From the Press Release
Quick and Dirty Tips, a Macmillan property, today released Grammar Pop, a fun new word game for the iPad, designed to help players master parts of speech. It was created by Mignon Fogarty, the Grammar Girl podcast host and New York Times best-selling author.
Grammar Pop lets users match words in sentences with 1 of 11 speech parts. The game starts off with the basics (nouns, verbs, and articles) and advances through 14,000 words and 28 levels of difficulty. Higher levels include more advanced concepts, such as gerunds, participles, and infinitives. Users can start at Level 1 or move between levels at will, collecting coin prizes and earning achievements along the way.
Grammar Pop is appropriate for children and adults of all ages and grammar levels. The game includes “help” text that reviews the parts of speech. Additional supporting educational content is also available at GrammarPop.com for teachers who wish to include Grammar Pop in their language-curriculum.
“Grammar Pop represents the perfect extension of the Grammar Girl brand and its focus on making education fun and accessible. We’re delighted to be introducing an app that’s so true to our mission of providing quick, useful ways for millions of fans around the world to do things better and smarter,” said Kathy Doyle, director of Quick and Dirty Tips, one of Macmillan’s most heavily trafficked digital property with nearly 4 million unique monthly visitors.
“I was looking for a game like Grammar Pop to play myself and couldn’t find anything – so this started as an app for people who love word games and want something more challenging than the average fare. It quickly became apparent that teachers and parents loved it, too, because it’s a fun way for kids, even very young ones, to practice the things they’re learning in school about parts of speech. Even though I’ve spent hundreds of hours testing the game, I enjoy it so much that I still play it just for fun sometimes.” Fogarty said.
Dozens of Grammar Girl fans, many of them English language educators, beta tested Grammar Pop, giving it high marks for its fast, fun pace, and its ability to help players truly master parts of speech. Quick and Dirty Tips consulted a linguist to ensure the highest level of accuracy, and Fogarty also compared the game sentences to the Common Core standards to ensure that the sentences represent a wide range of the concepts educators are striving to teach.
The app sells for $1.99 at the iTunes store and discount group rates are available for academic institutions. More information is available at www.grammarpop.com.