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APP	WHO WHAT WHERE WHY HOW
Sensory Training ($1.99)	WHAT Students touch images for a response WHERE Orthographic process, WHO Students who need to develop their attention, visual, and tactile sensory. WHY Executive Functioning HOW Independently or take turns in small groups
Tappy Memories ($0.99)	WHAT An app similar to pictello. Photos and speech to text are used to document events. Also has a question option to help guide your events. After you're done, you have the PDF format to email and share. WHERE Experience. Vocabulary retrieval, sequential processing, orthographic and phonological processors. WHO Students who benefit from visual prompts, and who can re-tell a story using pictures and words, using oral communication. WHY Motivating to tell your own stories, great use of background knowledge, and lived experiences HOW Great way to create social stories
Audio Books (FREE)	WHAT Listen to 4,382 classic audiobooks totally on your iPhone or iPad. WHERE In the Meaning Processor category WHO Anyone and everyone, especially those with decoding issues WHY It allows the reader to concentrate on the meaning of the story instead of trying to focus on decoding words HOW Individual , small group, or whole class
Sentence Magic (FREE)	WHAT This app helps your child read words, read sentences and build sentences. Sentences are read back to the creator, and the app is self correcting WHERE Context processor WHO Students who have little experience or are delayed in oral language and who have difficulty sequencing words WHY Provides the a link between reading words and reading books HOW Individual, small group, or whole class
Reading Therappy ($14.99) (LITE FREE)	WHAT An automated self correcting workbook that provides complete cloze activities in comprehension, reading, and vocabulary. WHERE Context processor WHO For students or adults with neurological impairment (stroke, brain injury, aphasia) and other children with special needs. WHY Provides support for reading comprehension, attention issues, problem solving, visual processing, and reasoning HOW This app would be more suited for the individual user
Word Dynamo by Dictionary.com Word Games + Study Help ($4.99)	WHAT Word Dynamo combines engaging games with Dictionary.com’s entire word library empowering students to master their word learning. WHERE Meaning processor WHO For students who need to develop their vocabulary and need assistance with comprehension WHY When students come across a word they don't know, this might encourage them to search for the word meaning to ensure understanding HOW This app would be better suited for an individual or a small group working on the same task.
Reading Rainbow (FREE)	WHAT App offers a library of books, plus exciting video field trips to meet fascinating people and places. WHERE Engagement WHO Anyone, especially reluctant readers and those who need visual stimulation to attend to task WHY This program offers the user a read for yourself or be read to option, could be highly motivating to the reluctant reader. HOW This app could be used individually, small group, or whole class
Melvin's Marvellous Words  (FREE)	WHAT An app that teaches readers high frequency words that are most commonly found in print. Memory Match game WHERE Working Memory WHO Any beginning reader WHY Beginning readers need that core of high frequency words to get them started so that they can begin to try new words by reading for meaning HOW This app could be used individually or in small groups, or teacher directed
ABC Magic Line 3 Match (FREE)	WHAT Student taps the letters or objects to hear their sounds. They can also draw lines with their fingers to connect the pictures. WHERE Phonological processors, sound letter association WHO Students who need to develop their sound letter relationships WHY Beginning readers need to know that sounds and letters have an important relationship so they can apply this relationship when decoding new words HOW Individual, small group, or whole class
Speak it  ($1.99)	WHAT Import any text by copying and pasting into the app and it will read it to you WHERE Meaning processor WHO Any student who has visual difficulty or difficulty decoding text because this allows them to auditorally process the text. WHY If the focus is on being able to understand the text, not just decoding it, you want them to get the message HOW Individual or small group