Leave a Review SentenceBuilder™ for iPad
Good Practice for English Learners
Hey Folks,
I'm an English language development teacher at the elementary school level. Building sentences is a regular practice in our classroom. This app offers an engaging, challenging, multi-sensory, puzzle-like approach to the practice. Students really have to think in order to get it right. When they do get it right, there's a fun celebration. The kids and I enjoy the app very much! Two things would improve this app from my perspective: 1) An easy way to switch between students so when an iPad is used in a small group, each student's success could be recorded. (The language card decks by Super Duper Publications have an elegant way to accomplish this. 2) An option to have the words the students select read aloud when students touch them.Show lessThey love it!
Sorry but...
Creating an app and calling it sentence builder but, not highlighting the parts of the sentence does not make for a very good educational application.
This simply is not good enough for my grand kids and I would not encourage people to buy this.pmperry
Good app, a few issues
This is a good app for working on grammar. The kids seem to think of it as a game and enjoy it. My suggestions include making an option for reinforcement after every sentence and allowing multiple players at once. Also, the boxer reinforcer looks a little inappropriate and prompted an inappropriate comment from one of my students. I still gave 3 stars because it works well to target sentence structure, but would give 5 if these issues were resolved.Show lessSchoolBasedSLP
Nice app for syntax and grammar
I am a school-based SLP, and I work with students who have complex communication needs, and this app is a favorite. I do have some wish list items, however: (1) an option for visual reinforcement for every correct answer, for my students with hearing impairment; (2) an option to control scrolling or lock in words for my students with motor planning problems; (3) an option to have a word spoken aloud when touched for my students with limited literacy; (4) an option to show students which words are correct or incorrect when they select, for my students who have impulse control issues or global processing issues/autism, to better help them 'keep trying'.
I really like the variety of sentences and sentence structures used in the app. I also appreciate the ability to adjust levels and settings for individual students. Thanks for another great app!Show lessWonderful, creative game(:
No audio
This would be a nice app but audio does not seem to be working. I am using an IPad 2 running IOS 6. App also seems to be locking up. Don't buy if running IOS 6.Rzorx
Good
Good app but for older kids that can readMumwithapps
The best
Love this stores app. I use them for my language delayed son and he stays focus forever with this developers series of language apps. By far the best resource for empowering him we have used.soulgerofjah'sarmy
Good for Primary EAL Children
Great app. Fairly simple to use. Kids love it; especially the different celebration animations when you get the sentences correct.
Suggestions:
1) Greater control over certain elements of the sentences, i.e. children who are struggling to organise simple sentences, will find more complex language points, like using 'this', 'that', 'those' a struggle, in the context of organising the sentences as a whole. Whereas 'he', 'she', 'they', 'we', 'you' maybe more appropriate. If we could control pronoun features in options, that would be good.
2) I like the sentence levels (there are 3 levels and they increase in complexity by having a greater number of changeable elements). It would be also good if we could change the complexity of the language used, so that the sentences feature more age-related vocabulary. Some of the sentences were tricky for my year 2s as a result of this. And I suspect they would be too easy for year 3s or 4s.
Great app though. Very useful indeed.Show lessfarangutan
Trevor
Bought for my special needs daughter - but the audio did not initially work.
Notified their support and got an immediate reply. It now works fine.
It is a good app with fairly simple options for making simple sentences.upseng
not for children with fine motor problems
This app would be great if it followed the format of rainbow sentences. my daughter has great difficulty with fine motor so this app is useless to her. It is a pity because there are so few apps out there that work on sentence structureamyjane315
