My Take
While this App has great skills to teach early reading skills, students get bored with this App after a while. I would not make this App an everyday App. Since this App offers valuable practice with reading skills I would make this App a couple times a week practice so the students don't get turned off by it's repetition.
How I Use It
This is a great app for struggling readers and writers. I use it with student are having trouble reading and matching words 1-to-1. It can teach some good beginning reading skills like directionality, 1-to-1 matching, and sight word recognition. This App would be great as a center in K. It would also be great for ELL student to acquire vocabulary.
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Colleen M.
Teacher
Lakeshore Elementary School
Holland, MI
December 30, 2015
Good for early readers
I think that this app is good but is also limited. For ELL students it can help with sentence structure and vocabulary development. Students with basic word knowledge can use this app. It has audio to go along so it teaches the words along with the sentence structure. It is limited in it's excitement so engagement has been an issue. This would be a good app for use for a warm up activity for 5 minutes or less. Any longer and I think students would loose engagement.
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Julia B.
Special education teacher
Ridge High School
Basking Ridge, NJ
February 3, 2015
This is a customizable app that lets students create their own sentences
This is a great site to help students develop their vocabulary, spelling, sentence writing, and reading skills. It is very engaging because it is interactive and have visual and audio support.
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Christina B.
Special education teacher
August 14, 2014
Basic sentence builder for young students
Overall I don't recommend this app. I don't see the students wanting to use it more than once. It's very basic and doesn't offer the students a chance to create their own sentences. It does help them work on sentence structure and vocabulary but after awhile that concept gets old. It's nice that they have both the audio and visual aspect but I don't see the students begging to play this.
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