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Puppet Pals HD<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This app can be used to create a short animated movie that looks like a puppet show. You have the option to either choose ready-made characters, or you can take a photo to create your own character. You can also choose from a selection of backgrounds or can take a picture to create your own. Once you have chosen the characters and background you can then begin making a recording. You can move the characters around to different parts of the background and can take them off stage and on stage, you can also record audio. You can pause the recording so you can do bits at a time. (\u00a3 inexpensive)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Chatterpix Kids<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this app you can take a photo of anything, draw a line for a mouth, record yourself saying something and then make the photo talk. It could be used to take a photo of a character or person from a story or topic you are looking at and the child could talk about how the person felt or what they did.\u00a0(\u00a3 inexpensive)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Little Story Creator<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This app lets you instantly create collages, arrange photos or get creative with videos, text, borders, stickers, videos, audio and your own drawings.\u00a0Share your creations via email and view and experience them in any browser. Easy to use. (\u00a3 free)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Book Creator<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This app can be used as an alternative way to record work and achievements, or to make projects and write stories. Books can easily be exported to a variety of e-book readers such as iBooks, iPads or iOS devices.\u00a0You can use it to add photos taken with the iPad or pictures saved from the internet, add your own voice recordings, type in text or even annotate with drawings using a finger or a stylus. (\u00a3 inexpensive)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Pictello<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This app that helps you make a social story, a visual schedule or even a slide show of pictures. Each page in a Pictello story consists of a photo or video and some text, which can be read aloud by a Text to Speech voice or your own recorded audio. (\u00a3 moderate)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Special Stories<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This app allows you to easily create stories and records of work utilising photos, text and audio.\u00a0You can create a digital book that includes some writing, a photo and a sound recording. (\u00a3 moderate)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Clicker Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clicker Writer is a literacy support tool that is aimed at helping young writers develop their independent skills and removes barriers that may be holding them back in their writing. It includes: child friendly Sassoon font and dyslexia friendly font; a simplified keyboard; word prediction; sentences read aloud once punctuated; sentence construction support; word banks for key words or topic words; mind mapping tools.\u00a0Also comes with access to free resources. (\u00a3 expensive)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Docs Plus<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This app provides secondary school students with a range of age-appropriate tools to support writing across the curriculum. The predictor suggests age-appropriate vocabulary based on the context of students’ writing and students can also use the audio note creator. ‘Wordbar’, give instant access to the specific words and phrases needed. It also comes with a built in speech feedback, a mind mapping tool and a document reader that will read pdf or word documents. It has an exam mode setting that allows users to view the question as they write their answer. Also comes with access to free resources. (\u00a3 expensive)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Widgit Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This app lets you create symbol-supported documents on your iPad. Documents out loud with the iPad speech voice. If you have an internet connection, you can write in symbols using Widgit\u2019s smart symbolisation. If the internet isn\u2019t available then you can write using the offline symbol database. Links with Widgit Online account. (\u00a3 inexpensive)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Pages<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pages is a word processor developed by Apple Inc. It is part of the iWork productivity suite and runs on the MacOS and iOS operating systems. It allows users to quickly create documents on their devices. Apple Pages is compatible with Microsoft Word. If you’re creating documents in collaboration with Word users, or if you’re sending your Pages file to a Microsoft Word user, you can save the Pages files as a Word document or export the Pages file as a Word document. (\u00a3 free)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Apple Dictation (\u00a3 free)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1.Display the on-screen keyboard, then tap the microphone.\u00a02.Start talking. The device listens to your voice and turns it into text as you talk. Use keywords to insert punctuation or paragraph breaks as needed. 3.Tap \u2018Done\u2019 to stop dictating. 4.Adjustment text as necessary using the keyboard. (\u00a3 free)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Dragon Anywhere<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This app needs a live internet connection. Dictate documents of any length, easily edit, adjust formatting and quickly share them on the most popular cloud-sharing services. (\u00a3 SUB)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Tip: Keep your iOS (operating system) up to date as new features are released frequently.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

*All details accurate at the time or writing \u2013 please note that app prices do change, apps do get removed from the app store and iOS updates can stop apps from working correctly<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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