Fun with Verbs & Sentences HD

Features
Price $24.99
Age Range Early Childhood & Lower Primary
App Type Learning App
Version Reviewed 1.3
Android Available?
Lite Version Available?
Help Provided?

Bloom's Thinking Process
Creating
Evaluating
Analysing
Applying
Understanding
Remembering

Adaptability
Includes animation
Includes recorded voice
Add own voice
Includes text
Includes images

Review Comments
Fun with Verbs & Sentences gives children practise saying sentences using present or past tense verbs. Children enjoy watching over 260 animations of simple sentences. Build a Sentence This example uses the sentence type - Subject + verb + object. The narrator provides verbal instructions. Select a subject (boy, girl, bear), a verb and an object. Then the narrator forms a sentence using these subject and lovely animation of the sentence is shown. Record your sentence and the adult scores if you have included the subject, verb and object correctly. Watch & Say Watch the animation and answer the question "What is happening?" or in the past tense "What did he do?". Record your sentence and the adult scores if you have included the subject, verb and object correctly. Sentence Types Verb only Subject + verb Subject + verb + object Subject + verb + prepositional phase Random Verbs Present "ing" form Past regular Past irregular Random Bubble Game Choose a prize picture then pop the bubbles until you find your prize. This app can be used by multiple children.

Review Comments

Fun with Verbs & Sentences gives children practise saying sentences using present or past tense verbs. Children enjoy watching over 260 animations of simple sentences.

Build a Sentence

This example uses the sentence type - Subject + verb + object. The narrator provides verbal instructions. Select a subject (boy, girl, bear), a verb and an object. Then the narrator forms a sentence using these subject and lovely animation of the sentence is shown. Record your sentence and the adult scores if you have included the subject, verb and object correctly.

Watch & Say

Watch the animation and answer the question "What is happening?" or in the past tense "What did he do?". Record your sentence and the adult scores if you have included the subject, verb and object correctly.

Sentence Types

Verb only
Subject + verb
Subject + verb + object
Subject + verb + prepositional phase
Random

Verbs

Present "ing" form
Past regular
Past irregular
Random

Bubble Game

Choose a prize picture then pop the bubbles until you find your prize.

This app can be used by multiple children.

Use	Rank (*)
Sentences		Ranked 5th of 13
Oral Grammar and Parts of Speech		Ranked 3rd of 42

(*) This app has been ranked according to its' effectiveness to achieve the learning goals and strategies listed. Some apps may rank highly for achieving a specific use and lower for other uses. Some students will learn and engage with one app more than others, because of the individual nature of us all.

Learning App
Learning apps are designed for a specific purpose. The authors claim to teach a goal, skill or concept.

Bloom's Thinking Process
Bloom's Taxonomy is classification system used to explain the behaviours important in learning. Apps range from simple memory tasks such as flashcards apps through to creative apps which ask students to create an original story or video.

Bloom's Creating
The student creates new ideas, products or ways of viewing things. Activities include making, animating, designing, constructing, planning, producing and inventing.

Bloom's Evaluating
The student justifies a decision or course of action. Activities include counting to check, hypothesising, critiquing, experimenting and judging.

Bloom's Analysing
The student breaks the information into parts to explore understandings and relationships. Activities include explaining, ordering, inferring, comparing and organising.

Bloom's Applying
The student uses the information in a new situation. Activities include implementing, carrying out, using, illustrating, classifying and categorising.

Bloom's Understanding
The student comprehends the new information. Activities include describing, predicting showing understanding use a multiple choice.

Bloom's Remembering
The student recalls information they know. Activities include matching, 'fill in the blank', making a choice, answering using a multiple choice, naming a group.

Learning Connection
How well does the app teach the targeted skill or concept? This is the area where we refer to current research and pedagogy to evaluate the efficacy of the app.

Authenticity
Authenticity looks at the manner in which skills are learnt. Authentic apps use real life or genuine activities. Students learn in context rather than in a contrived or rote fashion (such as flashcards).

Feedback
Feedback needs to be specific and result in improved performance. Feedback should be supportive and encouraging rather than negative. Data should be available to support decision making.

Differentiation
Differentiation is the ability to customise the app to suit the student. The ability to record you voice, customise text, add pictures and alter settings enables individualisation of the app.

User Friendliness
User friendliness is a measure of how well a student can use the app independently. Some apps are simply intuitive to use. Others include audio or visual prompts which support the student.

Motivation
All apps are engaging the first time they are played. However, students with diverse learning needs may need to return to the app many times. Motivating apps offer rewards,games or incentives.

Sentences
There are rules which govern how words are put together to form a sentence. The student practises saying a whole sentence with correct grammar and vocabulary.

Oral Grammar and Parts of Speech
Oral grammar apps help students learn to say parts of speech (verbs, adverbs, nouns, adjectives, pronouns) and grammatical morphemes (plurals, prepositions, possessives, articles a/an/the, verb tense etc.). Also see apps for written grammar and sentences.

Domain	Score	Details
Learning Connection	4	Fun with Verbs & Sentences is a terrific app for children to practise saying simple sentences.
Authenticity	3	Children record their sentences.
Feedback	1	As this is an app where the child answers verbally, feedback would need to be provided by an adult helper.
Differentiation	4	There are many options in this app. Choose the activity, sentence type and type of verbs before you begin. You can also adjust the cueing to provide a visual support and the sentence modeled by the narrator. Text and recording options can be turned on or off. The bubble game can appear after each question or after each 3, 5 or 10 questions.
User Friendliness	3	Children would require an adult helper to score their sentence and provide feedback.
Motivation	4	The animations are lots of fun and young children enjoy the simple bubble game.

From the App Store

Developer Hamaguchi Learning & Development, LLC
App Store Rating (from 2 reviews)
Current Version Rating (from 2 reviews)
Current Version 2.9

Developer's Description
If you love our First Phrases app, you’ll love this app too! Fun with Verbs & Sentences is the next step up for children who are learning to speak in sentences, understand past and present verb tensing, and formulate basic sentence structures. This app is developed for language ages 3-6 with eye-popping color drawings and 266 delightful animations--a cutting-edge way to show and teach action words! For a demonstration of this app, please check out our YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUcYWlJ27yw . This app is for the iPad and is our “full” version. It provides a fun way to visually show left to right sentence building (early literacy concepts) and sequence the parts of a sentence in the right order. This full version allows up to 75 users and groups and data tracking. Want to show animations simply to elicit sentences and verb forms? Just select the "Watch & Say" activity--also a great pre/post assessment tool. Select the verbs from 39 choices or random, and choose the target sentence structures. But this app does more! Play the "Build a Sentence" activity: 1) Choose your subject: There are three character choices in this app: a boy, a girl, and a bear. You can even opt to select "he" and "she" for extra pronoun practice! 2) Then choose your verb: The next step is choosing something for the girl to do. Use the Custom Verb setting or random. (There are always 3 picture choices, such as draw, jump, or eat). Let's choose "draw". 3) Choose your object or prepositional phrase: The last step is choosing something for the child to draw. (Choices for draw include: cat, spider, or cat). 4) The narrator now voices each part of the sentence slowly, as the circles flip around, one at a time, to reveal the associated pictures: “The girl…is drawing…a cat.” Unless de-selected, the narrator will then model the sentence at a quicker speaking pace, “The girl is drawing a cat.” The child is complimented for the sentence and then instructed, “After the video, it will be YOUR turn to say the sentence.” 5) The animation that shows the sentence that was created (i.e., “The girl is drawing a cat”) is now shown, typically with a sound effect. If the verb is present tense, (which is the default) it snaps back and loops continually, without sound. 6) The child is asked, “What is happening? Tell me the whole sentence.” The circles below can be tapped to show the associated pictures or tapped again to hear the associated audio. The child taps “Record” and tries to formulate the target sentence, then touches “Stop”. The child listens to the target phrase by touching a “Check” button that pops up, and compares to his own recording. If used in therapy, the data tracking features on the left can be used. (This can be de-selected within the settings if no desired) *If past tense verb forms have been selected, the animation is shown only once and the narrator asks, “What happened?” If the user would like to target the verb only, this can be selected in the settings, with the question being asked, “What is the girl doing?” (or “What did the girl do?” for past tense) 7) A reward game can be played at desired intervals, the “Pop It!” Game. The child touches bubbles on a screen until a selected “prize” is found. Settings allow the user to select pronouns he/she and the target syntax structures (Subject + verb,Subject + verb + subject or Subject + Verb + prepositional phrase). Data collection for users and groups! PRIVACY POLICY: We do NOT collect personal data from our users and have no ads. Personal data regarding user performance on the tasks on this app are self-contained and not transmitted in any way, unless the user chooses to email them to someone else. A perfect speech therapy app! Developed by licensed speech-language pathologist and author, Patti Hamaguchi, M.A., CCC-SLP. Visit our website: www.hamaguchiapps.com Questions or need Tech Support? Email us at info@hamaguchiapps.com

Developer's Description

If you love our First Phrases app, you’ll love this app too! Fun with Verbs & Sentences is the next step up for children who are learning to speak in sentences, understand past and present verb tensing, and formulate basic sentence structures.

This app is developed for language ages 3-6 with eye-popping color drawings and 266 delightful animations--a cutting-edge way to show and teach action words! For a demonstration of this app, please check out our YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUcYWlJ27yw .

This app is for the iPad and is our “full” version. It provides a fun way to visually show left to right sentence building (early literacy concepts) and sequence the parts of a sentence in the right order. This full version allows up to 75 users and groups and data tracking.

Want to show animations simply to elicit sentences and verb forms? Just select the "Watch & Say" activity--also a great pre/post assessment tool. Select the verbs from 39 choices or random, and choose the target sentence structures.

But this app does more! Play the "Build a Sentence" activity:
1) Choose your subject: There are three character choices in this app: a boy, a girl, and a bear. You can even opt to select "he" and "she" for extra pronoun practice!

2) Then choose your verb: The next step is choosing something for the girl to do. Use the Custom Verb setting or random. (There are always 3 picture choices, such as draw, jump, or eat). Let's choose "draw".

3) Choose your object or prepositional phrase: The last step is choosing something for the child to draw. (Choices for draw include: cat, spider, or cat).

4) The narrator now voices each part of the sentence slowly, as the circles flip around, one at a time, to reveal the associated pictures: “The girl…is drawing…a cat.” Unless de-selected, the narrator will then model the sentence at a quicker speaking pace, “The girl is drawing a cat.” The child is complimented for the sentence and then instructed, “After the video, it will be YOUR turn to say the sentence.”

5) The animation that shows the sentence that was created (i.e., “The girl is drawing a cat”) is now shown, typically with a sound effect. If the verb is present tense, (which is the default) it snaps back and loops continually, without sound.

6) The child is asked, “What is happening? Tell me the whole sentence.” The circles below can be tapped to show the associated pictures or tapped again to hear the associated audio. The child taps “Record” and tries to formulate the target sentence, then touches “Stop”.
The child listens to the target phrase by touching a “Check” button that pops up, and compares to his own recording. If used in therapy, the data tracking features on the left can be used. (This can be de-selected within the settings if no desired)

*If past tense verb forms have been selected, the animation is shown only once and the narrator asks, “What happened?” If the user would like to target the verb only, this can be selected in the settings, with the question being asked, “What is the girl doing?” (or “What did the girl do?” for past tense)

7) A reward game can be played at desired intervals, the “Pop It!” Game. The child touches bubbles on a screen until a selected “prize” is found.

Settings allow the user to select pronouns he/she and the target syntax structures (Subject + verb,Subject + verb + subject or Subject + Verb + prepositional phrase). Data collection for users and groups!

PRIVACY POLICY: We do NOT collect personal data from our users and have no ads. Personal data regarding user performance on the tasks on this app are self-contained and not transmitted in any way, unless the user chooses to email them to someone else.

A perfect speech therapy app!

Developed by licensed speech-language pathologist and author, Patti Hamaguchi, M.A., CCC-SLP. Visit our website: www.hamaguchiapps.com

Questions or need Tech Support? Email us at info@hamaguchiapps.com

Disclaimer: The evaluations and rankings information provided here are based solely on the opinion of the author and are for informational purposes only. Families should seek professional advice before making decisions regarding interventions for their child.