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Grammar Express : Super Edition

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ELA: Writing MS/HS/College iOS App

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Mindprint Expert Review

Pros

  • The app provides plenty of practice in all aspects of grammar.
  • The design is clean and straight-forward and the timer is tiny and not distracting.
  • Quiz results enable students to easily focus on areas of difficulty.

Considerations

  • Students will not enjoy this app, as it is entirely rote practice.
  • App uses challenging vocabulary in the explanations and questions.
  • Quizzes can have as many as 50 questions which can be overwhelming for many students.

Mindprint Expert Review

This is a fine app to provide a student with rote practice in appropriate middle and high school grammar. The Super Edition covers all the topics of the individual apps, e.g. tenses, parts of speech and voice. Parents can try the free version to see if it will be a good fit, but parents will need to pay for the full version if they want their child to use the app. Each topic is broken down into sub-topics with several screens of explanation and multiple choice quizzes. The explanations, quizzes and quiz answer explanations use challenging vocabulary and sentence structure, so this app will likely require parental support at times. However, the quiz summaries provide detailed feedback on each answer which can be mailed to a parent, and students can choose to go back and review incorrect answers. Also, parents can pre-set the amount of time for the quiz and give the student instant feedback on each answer. This app is all work and no fun, but the full version has a clean design with easily viewed questions and answers. For students who learn best by doing lots of problems and learning from mistakes, this app can be the right choice.

Academic Benefits

Improves academic skills

  • 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)

Fun

Engaging for the Mindprint recommended age range

  • 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

Easy to Use

Understandable for children in the Mindprint recommended age range

  • 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

Cognitive Concerns

May not be advisable for students with the following cognitive needs

  • Attention
    • Problems or examples are not interesting for the target age range
    • Includes long written questions or text that students must be able to read on their own
  • Organization
    • Problems or examples are not interesting for the target age range
    • Includes long written questions or text that students must be able to read on their own
  • 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
    • Assumes specific knowledge or vocabulary without "look-up" options
    • Includes long written questions or text that students must be able to read on their own
  • Vocabulary
    • Assumes specific knowledge or vocabulary without "look-up" options

Manufacturer Description

The entire Grammar Express collection at half the price!

Our 14 Grammar Express apps sell like hotcakes all the time. How about having all 14 apps in one single app and at almost half the price?

* Learn grammar rules with over 600 pages of grammar lessons.
* Study with over 5000 examples explaining each rule.
* Test your grammar knowledge with over 8000 questions.
* Review your test with detailed test results and explanation for each right answer.

Grammar Express Super Edition encompasses following 14 apps available on store:

1. Grammar Express Tenses
2. Grammar Express Parts of Speech
3. Grammar Express Active & Passive Voice
4. Grammar Express Reported Speech
5. Grammar Express Degrees
6. Grammar Express Nouns
7. Grammar Express Articles
8. Grammar Express Asking Question
9. Grammar Express Correct Usage
10 .Grammar Express Clause Analysis
11. Grammar Express Figures of Speech
12. Grammar Express Prepositions
13. Grammar Express Question Tag
14. Grammar Express Single Word For Many


PREPARE BY TOPICS:
You can study the grammar rules by topic. All questions are sorted by topic. It also tells you the areas that each topic covers. Choose your own timer setting and number of questions you would like in each test. Special algorithm randomizes questions every time you take a test.


MOCK TEST MODE:
In mock test questions are presented randomly from all the topics.


DETAILED TEST RESULTS:
A summary of the practice test is presented at the end of each test. It shows you the time you took, the score, which questions you answered correctly and where you were wrong. Review each question with explanation.


PROGRESS METER:
The app records your progress as you start giving practice tests.
It shows you a beautiful bar chart so that you can track and focus on the topics you are weak at.


VERY EASY TO USE:
The slick user interface allows you to choose from possible answers.
You don't need to press too many buttons or encounter any alert messages.
The app is very interactive and needs minimum user input.