Here are 10 apps Wendy and I found:
Compensatory
1. Read&Write: Offers text-to-speech, text and picture dictionaries, options to collect highlights. Read&Write is useful for students who are unable to read at benchmark and require support with decoding and comprehension. Read&Write is often the first recommended app in HRCE.
2. Snap&Read: Provides text-to-speech and reads in other languages as well, as well as text levelling. This extension can be useful for any students with lower vocabularies, including students below benchmark in reading and EAL students.
4. Storyline Online: Has read to me function, which allows students who are unable to read to access books during reading time. Ideal for students who get frustrated with accessibility to books during reading time.
5. Epic Books: Has read to me function, which allows students who are unable to read the ability to access books during reading time. Ideal for students who get frustrated with accessibility to books during reading time.
Remedial
1. Bob Books: Phonics-based games that help students combine letters and sounds, read words and sentences and then use the words they practiced in beginning readers. This would be useful for students with dyslexia or any difficulty with phonics.
2. Book Creator: used remedially to create books for students specifically zoning in on words they are working on, and phonics that need development.
3. Clicker sentences: Allows student to use words to create sentences that are already created. Works on word recognition.
4. Hearbuilder: Many, many games that allow students to work on following directions, phonological awareness, sequencing, and auditory memory skills. Suitable for students in grade 2 and up, those with challenges with phonics, recall, and reading. Most of my students on hearbuilder are getting SLP phonics support as well.
5. Syllable Word Search: Memory-style word game which asks students to practice breaking words into their syllables. Good for practice for older and more advanced students as they work on decoding longer and more complex words. This app is free.
Bonus:
Chegg flashcards: A flash card based app that allows you to input different words/pictures. I use it for letter sounds, sight words, and cvc. What I like the most is that you can save a deck for each student, which is a quick and efficient way to keep data for all of your students. Everytime you pull up their desk, you know exactly what words they know and which ones they are working on. Grades 1 and up.
Readtopia: Provides graphic novels at 7 different levels of reading. The beauty of this is that the images are age-respectful and all book covers are the same. Readtopia is aimed at secondary students.
Thanks for your extensive list Alison. Just wanted to note that Storylineonline is a site where actors read aloud all the books. It is incredible. Just wanted to clarify your description (there are so many other sites that offer read aloud of books it can get confusing). Thanks for sharing your resources. It would be good to know what platform they are available on. I do love Clicker Sentences, Book creator (iPad and Chrome) and Readtopia is exceptional. We use it for many different grade levels and students at high school for compensatory strategies in a very diverse classroom with multilevel readers. Thanks for sharing.