This is a comprehensive list of collaborative submissions from in-service teachers, pre-service teachers, and teacher education faculty worldwide for young children and teachers to use in homes and classrooms. This compilation of free literacy apps was updated once a year until July 15, 2020. The PAPER Rubric was used to evaluate these apps. Please feel free to use this evaluation tool to continue to evaluate literacy apps since they are created at a phenomenal pace. Yet, not all of the literacy apps out there are effective in teaching young children. If you evaluate any and want to share, I would be grateful to continue adding to this list of appropriate, free literacy apps for teachers to use as a way to support the literacy development of young children at home and at school.

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Here is a link to the National Education Technology Plan (NETP), 2024. Its' focus is on making improvements in the digital use, digital access, and digital design divides that children experience which limit the potential of educational technology to transform teaching and learning. 

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Here is a link to some innovative educational technology projects across the United States and beyond that might inspire you to try something similar in your classroom, school, or school district. 

STEM concepts can be integrated with other subject areas but always using literacy to engage students in reading. This PreK STEM lesson plan is a Science and Drama STEM lesson using TX PreK Guidelines for the content standards to observe energy in a home and pantomime the energy for others to guess. In case PreK isn't your thing, how about looking over this 3rd-grade STEM lesson plan using Art and Math TEKS content standards (TX) for a lesson on shapes and number sense. Have fun and make mistakes, it's the best way to learn!

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