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Great Apps for Middle School ELA

A little background on me: I work in a school whose middle school is BYOT, or Bring Your Own Tablet. Families know it is coming, and they make necessary arrangements to ensure it's ready to go once they are in middle school.  I use an iPad throughout the day, but I have a handful of students who have Samsung tablets, so I make sure pretty much everything I use is compatible with both.  I am (quite obviously) a language arts teacher who is constantly learning about new ways to incorporate tech into the classroom, while still not losing the good ole' feeling of holding a book.  SO. With all that being said, here are the apps I use the most. I will probably do more in-depth posts about a few of them, but here is the general list and the reasons I lurve them:  Lit Charts . Yes, I have read the books a million times. Yes, I know what happens. But, when you are teaching, quite literally, FIVE books at one time, you need a little help. This one comes in handy to give you a