Great tool for SAT vocabulary practice! A "slamming" way to practice vocabulary.

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Community Review for SAT Word Slam

Marla Kay D.
Marla Kay D.
Forest Lake Education Center
Longwood FL, US
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Vocabulary is an important aspect of the SAT process, and this app is a hit with students! The ability to create your own word lists, enjoy humorous poetry test yourself on words makes this a fun app! Students and teachers can also use this tool to provide a "Word of the Day" in a one to one classroom setting.

In addition to the app features, students, parents and teachers can find tools and support on the website, www.satwordslam.com.

How I Use It

The SAT Vocabulary Slam app can by used by most students. I find the playlist to be very helpful, since students can add or delete words in the list. Students can design their own test by selecting "easy" or 'difficult" questions. Added, are "Remember This" clues to help students put definitions in their memory banks!

Using this app during the class period, or in the first few minutes of class, can ignite interest and student discussion about words! High school students like the humorous poetry and the actor voices! I would use this app in frequent, short segments to keep interest high.

Possible "con's" of this product might be the price and the fact that additional word sets cost up to $2.99.

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Lisa K.
Lisa K. Instructional Technologist/Project Specialist-Higher Ed
December 4, 2014

Using humor to learn is a great thing!

Compared to free SAT vocabulary Apps, Word Slam is worth the $3.99. It is easy to use, entertaining, and has good functionality. The humor is geared for high school students and helps students have a laugh or two while they are learning. The downside with this app is the length of the poems. Although the rhyming poems are catchy, for some words the poems are too long. Also, although 400 words are provided as part of the app, there is an additional cost to add new words (200 words for $1.99). Bottom Line: This is a good individual app that makes learning new words fun. It can be used to study for the SAT or anytime to improve vocabulary.
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Valerie H.
Valerie H. Milford Brook School Manalapan, NJ
June 6, 2014

Engaging and humorous means of learning SAT vocab words

Studying for the SAT Is tedious and usually not a lot of fun. This app makes it more fun and interesting. It was easy to start using the app and the professional audio voices were excellent. The major reason this app works so well for students' memory is due to the fact that the rhymes are catchy and the audio voices are adjusted to the word (for example the slovenly is spoken is a slow, lazy manner) which makes listening to the sentences enjoyable and memorable. The audio rhymes would be extremely helpful for low literacy or ELL. The audio comments voices were creative and made it more personal, but can be turned off if students prefer. The app teaches the vocabulary words in a way that students would remember the meanings easily. Overall, this is one of the better SAT vocab prep apps out there and a great tool to prepare for the big test.
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