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Learn With Homer
Price: Free Skill: Comprehension, Phonics (拼读法)
Grade level: Pre-K, K Device: iPad
It’s a learn-to-read app for kids aged 3 to 6 that includes drawing, voice recording, stories, songs, and more, along with more traditional phonics exercises. This app can be helpful for kids who have speech production problems and language organization problems.
Inspiration Maps
Price: $9.99 Skill: Comprehension, Writing
Grade level: 4th and above Device: iPad
Inspiration Maps is a mind-mapping tool that helps kids visually organize ideas. They can create maps, organizers, brainstorms, and text outlines. Outlines can be changed to maps, and maps can be changed to outlines. Users can share creations by emailing, printing, or saving to iTunes, Dropbox, Photos, or the app (as PDF or PNG files). The Lite version (简单版本) which is free, lets kids create up to five mind maps with no sharing choices.
Aesop’s Quest
Price: $0.99 Skill: Comprehension
Grade level: 2nd, 3rd, 4th Device: iPad iPhone iPod Touch
Aesop’s Quest, based on Aesop’s Fables, is a learning game where the student must remember parts of a story to complete a level. At the end of each story level, the student is rewarded with tests. After solving the tests, the story is complete and the child can continue to the next story. Developed together with the Virginia Department of Education.
LightSail
Price: Free Device: iPad Skill: Comprehension
Grade level: Pre-K, K, 1st, 2nd, 3rd 4th, 4th and above
LightSail is an e-reading platform that helps teachers support their students’ independent reading. Students can use LightSail to check out texts from their schools’ online libraries and read the books directly on their iPad. As students progress through a book, questions appear to check their comprehension. As students complete these assessments (评定), they earn prizes.
21. The app “Learn With Homer” can help users who have difficulty in _______________.
A. draw in B. making speeches
C. reading stories D. doing phonetic exercises
22. What should users do in order to read the next story on the Aesop’s Quest?
A. Work out the tests of the previous (之前的) story.
B. Retell the previous story completely.
C. Finish reading the previous story.
D. Remember each part of the previous story.
23. What do we know about the app “LightSail” ?
A. It enables users to get resources from school libraries.
B. It is developed mainly for high school students.
C. It helps users complete school assessments.
D. It develops users? reading comprehension through games.
