The Grammar Gorillas

The Grammar Gorillas is an interactive web page in which children can be active in their learning about writing and sentence structure.  The game has an option for beginners and advanced students.  The beginner portion is all about nouns and verbs.  The advance section is all the parts of speech.  The students will be able to learn the differences and incorporate it into their writing.  This game allows the students to read the sentence and figure out what they need to be clicking on to achieve the right answer.  When achieving the right answer they are awarded with bananas for their gorilla.  If they get the question wrong they are able to see their error and know that they have chosen the wrong option.  They also get to see the word in sentence structure which vessels a deeper understanding.

I think that this website would be most beneficial for a younger audience for English Language Arts.  I would have grade three and grade four students depending on the levels of all the students.  The students that I would interactively have used the parts of speech would be grade five. Once again depending on the level that the students are at, some students may chose to use the advanced version or the beginner version.  It will be depending on the comfort level of the students.  Not all students are the same capability level and require different lessons.  It fits into the Evergreen curriculum English Language Arts section under the Language Arts Stand section.  This section is for the understanding of viewing and representing.  The students will be able to have a visual aid and represent their knowledge of sentence structure.

I think that it would improve my student’s understanding of sentence structure because it gives a visual aid and the students have other information that they can read about with other detailed examples such as an adjective, adverb, pronoun etc.