I have an exciting new app to share with you all. Head to your app store and search “get epic” to find this fun new app! You can also go to www.getepic.com
Epic! allows teachers to create free accounts. With your teacher account, you can create up to 36 profiles for your students. Students can only access the educator account at school, but you can easily put this app on multiple devices. This would be a great center activity, especially if you are in a one-to-one classroom. When you login to your teacher account, you will be able to access each student’s book log to track which books they are reading. There are some books that are only offered for paying accounts, but majority of books can be found with free educator account.
If you are a parent or child, you can create an account and pay only $4.99 a month for unlimited access to the Epic book collection.
Epic offers a variety of books geared toward kids ages 12 and under. The app lets you track how much of the book you’ve read and how much you have left to read. After reading the book, you can mark it as a favorite and/or rate it.
You can also download a title to your bookshelf to allow for “offline reading.” This would be a great
option for when traveling!
One of my favorite features of Epic is the personalized book recommendations. Based off the books you check out to read, Epic will recommend other books you might look.
Epic is constantly updating their library and adding new books. I will admit, some of the books are better than others. There are many “less known” books, but there are lots of high interest non-fiction books. Check out those math books! Math concept books are a great way to integrate literacy across the curriculum.
Have you used Epic in your classroom? It was only a month ago that I discovered it, so I’m still exploring it. Let me know if you use it and what your students think about it. Do you have other apps you enjoy using for books? I love finding new resources to get books into the classroom!
