Grammer Express: Parts of Speech

I was informed by the students Reading teacher that my students needed to work on their parts of speech. They need to become better at identifying different parts of speech and well as knowing what happens with certain parts of speech. The reading teacher informed me of a great app to have the kids use to see how they are doing. The app is called Grammer Express: Parts of Speech. You can buy the app and pick which focus you want your students to work on. Many different forms of the app are

available in regards to grammer. The Parts of Speech one is an online quiz for the students. You pick from one of the quizzes, whether it be nouns, verbs, pronouns, etc. The app shows you a graph once you click on which one you want of how many questions were attempted, correct, and incorrect. The student goes through the questions and answers them. Once they finish, the teacher and student can go through and it gives you an overview of which questions were correct or incorrect and how long it took the student to answer each question. This is a great feature! Students can go back to the ones they got wrong and see why the answer is incorrect. It gives an explanation of every question. The app is $2.99 and I believe it is worth it for everything that comes with it.

I used this app during Team Time. This took a few days since I only have one iPad in the classroom. Each day I pulled a different student over to do one of the quizzes. I chose students that I knew were struggling with parts of speech. I chose quizzes based off what their reading teacher told me they needed the most help on. One at a time I pulled a student to the back table and explained to them what I wanted them to do. Once they finished, I emailed the results to myself so I could look over them later. Once I reviewed them, I pulled the students quiz back up and we went over it together. We discussed how much time they spent on each question and why they got certain questions wrong.

This was a great app to gauge how students are doing and as a form of assessment. It allowed me to see how students are doing and what their strengths and weaknesses are in certain aspects. I believe it helped the students greatly because we were able to sit down and discuss what went wrong with certain questions. The graph also gave the students a great visual so they could see how they were doing. While this app is a bit time consuming, I believe it is helpful for the students.