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Learn-as-you-laugh language and vocabulary app for ages 8+

Shake your iPhone/iPad, Android or Windows 8 device to create a new silly sentence every time. Tap on the words to see the definitions. Perfect for learning in the classroom or on the go, this lightweight educational app features over 2000 words and definitions in 5 colorful and engaging themes - Animals, Fairytale, Monsters, Sports and Starter!

There are 3 ways to shake up a storm of wacky, funny sentences:

  • Shake It - creates a new random sentence every time you shake - great for learning new words.
  • Story Starter - shake up a story beginning and let your imagination run.
  • Quiz Me - test your skills with adjectives, verbs, nouns, prepositions and conjunctions. Tap on the right words to get points and gain levels.

Save the most hilarious sentences in Faves and share them via email, SMS or Twitter.

  • 3 ways to play
  • 5 fun, colorful themes - Animals, Fairytale, Monsters, Sports & Starter!
  • 2000+ word definitions
  • Endless laughter!

Get it on Google playAvailable at the Amazon AppstoreAvailable at the Windows Store

  • Shake-a-Phrase start screen
  • Sports theme
  • Vocab helper
  • Sports quiz mode
  • Story starter mode
  • Quiz mode
  • Quiz mode
  • Options
  • Theme selection
  • Favorites
  • Shake-a-Phrase start screen
  • Sports theme
  • Vocab helper
  • Sports quiz mode
  • Story starter mode
  • Quiz mode
  • Quiz mode
  • Options
  • Theme selection
  • Favorites

Fun Educational Apps calls Shake-a-Phrase a must have app!
- funeducationalapps.com

Shake-a-Phrase makes language learning fun.
- Edudemic

Every once in a while an app comes along that makes me think to myself, "I wish I had thought of that." That is exactly what I thought when I used Shake-a-Phrase for the first time.
- iApps For Teachers

Shake-a-Phrase is as silly and one of a kind as its sentences and a clever way to keep children learning.
- The iPhone Mom

Shake-A-Phrase is too fun! I couldn’t stop pressing the next button to see what silly sentence was in store for me next!
- I Education Apps Review

App Advice says this handy little app is perfect for writers, party games and quizzing kids!
- appadvice.com

Famigo Approved

Shaking up the Classroom

For the second year running, a 3rd Grade teacher at the Patricia A. DiChiaro School in Westchester, NY, used Shake-a-Phrase for a Halloween creative writing exercise in her classroom. Mrs. Colacicco, shook up a bunch of Monster-themed Story Starters, printed the individual Starter screens, and engaged her class in a collaborative writer’s workshop. Using the story prompts, the students worked together in groups of 2-3, to imagine and write their own creepy and silly story endings. Read more...