TenseBuilder

Teaching Tense with Animations

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Own as an individual app or as part of our MES Speech Therapy Bundle.
Winner - 2012 2nd Best Educational App by Let's Talk SLP
Winner - 2012 Best Teaching App by TeachHub.com
Winner - 2012 Best Education App by TeachersWithApps.com
TenseBuilder is designed to help students learn how to identify and use correct tense forms by playing movie quality animated videos to demonstrate past, present and future tense. 48 video lessons (will expand to 58) are in place to help give students a deeper understanding about the purpose of tense. Special attention is paid to the past tense of irregular verbs.
Students will learn how to sequence events and how to differentiate between events that will happen, events that are happening now and events that have already happened. Students will also identify correct written verb forms and drag them to complete sentences.
Students have the opportunity to record their sentences in their own voice to improve their receptive and expressive language skills and promote carryover of these target verb forms to their conversational speech.
Tense Builder offers a unique environment for improving a student's ability to understand tenses and use verb forms properly.
FEATURES
-48 target verbs with matching animated movies
-Movies employ humor to engage student
-Video modeling for each verb and tense form used
-Each verb has separate animated lesson to show past, present and future tense
-Option to focus on a particular tense
-Ability to address past tense developmentally, by first teaching regular past -ed forms and then moving to irregular past.
-Includes receptive task, where student taps the correct image to match a sentence, and an expressive task where student drags the correct verb form to complete the sentence
-Intuitive drag and drop to create sentences
-Words are spoken as they are being dragged for emerging readers
-Record feature allows students to record sentences in their own voice
-Save and email recorded sentences
LANGUAGES
- English
REQUIREMENTS
- Compatible with iPad
- Requires iPad 5.0 software update
TenseBuilder is part of "The Builder Series" of award winning education apps. Mobile Education Store has won over 40 app awards and has been named educational developer of the year in 2011 and 2012.
Mobile Education Tools is a member of Moms with Apps, a collaborative group of family-friendly developers seeking to promote quality apps for kids and families.
Recommended Ages: 3-6, 6-10
Categories: Special Needs, Education
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Could be better

New player 59 on

United States

I like the idea of this app, but it is a bit glitchy. My biggest complaint, though, is that it doesn't actually have the present tense. One of the most frequent challenges my students who are working on grammar have is using correct subject-verb agreement (I walk, he walks, etc.). This app substitutes the present progressive tense and calls it the present tense.

Nothing happens!

nancycccslp on

United States

I can get one verb to show, but how do I advance it? And, the student is only supposed to "tap the picture that shows what has already happened." They understand something has happened in the past, the weakness is expressing the verb correctly. This app does not allow for verbal expression. I'm not even sure what they're going for here; they don't allow for choices in order to indicate knowledge. Frankly, a total waste of time.

Engaging

Jcoz11 on

United States

I am an SLP and my students enjoy this app. The videos and activities are simple and beneficial. I do wish it had ability for more than one student to play at a time, but for the price, it's a useful app.

Very helpful

Sreelatha on

United States

Videos and pictures helped to teach tenses to my kid.

Fantastic App

mmt13 on

United States

This is the hands down best app for teaching tense. The movie quality animations are cute and really help students visualize the timeline. My kids ask to play this app over all other speech therapy app. Another amazing app from Mobile Education Store.

Waste of money

Lagringo on

United States

The software is messed up. Frequently says a correct answer is wrong and a wrong answer is correct. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY!

Gotcha style questions are not what students need

They love it! on

United States

As an elementary school English as a second language teacher, I find that many of Mobile Education Stores' apps are great! This one, however, proved to be only moderately useful. The best part of the app is the funny, short cartoons the children watch to see a sequence of events on which they will be questioned. The questions however can be too tricky and in a kind of, "gotcha" style, such that I, the teacher, even sometimes miss the nuance that's required to find the correct answer. I bought this rather expensive app because I wanted my students to practice using the correct verb tense. I'd like them to figure out, for example, whether you say, "I goed to the store" vs., "I went to the store." Or, "I went to the store yesterday, " vs., "I went to the store tomorrow." This app shows a picture from the cartoon, for example, a man holding a remote control pointed at the TV. If the student chooses, "The man is watching TV," the answer would be incorrect because the student didn't notice that in the picture the TV isn't yet on, so the answer should be, "The man will watch TV." This is nit picky and takes a lot of teaching time to direct the students to noticing the level of detail in the pictures instead of the more useful attention to the correct use of language. It targets language that my younger students (K-2) need to work on, but the gotcha questions are not age appropriate.

Great app!

Zeta speaks on

United States

I love the way it explains the targeted tense when the child chose the incorrect picture. This is GREAT for any therapist or parent!!!

Great for special ed classroom

Beth678 on

United States

I am using this app with my 4th/5th grade behavior-disorder students. Teaching verb tenses is usually not greeted with enthusiasm by any student, but especially not by students with behavior disorders. My students love this app -- they like watching the movies and recording themselves saying the sentences. Level 2 where they have to drag the correct verb tense into the sentence is good practice for assessments that measure this grammar skill.

Great!

SLPNTR on

United States

Tense Builder is a great, fun way to work on a skill that can be rather dull. My students are really enjoying the movies, especially the humor in them, and they think they're playing a game. The choose your own verbs option is helpful also.

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