations, as well as multiplication and division charts. Games can be played with multi-player settings to get the whole family involved. ($4.99)

Fourth Grade

 * Word Search for iPad—Young Reader’s Edition: What better way to learn spelling than to search for hidden words puzzle? Word searches include commonly-taught words that kids will need in subjects such as Social Studies and Language Arts. For example, your child can find the names of U.S. states and capital cities or adjectives and verbs that are commonly used in reading. Word searches jump off the page when they're on an iPad. ($0.99)
 * Match-Up Math: This matching game allows children to match up problems with equal answers on a touch-and-drag tile board. In addition to the traditional addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems, the games include fractions, percents, and decimals. Your child will match his way to math success. ($2.99)

Fifth Grade

 * Grammar Prep - Subjects and Verbs: World-renowned educators, Pearson Education, created this comprehensive grammar app to help your child practice subject and verb agreement. Multiple-choice quizzes grade students and become increasingly difficult with each passing level. This series also includes apps for practicing sentence fragments, run-on sentences, comma splices, and the use of commas, pronouns, and modifiers. ($3.99)
 * MathBoard: This app can be used for all grades, as the levels of this mesmerizing math game can be adjusted from very simple to more complex. It includes square roots, cubes, and squares as well as more basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems. Multiple-choice problems make the game a good way to study for standardized tests, and many of the wrong answer choices are answers that are common mistakes. The correct and incorrect answers to each quiz help to create the most suitable answers for the next quiz. ($3.99)