TenseBuilder

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.

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.

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.

Videos and pictures helped to teach tenses to my kid.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.