Popular Reading Apps

These are a bunch of fun and popular apps aimed at motivating children to read more:

Apps for Elementary School Readers

Bookboard:  Readers of all levels and ages are given specially selected literature to read. The best part? The more kids read, the more books are unlocked, opening up their eyes to new books every day. 

Snap Reading:  More than 150 leveled, interactive e-books are paired with fully scripted lesson plans, related activities and more.

GeoWalk 3D World Factbook:  Some kids resist non-fiction reading—unless, of course, it's all wrapped up in a fun app with a spinning globe that spits out fascinating facts at random.

Story Builder:  With a library of sound recordings and the ability to record their own voice, this app will get the creativity flowing in any aspiring storyteller or fictionista.

Mad Libs:  Who didn't love Mad Libs as a kid? And now, Mad Libs have gone digital.  Trust us, by the time your kid is done with this app, he'll never wonder again what the difference is between an adjective and an adverb.

Apps For Middle School and High School

Kindle:  This is kind of an obvious choice, but we'd be remiss if we didn't point out that kids who have access to books—and lots of them—are more likely to read than kids that don't.  And with the free Kindle app, your kid will have access to millions of books.

High School Bites:  Based on the bestselling youth fantasy novels The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod, this game-based app lets teens score points as they duel with slayers and try to survive school. 

Shakespeare:  The works of William Shakespeare are brilliant, poignant, compelling, fascinating and…. well, they're tough to read. This app makes them a bit easier with a searchable glossary, concordance and more.

iThoughtsHD:  iThoughtsHD isn't exactly a reading app, per se, but it does allow kids to carefully organize the information they are reading for easy reference and enhanced comprehension.

Free Books:  With more than 25,000 classic pieces of literature available for free with this app, your students will be motivated to read at least one.

Literary Analysis Guide:  We admit that this app was probably intended for those of us who proudly call ourselves literature geeks, but it has tons of useful stuff for the general student population, including simple tools to help kids track and comprehend literary components



-Lucie