This FREE app for the iPhone/iPad teaches 5 parts of speech: adjectives, contractions, nouns, pronouns, verbs. Kids listen to an animated song about each part of speech. A 3-point quiz follows each song to check understanding. This app also teaches ending punctuation for the four kinds of sentences. The 3-point quiz for this section requires kids to know that different kinds of sentences end in different punctuation. Finally, there is a section on sentences. It teaches that a sentence has 2 parts and is a complete thought (statement or a question). It also teaches that a sentence begins with a capital letter & ends with punctuation. It does not mention commands or exclamations as it did in the punctuation section. For the quiz, the child only has to look at the capitalization & punctuation to determine which group of words is the sentence. Instead, I wish that the focus of this quiz would have been reading to determine if the words formed a complete thought. All in all, this is a good app that could be used to introduce parts of speech and/or to review them. Worth downloading!

Common Core Standards met:

• 3.L.1 – Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences.

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