leveled books on the iPad... K-2 Mobile Reading

Access to a variety of text types and genres that are "just right" for a reader is an essential component in a child's learning and development as a reader.

The K-2 Mobile Reading iPad app

• provides readers access to a variety of 100 Reading Recovery leveled books
• promotes readers' independent selection of "just right" books with simple app navigation and organization
• encourages active engagement throughout the reading process with supportive introductions, post-reading comprehension questions, and...
• includes in-app teacher management tools 
• monitors student reading and comprehension
• provides options of narrated reading, silent-self reading, or recording of reading for each book 

The First Grade Butterfly Readers log-in with individual passwords and access books at his/her "just right" reading level in the K-2 Mobile Reading app.

the K-2 Mobile Reading iPad app promotes and motivates
independent reading

first grade readers actively engage in the reading process
-reading digital books on the K-2 Mobile Reading iPad app

the K-2 Mobile Reading iPad app provides readers access to leveled texts

a first grade reader reads "just right" books on the iPad
-using the K-2 Mobile Reading iPad app

informed citizens... learning about our world with the News-O-Matic iPad app

The First Grade Butterflies LOVE the News-O-Matic iPad app!

Five new articles are posted each day with kid-friendly language and supportive features (for example- capability to have text read aloud, access to a map indicating the location of the "news", ideas to "act" and become involved, additional "facts", and...)!

News-O-Matic 

• provides readers access to informational text that is meaningful, authentic, and relevant to their lives-world
• facilitates readers' application of reading skills, strategies, and behaviors to construct meaning in a variety of "text" types
• promotes development of knowledgeable, global, and informed citizens 
• incites critical literacy skills
• inspires intentional discourse and problem-solving
• and... 

News-O-Matic is a Butterfly "BEST" iPad app (a "definite-must have" app) for iPads in the classroom and for iPads at home!

a first grader learns about current events
with the News-O-Matic iPad app

first graders become informed citizens
...learning about our world through the News-O-Matic iPad app

first graders record reactions to current events
...learning about our world through the News-O-Matic iPad app