Students learn better with color coding, which is why Rainbow Sentences was developed on this concept. Students can improve their grammatical construction of sentences with the aid of color cues. In this app, every part that makes up a sentence is color-coded, enabling learners to quickly recognize and understand the building blocks of basic sentence structures. Every part of speech from nouns, pronouns, verbs, and prepositions is covered in this educational app. For better cognition and comprehension, learners can record sentences in their voices on the app.

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What Users Love About the App

“I use Rainbow Sentences because it has students think carefully about constructing grammatically correct sentences in a colorful and playful way. In the settings menu, the teacher can scaffold the sentence building so that beginning kindergarteners all the way up to around the end of second-grade level students can be challenged and successful.”

“This app is fantastic in that it can be adjusted to fit any level. The word grouping, difficulty levels, and the ability to use line color and word color-coding or turn them off are amazing! I have a 5 yo with autism and an atypical 7 yo and they both are learning a LOT from this app.”

“The cartoon art is engaging, funny, and well done. My kids adore that the reward is a puzzle that animates at the end. I am thrilled at the reporting system and the ability to record the sentence, which gets them to practice reading aloud.”

“Rainbow Sentences is a great app that allows children to learn the structuring of sentences on three levels with audio, word color, and word grouping. From a teacher standpoint, this app is a great reinforcer to the 5 W’s of Writing…Who, What, Where, When, and Why.”

“I love this app because it is a great structured way to support syntax development for writing and speaking. The color-coding also allowed us to use it to target asking and answering questions. We used color-coded “question word” cards that corresponded to the parts of speech that answered each question.”

What Users Dislike About the App

“One problem I have with the app is that you cannot go from a sentence that you are building to the settings or statistics page until/unless you correctly build the sentence. This creates unnecessary hassle if you want to quickly check-in on a student’s progress or changes the difficulty.”

“The app is just what I have been looking for, but every time I open the app I am forced to dismiss an ad for another app the company sells. If this was a free app, then I would expect that, but this is a paid app. Remove the ads.”

“I am used to seeing another app advertising when I open the app, but it easily is closed. I use this app in Occupational Therapy in schools. Today there is an advertisement for another Mobile app that I cannot get rid of. I don’t want to erase the app, but it is worthless like this.”

“I downloaded this, tried to make it work, re-loaded it, looking for support, adjusted settings – nothing. It tells me there are words but all I get is a picture and no words. I don’t know how to contact support other than to leave this feedback.”

“The one thing I would change is also actually labeling for the child the parts of speech. I am a mom with 4 children, one with autism. Unless I sit with him and we do it together, he learns how to build the sentence, but does not know what in the noun, verb, etc unless I teach it.”