ESL: Grade 9-12: App Suggestions:

This app focused on helping kids learn new action words by
showing gorgeous photographs where the actions are clearly acted out.

Bitsboard offers free access to tens of thousands of gorgeous flashcards and carefully curated lessons across dozens of languages.

Learn Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Turkish, Dutch, Irish, Danish, Swedish, Ukrainian, Esperanto, Polish, Greek, Hungarian, Norwegian, Hebrew, Welsh and English.



Frutaba is a 4 player game designed for kids. This fun word quiz game can be used at home or in the classroom as a entertaining way to build language skills. 


You can build your own games and it's ideal for supporting class room activities of all types (or just as fun to play at home!). Futaba is a great way to learn a 2nd language or you could even use it in your history class.

Grammaropolis is where grammar lives! Hailed as a Schoolhouse Rock for the 21st Century, Grammaropolis uses the parts of speech as animated characters whose personalities are based on the roles they play in the sentence.

Learn to read, write and spell all in one!

The only story book maker of its kind. Little Story Maker offers a magical way to enjoy your personal pictures and stories with your child.

Poetry Magnets is a fun way to build poems! Select a category and pass around your iPad with your friends.

Public Speech is designed to be a powerful, easy-to-use application for timing and recording speeches.

Sentence Maker is an exciting interactive game that helps your child rapidly learn to make and complete their own sentences all with just the touch of their finger.

With SparkleFish you can record creative words in your own voice for playback inside surprising, ad-lib stories. If you enjoy Mad Libs, then you’ll really love SparkleFish. It’s fun for all ages, species, individuals, groups, etc.

Calling all Word champs! Experience the thrill of wordplay as you link letters to trace words on a beautiful honeycomb structure.

Language learners love Listening Master. A fun wheel-of-fortune type game for improving your English. Test your listening ability with short passages and tricky questions.

A puzzle game in which players navigate a series of traps, puzzles, and enemies to collect stars. Players summon different objects by typing in the word (e.g. chalk, lion, desk, bike) and watch it come to life. Useful for vocabulary and beyond... This is a purchased app.

Sentence Maker is an exciting interactive game that helps your child rapidly learn to make and complete their own sentences all with just the touch of their finger.

An exciting word game which challenges children (ages 7+) to match up pairs of opposing words in increasingly difficult levels.
Sometimes, available for free.

To read your way to better English, use the ‘My level?’ test in this app and find the right level for you. Then choose a story you like from 30 Oxford Bookworms apps and add it to your library. A free chapter from each helps you decide which one to buy. You can read and listen to the story at the same time, tap on highlighted words to see their meaning immediately, and try the interactive quiz.