This app has so many flaws that very few students will benefit from using it. The home screen of the app looks fun and appealing with a clever illustration of "Graham R. Gnome". However, then the amount of information on any given screen quickly grows overwhelming beginning with the verb, pronoun and common core examples. Most elementary students will not have the patience or the knowledge to follow the videos in the Learn module. The other modules all effectively follow the same format which requires the student to distinguish the subject from the predicate or combine a subject and predicate to form a sentence. There are simply too many words on a page and the activities will be tedious for most students. The voice over is automated and unpleasant. Every incorrect response in a section will hear the same automated explanation which will not be very much help for students struggling with the concept. This app is unlikely to effectively engage or teach and may very well annoy or frustrate most students.

• Provides sufficient and varied types of practice problems to maximize understanding and generalization of the targeted skill/concept
• Manufacturer claims alignment with Common Core/Known Standards
• Presents educational concepts accurately
• Explains answers so students can learn from mistakes
• Better for teaching the skill to new or struggling learners
• Better for practicing or refreshing the skill
• Skills are practiced through authentic, meaningful problems (not just rote practice)

• Appropriate for a broad age range to use and enjoy
• Subject matter and problems are relevant, interesting and authentic to students
• Visually appealing to children in the target age range
• Provides virtual rewards or incentives after meeting specified goals or objectives
• Provides a "break activity" between academic problem sets
• Offers ongoing, progressive challenge
• Overall - Enjoyable. Given the option, students would choose this option

• Has a free or trial version
• Provides teaching guidance for adults to support the child and set appropriate goals
• Provides an age-appropriate tutorial/first time users can work independently
• Student should be able to use independently after first use
• Has a multi-player option to foster in-person collaboration or cooperation
• Multiple users can save a profile
• Student graduates to the next level or topic only after meeting a benchmark
• Can play without sound and not distract others
• Students can save work between sessions
• Can effectively understand and monitor student's progress (email report or in product)
• Provides options to play in languages other than English/Good for ELL
• Presents information in multiple formats (voice over, pictures and text, etc.)
• Overall - Easy to use

• Abstract Reasoning
• Requires remembering and completing a sequence of visual steps
• Students might need support with navigation
• Attention
• Promotes purchases or upgrades to students
• Has auditory distractions that cannot be silenced (background music, players shout answers, etc.)
• Visually distracting with too many pictures, problems or moving objects
• Includes long written questions or text that students must be able to read on their own
• Auditory Processing
• Has auditory distractions that cannot be silenced (background music, players shout answers, etc.)
• Audio is not clear or voice is robotic
• Listening Comprehension
• Has auditory distractions that cannot be silenced (background music, players shout answers, etc.)
• Audio is not clear or voice is robotic
• Organization
• Requires remembering and completing a sequence of visual steps
• Includes long written questions or text that students must be able to read on their own
• Students might need support with navigation
• Reading Basics
• Includes long written questions or text that students must be able to read on their own
• Reading Comprehension
• Includes long written questions or text that students must be able to read on their own
• Reading Fluency
• Includes long written questions or text that students must be able to read on their own
• Verbal Reasoning
• Includes long written questions or text that students must be able to read on their own
• Visual Discrimination
• Promotes purchases or upgrades to students
• Words used during activity can be too small or difficult to read
• Visually distracting with too many pictures, problems or moving objects
• Directions are visually difficult to read
• Students might need support with navigation
• Working Memory
• Requires remembering and completing a sequence of visual steps
• Includes long written questions or text that students must be able to read on their own
• Audio is not clear or voice is robotic
• Students might need support with navigation

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