Sentence Constructor: Hear It! Hack 2.1

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Description

Have fun and learn with the ultimate sentence building app to help students associate written words with spoken words. Make sentences by dragging words to the line, and then tap the Play button to hear them spoken back to you. If you're not sure of a word you can tap on it to hear it. Your students will learn words as they play with them. In the full app there are over 1700 distinct audio words and over 100 different boards with systematically chosen combinations of words.

Words are organized under the following categories:

Dolch Words

● 220 Primary Sight Words. They provide a basic introduction to the English language, ordered by frequency. Learn the most commonly spoken words first and move on from there. These are graded Pre-Primer, Primer, First Grade, Second Grade, and Third Grade for your convenience.

Parts of Speech

● Focus individually on Nouns, Pronouns, Adjectives, Verbs, Adverbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Articles.

Animals

● Start with the common animals around the home and neighborhood, and from there explore the words associated with different kinds of animals by where they live.

Food

● From Kitchen Utensils to national cuisines, learn the language of food!

Clothing

● Warm-weather, cold-weather, and the day to day articles.

Plants & Garden

● Tools & Language, Flowers, Trees, Soil

Holidays

● Various celebrations: Easter & Passover, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, and the Fourth of July.

Sports

● Soccer, Football, Baseball, Basketball, Hockey, and Swimming.

Geography

● Explore Countries, Continents, and a variety of geographical terms.

Music

● Learn the language of music, the names of instruments, etc.

Science

● Human Anatomy, Weather, and Astronomy. These terms permeate our daily lives.

Fun!

● Be entertained by The Over-Enthusiastic Announcer!

It's fun, and you learn to recognize words as you play with them and hear them spoken!

Version history

2.1

2016-07-31

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

Thanks for using Sentence Constructor! To make the app better for you, we bring updates to the App Store regularly. Every update of our app includes improvements for speed and reliability. As other new features become available, we will highlight those for you in the app.

2.0

2016-05-18

● The name— now also new and improved!
● Menus enhanced with animation. Also added left and right arrows as alternatives to swipe-left and swipe-right.
● Increased the contrast of text in various places to make it easier to read.
● Fixed a bug which was preventing the app from starting on some devices- in particular on iPhone 4s and iPhone 5c.
● Miscellaneous performance improvements and defect corrections.

1.1

2015-11-17

Fixed an issue where the text was sometimes slightly too large on a 3.5" screen.
Fixed an issue where a word could disappear from the screen when hitting reset.
Miscellaneous performance improvements and defect corrections.

1.0

2015-11-02