In June, the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) announced their Best Apps for Teaching and Learning 2018. The apps encourage qualities such as creativity and collaboration and encourage discovery and curiosity.

This app provides great videos with sign language performers telling stories and songs along with pictures!

Featuring noted sign language performers, Signed Stories brings a great array of quality picture books to life through animations, words and signing. Readers can choose between American or British Sign Language. Available books cover a wide range of stories, from classic fairy tales and folktales to nursery rhymes and songs. The app includes a vocabulary builder and fun learning games.

Platform: iOS, Android
Grades: Elementary – Middle School
Cost: (Free app, books for purchase) 

Learn how the Oregon School for the Deaf incorporates Signed Stories into their literary activities. Scholastic mentions the app in their article “6 Fabulous Apps for Special Needs.” And check out this review of the app from OMazing Kids.

Watch the app in action here: