The following apps, games, and websites have been discussed in previous articles on SpecialEdTech.net.

Alphabet

Annotating/Note Taking

ABC Pocket Phonics
Alpha Writer
Phonics Genius
Phonics with Phonograms
Sound Literacy — Offers phoneme tiles as a teacher tool; does not provide audible feedback.

Biblionasium.com keeps track of books that students are reading and, at teacher discretion, allows students to share recommendations and book reviews.
Bookshare, an online library with over 170,000 titles, free to those whose disabilities that prevent them from reading
Booksource Classroom Organizer is a website and smartphone/tablet app that work together to keep track of your books, which makes it easier to let kids check them out.
Children’s Storybooks Online: Illustrated children’s books for all ages
Flipboard, available for free on Android and iOS devices, asks users what their interests are, then provides articles which match that interest.
Giggle Poetry: Hundreds of poems created by students
Newsela enables teachers and parents to direct student reading, and allows selection of news articles by reading level and topic.
Pottermore website offers opportunities for high interest reading
Read 2 Me Allows full speech synthesis for an entire library of texts including your *.txt files.
Who Was” series of biographies, while not an app, are well regarded and popular even with struggling readers.
Wikipedia – Simple English — choose “Simple English” from the language menu in the left column of a Wikipedia page
Word Magic; teaches reading at a preschool level. Award winning.
The Writing Machine; Introduces pre-literacy concepts including letter recognition and discrimination and how pictures and words go together.

Audible.com provides audio books
Books Should Be Free offers free audio books
Bookshare, an online library with over 170,000 titles, free to those whose disabilities that prevent them from reading in a traditional manner
Read2Go; works with Bookshare

Read 2 Me Allows full speech synthesis for an entire library of texts including your *.txt files.
Lit2Go offers free audio books
NaturalReader website; type or paste text in to hear it read
ReadTheWords allows you to make recordings
Select & Speak extension on Google Chrome
Signed Stories, books presented in video format, accompanied by narration and sign language
Snap & Read Universal reads text aloud and provides translation services too
StoryLine Online has Screen Actor’s Guide members narrating video stories of popular children’s books

Speech with Milo
Verbal Me Free; Allows nonverbal kids to touch graphic buttons which “speak” for them.

Autism iHelp
Endless Alphabet includes animations which teach definitions in a fun and engaging way

Harcourt Talking Dictionary. online dictionary which speaks the words; includes pictures and a sentence
Sight Words, Flash card app to practice sigh words based on Dolch Word list.
Symbolworld.org visualizes words and concepts
Words With Friends EDU

Animoto to make videos
Co:Writer, an extension for Google Chrome which uses word prediction technology to help students better express their ideas. Includes speech recognition.
Dipity to make timelines
Edublogs is geared toward older students. Students must have an e-mail to join, and sign themselves up using an invite code from the teacher
Giggle Poetry: Hundreds of poems created by students
Glogster to make interactive multimedia posters

Kidblog is a free website/app tool that does not require student e-mail addresses to set up accounts, although the teacher must provide an e-mail address.
Pixwriter, picture-assisted writing tool for students
StoryboardThat
ToonDoo to make comic books and photo stories