Grammar Pop
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | $1.99 | HPHLP | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
The sentences get longer, the parts of speech get harder, and the timer gets shorter as you pop more clouds and advance through Grammar Pop. You won’t even know you’re learning!
Grammar Girl has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show as a grammar expert, is a regular radio guest, and has been featured in Business Week, the New York Times, CNN, Reader’s Digest, the Washington Post, and USA Today. She has written seven books on grammar, including Grammar Girl Presents The Ultimate Writing Guide for Students, which is used in many classrooms and has been offered through Scholastic book fairs.
Many of the game sentences use commonly confused words and model “Conventions of Standard English” requirements of the Common Core standards.
Grammar Pop supports iPhone 4 and newer iPhones.
Testimonials
“Unlike anything I've seen...Fun to play a 'smart' game.”
—Beth St. James, graphic designer, artist, and mom
“As a licensed teacher I'd strongly recommend it to middle or high school English students.”
—Scott Miniea, grammar enthusiast
“My 3rd & 4th grades sons loved it!...The 3rd grade son struggles with spellingand grammar—He really got into the game.”
—Jennifer Whitmer, elementary school administrator and mother of four
“As an adult I enjoyed being able to brush up on my skills...A very valuable classroom tool.”
—Salina Gibson, author
“I teach a college grammar class and I think the repetition of identifying parts of a sentence would help my students tremendously.”
—Timi Ross Poeppelman, college professor
Awards for Grammar Girl
Grammar Girl products have a proven track record for excellence in education.
2012 International Reading Association Teachers’ Choice (for Grammar Girl Presents the Ultimate Writing Guide for Students)
2012 101 Best Websites for Writers – Writer's Digest ("Best of the Best")
2012 Nominee, Best Education Podcast – Podcast Awards
2012 Nominee, Best Education Podcast – Stitcher Awards
2011 101 Best Websites for Writers – Writer's Digest
2010 101 Best Websites for Writers – Writer's Digest
2010 Best Classic Podcast – iTunes
2009 Best Classic Podcast – iTunes
Reviews
Grammar Pop
MemaKaren
I was excited to find this app, not only as a refresher for me but a fun introduction to language for my grandchildren. You can well understand my frustration when I downloaded this app and was told it didn't work on the older models of IPad's, which is what I own!
Grammar Pop
VASkiSteve
The iPhone app seems to be in electronic purgatory. I bought and downloaded it but it's nowhere to be found. When I try to download again, I get the helpful message that I've already downloaded it. Drat.
Short on game play
Lukeaficion
I finished all the levels in a little over a day. And going back and repeating the levels to the highest level ("professor") took another day. Thus my biggest complaint is this game needs more play and more grammar to learn. Also, the gerund vs. participle is confusing. Game did help me learn parts of sentences.
Could be Fun
Jedidath
Even with multiple taps on the correct answer the game does not always acknowledge the answer. You run out of time because the game refuses your choice.
Fun and Smart with a Few Miscategorizations
DrPeppie
I've played every level, so clearly I love this game. It is a nice refresher course that's also entertaining. Like other reviewers, I noted a few miscategorizations ("spelling" in "spelling bee" isn't a gerund; "there" is miscast as a pronoun). Others I recall were "up" in "catch up" (in that case, it's an adverb, not a preposition) and "her," "their," "my," etc. (they aren't pronouns—but "hers," "his," "theirs," and "mine" would be). Anyway, those issues only made me feel stronger in my grammar, which I gather is the point of the game. Mission accomplished! Thanks!
Need more time to read the sentence
Mingjup
English is my second language so I need more time to read the sentence. I hope the update will have a choice of time.
Grammar Girl Rocks
Riptide360
My 4th grade daughter and I played Grammar Girl after dinner for an hour and only got through level 5 with 3 stats. She laughed that Dad struggled with adjectives vs adverbs and we both learned lots! We bought this thinking it was more like the PBS Word Girl, but it is it's own thing with sentence clouds that you click each word's type (noun, verb, adjective, adverb or article). If they update this app I have 2 suggestions: 1 - Make a boy version so boys will be inclined to play. 2 - Add an animated song for helping users remember which is word type is (noun - person, place or thing). That way kids who don't know the difference between adjectives and adverbs won't have to learn the hard way by constantly clicking the wrong item.
