Grammar Wonderland (Elementary)
By Amanda Bindel,
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Grammar games fun at first, then repetitive.
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What’s It About?
After setting up an account with a first name and last initial, kids choose to practice specific skills or explore worlds. Both options feature the same games: navigating an airplane to touch the correct clouds while avoiding obstacles and wrong answers; feeding an astronaut polar bear the right food packets; or tossing the right water buckets at a camel. Kids choose from among easy, medium, hard, or expert levels, and work on nouns, verbs, or adjectives. Each game handles incorrect answers differently: The camel game offers only two options, so the correct answer is obvious; the airplane game penalizes incorrect answers by slowing the plane down a bit; and in the bear-feeding game, the bear gets a sick, sad look when fed the wrong answer.
Is It Any Good?
GRAMMAR WONDERLAND (ELEMENTARY) packs quite a bit of grammar content into its games, though it's all for practice and not instruction. Kids do have to focus on several unrelated skills -- reading the question and using game controls -- to play successfully. The games move pretty quickly, so all of that can be distracting for kids, making the game frustrating. Since the grammar elements aren't really related to the game content, kids may tire of the app before playing through the whole thing.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about subjects, verbs, and adjectives before kids play, if they don't already have some prior knowledge.
To improve writing and grammar skills, read widely, read aloud to kids of all ages, and encourage kids to read independently.
Ask kids to use particular parts of speech: Which adjectives would describe this flower? Which verb applies to what you're doing now?
App Details
- Devices: iPad , Android
- Subjects: Language & Reading : vocabulary, writing
- Skills: Thinking & Reasoning : logic, thinking critically
- Pricing structure: Paid
- Release date: November 29, 2012
- Category: Educational Games
- Topics: Adventures , Space and Aliens
- Publisher: McGraw Hill Education
- Version: 1.0
- Minimum software requirements: Requires iOS 4.2 or later.
- Last updated: July 12, 2020
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