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In Your Classroom
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In Your Classroom
• Reads aloud any text, highlighting words• Shows pictures above words• Capitalizes proper nouns and words at start of sentences
In Your Classroom
• Use linked sentence-building grids to build a piece of writing• Move between grids using the arrows• Text in Clicker Writer stays the same
In Your Classroom
• ‘Forced order’ activities teach left-to-right sentence construction• Only some cells are active at a time, ensuring grammatical sense
In Your Classroom
• Provide a model sentence• See and hear the sentence before building it• Hear your own sentence and compare visually and aurally
In Your Classroom
• ‘Look-cover-write-check’• Click to view the sentence in a pop-up• Must close the pop-up before constructing the sentence
In Your Classroom
• Use sentence starters and endings in the grid• Match them together to build sentences
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• Scaffold a whole piece of writing – not just a sentence• Each grid has a small number of words• Move to next grid to see words for next part of story
In Your Classroom
• Write using the grid AND the keyboard• Grid provides sentence starters and vocabulary• Use keyboard for any further text
In Your Classroom
• Use grids for word banks• Enter words into the grid with the class• A great interactive whiteboard activity for any subject
In Your Classroom
• Use a word bank as a ‘menu’• Click on a cell to go to writing grid• Writing grid contains a word bank with relevant vocabulary
In Your Classroom
• Use word banks to record an account of an event• Each grid focuses on a specific element
In Your Classroom
• Extend vocabulary• As a group, decide on alternatives for words• Add the words to the word bank
In Your Classroom
• Word bank grids support keyboard writing• Provide words that are difficult to spell• Provide key words to complete all elements of a subject
In Your Classroom
• Writing frames guide learners through a writing activity• Use to support discussion• Provide sentence starters and links to supporting arguments
In Your Classroom
• Use for procedures• Add your own words to blank cells• Personalizes the information and vocabulary
In Your Classroom
• Use for recounting• Writing frames help learners structure their retelling of a
familiar story
In Your Classroom
• Use for explanation• Use a writing frame with links to blank word banks• Add appropriate vocabulary to the blank cells
In Your Classroom
• Use a structured framework to provide alternative choices for constructing a story
In Your Classroom
• Use Clicker to create talking books• Add pictures, text, sound, and video• Recall and share facts or events in an exciting way
In Your Classroom
• Learners can create their own talking books, selecting pictures, words or phrases from pop-up grids
• Create your own books to focus on a particular teaching point or vocabulary
In Your Classroom
• Relevant to any teaching topic• Reluctant or struggling readers can click on a button to hear
the text
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• Engage disaffected readers• Adapt text and images in a talking book to the interest and
ability of the student
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• Talking books provide opportunities for overlearning• Highlight and reinforce key vocabulary
In Your Classroom
• A stimulus for further activities• Ask questions within books to encourage further discussion
In Your Classroom
• Create personalized resources• Students’ personal copies provide useful records of their
reading fluency and accuracy
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• Provide alternative versions of books• Differentiate using the same pictures/sound/video• Learners have resources matched to their abilities
In Your Classroom
• Link reading and writing activities• Learners become familiar with the text in the book, and then
create their own books to consolidate their learning
In Your Classroom
• Link reading and writing activities• Learners become familiar with the text in the book, and then
create their own books to consolidate their learning
In Your Classroom
• Link reading and writing activities• Learners become familiar with the text in the book, and then
create their own books to consolidate their learning
In Your Classroom
• Record an instruction, comment or question• Focuses the learner on a particular issue
In Your Classroom
• Create books to support other languages• Many French and Spanish resources on the
LearningGrids.com website
In Your Classroom
• Create books to support other languages• Many French and Spanish resources on the
LearningGrids.com website
In Your Classroom
• Write your own stories or accounts using pop-up grids• Provide the words needed for emerging or struggling
writers
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• Reinforce vocabulary for reading and writing• Use the same vocabulary in reading and writing versions of
the same book
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• Determine the order of the content of a book• First choose a picture and then choose appropriate words or
phrases
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• Determine the order of the content of a book• First choose a picture and then choose appropriate words or
phrases
In Your Classroom
• Record your own account• Use a microphone to record your own voice• Speak the text on the page, or talk about the picture
In Your Classroom
• Use for labeling, sorting, matching, and sequencing• Provides reinforcement of learning objectives• Ideal for class, group, or individual work
In Your Classroom
• Use for labeling, sorting, matching, and sequencing• Provides reinforcement of learning objectives• Ideal for class, group, or individual work
In Your Classroom
• Use for labeling, sorting, matching, and sequencing• Provides reinforcement of learning objectives• Ideal for class, group, or individual work
In Your Classroom
• Labeling activities – click on a blank cell to view a pop-up, and select a word from the word bank pop-up
• Listen to the options in the word bank before you select
In Your Classroom
• Use Clicker’s high-quality graphics library, or your own photos
• Labeling activities are ideal for teaching foreign languages
In Your Classroom
• Reinforce and enhance math skills• Many free math activities available at LearningGrids.com
In Your Classroom
• Label and classify objects• Use two pop-up grids to both label AND classify a picture
In Your Classroom
• Engage a whole class or group in an interactive activity• Students take turns to complete the chart
In Your Classroom
• Use complementary activities to provide a written record of the activity
In Your Classroom
• Let learners show understanding• Pop-up grids can have as few or as many items as you like
In Your Classroom
• Let learners show understanding• Pop-up grids can have as few or as many items as you like
In Your Classroom
• Let learners show understanding• Pop-up grids can have as few or as many items as you like
In Your Classroom
• Develop phonic awareness using pictures and/or words• Sort words or pictures according to their sounds• Reinforcement activities offer visual and auditory cues
In Your Classroom
• Promote class or small group discussions• Create open-ended activities to reinforce reasoning skills and
develop speaking and listening skills
In Your Classroom
• Matching activities include:– Picture matching
In Your Classroom
• Matching activities include:– Word and picture matching
In Your Classroom
• Matching activities include:– Number matching
In Your Classroom
• Sequencing activities include:– Picture sequencing
In Your Classroom
• Sequencing activities include:– Number sequencing
In Your Classroom
• Sequencing activities include:– Sequencing sentences
In Your Classroom
• Sequencing activities include:– Sequencing events or statements
In Your Classroom
• Sequencing activities include:– Sequence learning by linking grids
In Your Classroom
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