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Grammar Express: Parts of Speech

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ELA: Writing MS/HS/College iOS App

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Pros

  • The app provides plenty of practice in all parts of speech.
  • The design is clean and straight-forward and the timer is tiny.
  • The presentation of quiz results enables 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.
  • Tests can have as many as 50 questions which can be overwhelming, though a student does not need to finish the test.

Mindprint Expert Review

This is a fine app to provide a student with rote practice in appropriate parts of speech. The free version allows a student to sample nouns and pronouns, but if a student will use the app parents will find it worthwhile to pay for verbs, adverbs, etc and avoid the distracting ads. 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 it 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
    • Shows advertisements
    • Promotes purchases or upgrades to students
    • 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
  • Vocabulary
    • Assumes specific knowledge or vocabulary without "look-up" options

Manufacturer Description

◆Over 130 Pages of Grammar Lessons.
◆Over 1000 examples with Grammar Rules.
◆Over 800 Test Questions with Explanation.

Grammar Express : Parts of Speech is the complete course in mastering usage of different parts of speech.
It contains over over 130 pages of lessons explaining each part of speech with several examples.
You can learn the grammar rules, study the examples and then test their understanding by taking quiz.
At the end of each quiz the user is presented with test summary and explanation for each test question.
Grammar Express can help you to improve your understanding of the different parts of speech.
Custom timer setting can assist you to improve response times under exam time constraints.
Research suggests that kids and adults learn most quickly when playing learning games with real-time error-feedback.
Grammar Express provides learners with an opportunity to improve strategies for grammar success.




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.

◆Nouns
◆Pronouns
◆Adjectives
◆Verbs
◆Adverbs
◆Conjunctions
◆Prepositions
◆Interjections



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.


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 your weak areas and give more focus on them.



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. Innovative use of iPhone's small screen real estate.

FEATURE LIST:
• Over 130 pages of grammar lessons and rules with over 1000 examples.
• Over 800 multiple-choice questions with explanation.
• Choose number of questions you would like in each test.
• A new module, "Pie chart" keeps track of how you are performing in a particular topic or mock test.
• Choose your own timer settings.
• Cool sound effects. (You can turn them off if desired.)
• Choose your own zoom factor for your question graphics.
• Special algorithm that randomizes questions every time you take a test.