First Grade Technology Demonstration Classroom Free Apps Worth Looking At Fry Words and Phonics Genius are not fancy apps, but that is what makes them a useful tool. If you have students who struggle with practicing their sight words or need additional help with phonics-these are the apps for you. There are a lot of choices in the settings for you to customize the experience for your students. The Play Mode is where you can choose to have students listen to words or hear the words read and they choose which is the word they heard. TinyTap is an app that helps you make tiny learning apps for children! There is a basic template, but you get to customize it and decide the content! Teachers can make TinyTaps for students, and students can make TinyTaps for each other or learning buddies. Parents and Grandparents might want to give it a whirl for those special little people in their lives. There is a way to record your voice onto your TinyTap and you can choose to have your TinyTap live on your iPad or share it with others. There is also a way to search for TinyTaps created by others that may focus on a concept you are working on right now!