Sight Words by Photo Touch- This app has a lot of options.  The basis behind the app is that sight words are spoken and the student has to tap the correct word tile.  The amount of tiles changes throughout the game.  What I like most about the app is that there are options to add in lists from PreK- grade 3.  I can add all the words or just some of the lists.  I can also change how many tiles I want the students to be able to choose from.  Best of all, I can add in my own lists if I want.  

Wordventure- This is basically an e-version of MadLibs.  I loved MadLibs as a kid and as a 4th & 5th grade teacher.  Silly stories make for a fun time.  While the app only has 3 stories for free, multiple copies of the same story can be created and saved.  To me, this made it a bit more accessible to a class.  Of course, there is always the option to purchase more stories.

Fry Word Ninja & Sight Words Ninja- Hiyah!  I'm a sucker for Fruit Ninja.  I love slicing through fruits to earn points.  When I saw the Word Ninja apps, I was immediately draw to them.  A narrator calls out words and the student has to tap or slice through the correct word.  This app is similar to Sight Words by Photo Touch in that is can be customized, but what I like best about the apps is that if you slice through a wrong word, after you slice through the correct word, the SAME word is called immediately after the misstep in order to help the student master the word.  That's just sound pedagogy there :)

Popwords- Students are tasked with creating words with at least 3 letters to earn points.  As you use letters, they either disappear in Puzzle mode or disappear and get replaced by new letters.  WordShaker  is more similar to the game Boggle.  Students make words to earn points, but the same letters are present for the duration of the time.  Both Popwords and WordShaker are useful because students can only make real words.  

The Winning Words button on the Symbaloo above takes you to the app store page with the suite of free Winning Words apps.  The game Memory is the premise behind the activities.  The student has to match either synonyms, antonyms, homophones, compound words, singular/plural, or double letter words depending on the app installed.  It can also be played with up to 4 players and have up to 24 tiles to select from.  

Words with Monsters- Face off with different monsters and defeat them by making words Scrabble style.  Students earn coins by defeating the monsters. They can use the coins to buy stuff that makes words more powerful.  I like activities with a competitive edge.

Popplet Lite- In this app, students create a bubble map (popple) for words of your choosing.  Students can add pictures, text or drawings to map out the word.  You might have the kids use it to brainstorm ideas (in Work on Writing), or students can map out rhyming words, antoynms/synonyms, definitions, part of speech.  This app is more creation based rather than game based.

Fun Rhyming Lite- This is a great primary app.  Students have to choose the rhyming words.  The lite version has 12 different short vowel word families.  The full version has 30 word families.  The 12 free word families are enough to get the students working.  

Starfall ABC's- This app completely mirrors the web version of starfall ABC's.  Students choose a letter of the alphabet and listen to its name, sound and some examples of words with the letter.  There is also a Starfall app that has the rest of what is offered on the web, but you need an account to access is.  It is otherwise exteremely limited.  

Word Search is exactly what is says.  Remember the old days when we had to have a word search book and a pencil to find the words?  Well, we are saving some trees with this app.  Students are given a themed list of words to find.  They simply draw a line with their finger to show they've found the word.