App Happy Linky Party - Running Records App

Hope at Second Grade Shenanigans is a having an App Happy Linky Party. While she shared an awesome iPhone app for organizing your classroom library, I am going to share an App for students, and a Running Records App for teachers.

The first one I mentioned in an earlier post - it's the one called Dabble. It is a word building game which involves rearranging letters to create a pyramid of words. It think it would be appropriate for students in grades 2-6. Here is a sample page:

I was able to complete this one by rearranging some of the letters above with the ones in the bottom row.  Afterwards the students get a score sheet like this:

Next is an app that one of my colleagues was raving about.  It is called Running Records Calculator!  There is a Lite version that is free, and one with an audio recording feature that is $2.99.  In this awesome little App the teacher can record the child reading, then input the # of words in the selection, as well as the number of errors and self corrections in the selection, and the App will calculate words per minute, accuracy, and self correction ratio.  Holla!  Gotta love it!!!

It is available for the iPad or iPhone!