Rainbow Sentences is another app put out my Mobile Education Store, the same developers of Conversation Builder, Language Builder, Preposition Builder….all the Builder apps basically. I love all the apps put out by this developer because you always know what you’re going to get. And what you get are highly reliable, easy to use apps that target what they intend to target. I don’t
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Expanding: This is simply repeating what a child has said and expanding on it through the addition of more complex or descriptive language. For example, if a child states, “red car” you can easily expand on this phrase by saying “Yes, the red car drives fast.” Expansion is a great language strategy to use because you are using what the child is already interested
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My lessons this week have targeted the skill of understanding time, the past, present and future and how that relates to verb tenses. Students with significant language delays and autism have a very difficult time understanding the passing of time. I have struggled for many years to figure out the best way to teach this concept with varying levels of failure. Tense Builder has
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I really enjoyed the post by GeekSLP, Gaming into education: Can even Angry Birds promote learning? where she talked about how many different apps/games can be used to target language objectives, even Angry Birds! Most of my favorite apps to use are not specifically developed as language apps. In fact, when an app is made specifically for entertainment they are obviously much more captivating. A
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I first wanted to pass along that ClickySticky will be donating 100% of its November earnings to Autism Speaks to help fund research, treatment and prevention of Autism. In the spirit of raising awareness, I figured this would be the perfect time to review the app. I have used ClickySticky primarily with my students with language delays to target things like vocabulary by category,
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