If you want to improve your English language arts skills, this is the right app for you. The goal of the app is to enrich and improve your knowledge of middle-school English language arts topics. Nonetheless, this app is suited for all ages as it covers a variety of topics with examples and contains no ads or in-app purchases.
Topics are purposely kept short, so that you can study for just 10 minutes a day but still be ready for school. Since the app also works offline, you can always sneak in a quick read or recap on your way to school or work. The app covers topics in reading, writing, grammar, spelling, and punctuation rules.
- Punctuation rules (apostrophe, colon, comma, ellipsis, em dash, en dash, hyphen, exclamation mark, parenthesis, period, question mark, quotation mark, semicolon)
- Capitalization rules
- Writing tips
- Text elements
- Figurative language (alliteration, allusion, hyperbole, idiom, metaphor, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, personification, pun, simile)
- Story elements (character, conflict, plot, point of view, resolution, setting, theme)
- Grammar terms (dependent and independent clause, number, participle, person, phrase, predicate, subject)
- Parts of speech (adjective, adverb, article, conjunction, interjection, noun, preposition, pronoun, verb)
- Tense (simple past, past perfect, past perfect continuous, simple present, present perfect, present perfect continuous, simple future, future perfect, future perfect continuous)
- Sentence types (simple, compound, complex and complex-compound sentences)
- Signpost (again and again, aha moment, contrasts and contradictions, memory moment, touch questions, words of the wiser)
- Text structure (cause and effect, compare and contrast, description, problem and solution, sequence)
- Text types (fiction, non-fiction, poetry)
- Connections (text-to-self, text-to-text, text-to-word)
