Price: Free
Category: Special Education, English Language Arts
Grade(s): k-8
Devices: iPad, iPhone, iPod touch
Standards:
English Language Arts:
Grade k: Listening and Speaking, Written and Oral English Language Conventions
App Description:
This is an interactive app where you use their fingers to move the family member around the page. You can also use your finger to complete certain activities that would be appropriate in each room.
Home Screen:
Uses in the Classroom:
This app is a useful tool for special education teachers who want to have students practice talking about or showing how they will fulfill daily chores in a house. This app can be useful for teachers who want to provide unique opportunities for students to practice their oral language and vocabulary. Teacher can use this app with kindergarten aged students as well as English Language Learners to facilitate their narration of events that would take place in a home. Students can gain practice using vocabulary as well as narration of actions and sequence.
Possible Assessments:
Teachers can use this activity as an assessment of students' vocabulary and speaking development. If a teacher were to audio record a student's narration while using this app and compare the narration to an audio recording from later in the year, a teacher would be able to assess the student's progress. Teachers can instruct students on what they want a specific family member to do in a room or they could have the student create their own story using the characters and features of the room.
Possible Issues/ Difficulties when using these apps with students:
The activities associated with this app may get mundane for students and therefore can only be utilized a handful of times per year.
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