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Hi everyone, I am loving MIT App Inventor.  I have now created my third app and am excited to share the details with you. Dot Plate Memory Games i s an app that will help boost your students’ memory and practice subitizing at the same time. Memory games can help improve students’ concentration, boost brain functionality, train visual memory, increase short-term memory, help keep focus and increase attention.  Subitizing is being able to instantly recognize how many dots there are in a group.  Subitizing helps students form mental pictures of numbers and realize that a number can be represented in many ways. This is a perfect app for your students to “warm up” their brain before your math lessons or during math centres.  How it works: There are 9 games in total.   Games 1, 2, and 3 focus only on four numbers at one time (easy level).   Games 4 and 5 focus on six numbers at one time (medium level).   Games 6, 7, 8 and 9 focus on eight numbers at one time (hard lev

Hi everyone, I am really excited to say I have created a second app for Android.   Elkonin Boxes is an app that can be used to help students build phonological awareness by segmenting words into phonemes.  Elkonin boxes help students increase their reading skills by challenging students to segment words into their individual sounds and syllables.  This app is perfect for a small guided reading group or one-on-one instruction with students.  How it works: The teacher picks a Set and selects the “Picture” button to show the first image.  The teacher or the student can press the “Word” button to listen to the word that goes with the image.  If the student needs to hear the word more than once, the student can press the “Word” button again.  The student pushes the counters into the elkonin boxes as they repeat the word and say each phoneme in the word.  2-phonemes Set 1 This set contains 13 pictures that are segmented into 2-phonemes.  The pictures in th

I was doing literacy centres with my students last week.  One of the centres had my students using letter tiles to make real and nonsense words.  The activity got me wishing that there was an app for this as I was running out letter tiles for each student.  Well, I decided to try and create one for my class.  And guess what, I did it!!  It is a fairly simple app which is what I wanted so it will be easy for me to use and my students to use. Below are screen shots of the app.   Title Page of the App - This will stay up for a few seconds then will automatically go to the HomePage Menu. HomePage Menu of the app HomePage Menu of the app - there are 7 centres/activities in total.                     Centre 1 - three letter words (cvc) Centre 1 - The teacher or student would touch the number 1 and a random letter will appear. Then the teacher or student would touch the number 2 and a random vowel will appear.  Then the teacher or student would touch the