App Detail » Sentence Key WHOisDOingWHAT

Published by: Computerade Products

+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad

Price: $4.99
Current Version: 2.0
Released: March 12, 2013

What's New

Version 2 is a complete rebuild to remove our old Flash based software and meet App Store requirements. Select picture symbols or words to create a sentence. Teacher options include auto scan use with an external Bluetooth switch.

App Description

Beginning language learners create a sentence with words or picture symbols, then see the sentence animated!

Suitable for special education needs including AAC users and learners with autism, orthopedic impairment, or language disorders.

Features:
· Select four symbols or words to "write" a sentence.
· 72 possible animated sentences.
· Text and speech in correct grammatical form
· Touch the text below the animation to replay and hear it again.
· Word-by-word highlighting promotes word recognition.
· Choices are color-coded (Yellow-subject, Green-verb, Orange-object)
· User-friendly: no in-app purchases, ads or links.

Teacher Options:
· Show symbols only, words only, or both.
· Reset and review data for an individual session.
· Choose from 8 pre-arranged sets.
· Automate change to a new set of symbols/words.
· Quiz mode where the learner describes a random picture.

The object is to select the four most meaningful components of a sentence which follows the structure WHO IS DOING WHAT. Successful completion of a possible sentence is rewarded by a short animation combined with the spoken sentence. The learner is able to explore choices until successful. Stars can be earned when a sentence is made with no wrong choices.

Sentence Key supports the common core standards in Language Arts.
· Writing: Use a combination of drawing, dictating and writing to compose informative text.
· Reading, Foundational Skills: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of text.
· Language: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar.
· Reading Informational Text: Describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear.

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