Outside the Classroom!

Title: Outside the Classroom!
Subtitle: English Language Arts - Ages 10+, Grades 5+
Release Date: 02/01/18
Type: Launchpad Pack
Type: Subject-Based
Audience: 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10sth Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade

Launchpad Description: Middle School students will be fully engaged with a series of stories, challenges, and games that will sharpen vocabulary, test reading comprehension, develop grammar skills, and help them avoid summer slide! Summer Reading helps kids to:

- Stay motivated to read
- Maintain reading skills
- Get excited about using the library
- Keep discovering and learning all summer long
This Launchpad contains the following apps:

6th Grade Non-Fiction Reading Comprehension (App)
Improve your reading skills! Designed for the student looking for an advantage in solidifying their reading and understanding skills: This collection of 10 original stories was written specifically for this app Read and test your comprehension with a variety of questions about the selected passages Study anywhere and learn at your own pace Each passage and question set takes approximately 5-8 minutes to complete Specifically appropriate content chosen at the 6th grade level Increase student reading comprehension and their scores! Aligned with CCSS - Common Core State Standards for 6th Grade: Read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text User feedback: "I like how it highlights where the answer was in the p

Astraware Word Search, Music Vol. 2 (App)
Astraware Wordsearch (also known as Word Sleuth or Word Finder) is a quick and easy word game with lots of free puzzles for you to play - find all the words hidden in the puzzle! Play against the clock or take your time and just enjoy finding them all! You get free unlimited access to play two new Daily Wordsearch puzzles each day, and you can see how your time compares on the global leaderboard!. There's also a free Weekender puzzle available each week for everyone to play! There are 60 built-in and unlocked puzzles with a range of categories, so you can play offline and have fun right away. With over 20 categories, and more than 100 different word lists, there's lots of variety as you play through the free puzzles each day - and perhaps learn something new too. Many of the puzzles have a different theme, so you might see cute paw-prints on the cat breeds wordsearch, a cascade of leaves on the nature puzzles, a sparkle of stars on the space theme, and much more!

Celebrity Pop Star Salon (App)
Celebrity Pop Star Salon FREE is a Rocking game! Select your gorgeous Pop Star Celebrity and dress her up with fashionable clothes, jewelry, headphones, guitars, microphones and more! Start by choosing your Celebrity. Get her ready for a concert with glamorous Dresses, Tiaras, Shoes and more! Express your inner Pop Star! Free Game App! It’s your dream Celebrity, so make her a Diva, Pop Star, Rocker, or Hip Hop Artist! Celebrity Pop Star Salon FREE features: - 6 Celebrities - 11 Rocking Backgrounds - Numerous Guitars from electric to traditional - Variety of Microphones and Headphones - Decorate the Stage with Stickers - 100’s of unique Combinations - Huge selection of Jewelry from Bracelets, Earrings and Necklaces - Plenty of Tiaras, Dresses, Shoes, Purses and more - Mix, Match and Create your Celebrity Pop Star - Save to Photo Gallery - Cool Music

Grammaropolis (App)
"Learning grammar has never been more fun!" - School Library Journal "It's like Grammar Rock and the Mr. Men books had an adorable love child." - Cool Mom Picks "Brilliant!" - Teaching Community: Where Teachers Meet and Learn Grammaropolis is where grammar lives! Hailed as a Schoolhouse Rock for the 21st Century, Grammaropolis uses the parts of speech as animated characters whose personalities are based on the roles they play in the sentence. From the shady pronoun always trying to take the noun's place to the motherly conjunction who just wants everyone to get along, Grammaropolis achieves the impossible: we make learning grammar fun! Follow along as our story based videos guide and teach you through nouns, verbs and other parts of speech. Practice your English language grammar skills with over a hundred quizzes. Featuring: - 9 Animated Music Videos - 9 Illustrated Books - 20 Animated Shorts - 28 Quiz Categories Every part of speech has its own neighborhood that i

Musaic Box (App)
Musaic Box is an unusual combination of musical puzzle and a detective quest. Its scenario offers you a riddle: to find the old organ master who has vanished. Solving various quests and gathering the clues just like in other classic hidden object games you'll find outlines of musical scores for your music box and reveal exclusive puzzles where you have to recreate masterpieces of classical and modern music out of smaller pieces. Unlike other puzzles, Musaic requires not just logic but a sense of musicality. Correctly composed melodies will lead you to the mystery's revelation and unlock new game mode. © HeroCraft 2012

Puzzle Mandala Dragon (App)
This game is part of a socio-environmental proposal (shared revenue), where part of the proceeds is intended for donations to non-profit organizations actively working worldwide. You can through the site www.owpoga.com check the list of NGOs indicated for receiving these donations, as well as vote and make statements. A game that challenges your attention and reasoning ability. Educational puzzle in which you learn playing. This game series contains a picture of the kind mandala representing power, knowledge, strength, reason and prosperity. To complete the puzzle you surely will benefit from all the elements represented by him. A game where your strategic skills are put to test so that you can break records and more records. There are 3 game levels (3x3 - 4x4 - 5x5), for each level you have an individual time control, thus enabling levels to be played independently. The series of games KebraKoko aims at pure fun but with contents that contribute to enhanced learning.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Dorothy's Quest (App)
Swept away by a tornado, Dorothy finds herself in the Land of Oz. Join her on a quest to reach Emerald City and ultimately her home in Kansas. Sort magic balls to complete levels and collect yellow bricks as you go. As a bonus, the story and illustrations from the original Wonderful Wizard of Oz book are integrated into the game. Be quick and be clever or Dorothy might not make it home! ? Over 100 challenging levels ? Discover hidden bonuses ? Collect achievements ? Original story and illustrations included

Ultimate Trivia for Harry Potter (App)
For true fans of Harry Potter - test your knowledge with over 100 questions about the world of Harry Potter! See if you can identify the different professors at Hogwarts, correctly answer questions about the rules of Quidditch, remember the order of the series of books, and much more!

Who Is It? Music Trivia (App)
Who Is It? Is it Taylor Swift or Madonna? Is it Ed Sheeran or Sam Smith? Over 300 musicians - can you name them all?

Word Wow Big City (App)
Word Wow BIG CITY is here! The Worm is back for another adventure and this time the race has moved to the city. Challenge your word making skills to help navigate Worm down buildings of death defying heights. Puzzle your way down and around obstacles, before time runs out. Think strategically to earn bonus points and stars. Your live worldwide rank will be revealed at the end of each level. You'll be equipped with letter-clearing bombs along the way, but be sure to earn more to use in a pinch. Collect all of the hidden gems to unlock secret bonus levels where you can really rack up the points! The bigger the word, the more points you'll earn. Try and make enough points in each level to earn all three stars. Word Wow BIG CITY will sharpen your brain as well as your reflexes. Help a worm out!