We have added a range of apps that you may find useful for English language and literature. Feel free to browse them and find which ones you think you could upload or invest in.
Look at the cost, description of features and reviews first before downloading
Look at the cost, description of features and reviews first before downloading
Kahoot
This is one of the most popular apps among teachers and pupils alike. It is used to create interactive quizzes which pupils can play in the class. The students with the quickest and correct answers win. This is a great way of ending a class and recapping learning.
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Morfo Booth
This is your chance to create a 3D talking head. Choose a famous author such as Dickens or F Scott Fitzgerald. Students can voice the words and record them. This can be used to help students explain famous books or put the work of authors into context. |
Quizlet
This is a very handy revision tool. Create a variety of revision games using the easy to use app. You can add books and try to match them with the correct authors for example. You can also add voice memos to these Quizlets - helping with pronunciation and in memorising text from books.
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WeeblyThis is a fabulous, easy to use web site design site. It has an education site which is free for teachers and can be used to create websites for the school. for subjects or for pupil projects. It is highly intuitive and very easy to produce a website in minutes!
How can you use it in English?
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Shakespeare in Bits
No , not a nervous breakdown by the bard but a fantastic interactive range of resources to help make the great works a little more comprehensible.
Great reviews for this app. It has the entire play in animation and breaks down each scene. There are also course notes There are a range of follow on apps including Romeo and Juliet and Midsummer nights dream |
IF Poems
Up to 270 classic poems read by a host of famous people.
Great for poetry in the classroom |
Sticky Notes
Interactive and fun app which allows pupils the ability to write and place 'sticky notes' on the iPad
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