ENGLISH
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 

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.

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.


ShowMe

This is a great little app. Very simple in its concept. It allows pupils to make the iPad an interactive open pad to simply write or draw on. Simple as that

It can be used to test knowledge by asking pupils questions in the class

How can you use this with English?You can test knowledge quickly by asking them to write down the answer to display.
They can record themselves writing answers to questions.
They can write short stories or draw a place or person described in a story


Strip Designer

This is an excellent comic strip app. You can use it to design storyboards. Pupils can create a scene from a play or recreate scenes from a book themselves.

How can you use it in English ?
  • Pupils could be inspired to use it to create a story with each panel of the Comic being designed by a different pupil/s and the work displayed in large size in the classroom or corridors.
  • Create storyboards
  • Tell the an abridged version of a book through a comic

Weebly

This 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?
  • Use it to create online sections in which pupils can display their talent - short stories, poems and prose can all be effectively displayed online
  • Use it to create an author focus - Combine text, pictures, gallery and Youtube links on a page to enable students to research

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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