Tell Me Stories is a free Android app for creating short picture stories. Using the app you can create simple booklets from pictures that are stored on your Android device. After inserting a picture you can type text to accompany it or you can speak text. Either way, the text that you enter can be read back to you with each picture. It’s not the slickest storytelling app that I’ve tried, but it is easy to use. You can see how it works in the video below.
Writing teachers looking for a set of prompts to give to their students would do well to install the free Writing Prompts app on their Android devices. Writing Prompts provides exactly what the name implies, writing prompts. There are more than 500 free prompts organized into nine categories in the app. You can select a category to find your next prompt or simply scroll through the prompts by selecting “all” then tapping “new prompt” until you find a prompt that you like.
Writing Prompts isn’t a fancy, feature-packed app. But if you just need some help generating story starters then Writing Prompts could be the app for you.
Cool Reader is a free Android app that anyone can use to read a variety of ebook formats including ePub, .mobi, and html. Through the Cool Reader app you can browse for books in public collections like Project Gutenberg or import your own books. The Cool Reader app has some handy features including bookmarking pages, clipping text, searching for text, and skipping to chapters.
Cool Reader is an open source project. The app has an average rating of 4.7 from more than 56,000 reviews.
The Write app from Stylus Labs is a slick little app for handwriting notes or longer documents on your Android tablet. The app has all of the features that you might expect to find like pen stroke color and thickness adjustments. What makes Write stand out is the selection of editing tools that it offers.
The Write app allows you to cut and paste chunks of your handwritten text. You can move and insert spaces into your handwritten text. And you can play back your notes from the beginning to watch your handwriting unfold on the screen. All pages created in the Write app can be saved to your tablet. You can also export your pages as PDFs through email, Google Drive, Evernote, and other file storage services.
The video below offers an overview of the Write features. (The video doesn’t have sound).
Interactive Telling Time is a beautiful Android app that will help children learn to read clocks. The app comes in a free version and a paid version. The free version is free of advertising and has two games. The paid version is also ad-free, but it has five games and a quiz.
In both versions of the Interactive Telling Time students practice setting the clock to specific times and stopping the clock at specific times. By completing the activities correctly students earn fish and other aquatic life to put in their virtual aquariums.
Interactive Telling Time can be used in seven languages. The app settings also allow you to use 12 hour and 24 hour time formats.
