Sentence builder is the Ipad equivalent of cut up pieces of paper. You know, when you cut up sentences and ask the students to manipulate the paper so that they get the right order. When IWBs made their appearance, this could be replicated into a drag and order exercise. Well this app saves the cutting up and means if you don’t have an IWB you need only hook your Ipad to a projector.
The app has a free version with a limited number of prefabricated sentences for you to use or a paid version (£1.99 on the UK app store), which gives you hundreds more.
While I concede that so many sentences might be a bit of chore to link to the grammar point you are teaching; as a whole the app provides a good basis for a team game and general revision of sentence order. In addition the app has a picture for each sentence thus adding a bit of colour and help for the visual learner and also had all the sentences and words audio linked so students can hear them as well.
However as useful as all that it is, like most apps I ends up reviewing , the best bits come when you get away from the given content and start to create your own and sentence builder lets you do with ease.
The apps gives you foolproof steps for you to upload your own photos or pics, type in your sentences, record your own voice. You can even add distractor words and in seconds create your own sentences for the class to play with or even better the students can create their own for each other. So not only do students get to play with word order, they get to practice spelling and pronunciation as well.