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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
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• Use linked sentence-building grids to build a piece of writing• Move between grids using the arrows• Text in Clicker Writer stays the same
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• ‘Forced order’ activities teach left-to-right sentence construction• Only some cells are active at a time, ensuring grammatical sense
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• Provide a model sentence• See and hear the sentence before building it• Hear your own sentence and compare visually and aurally
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• ‘Look-cover-write-check’• Click to view the sentence in a pop-up• Must close the pop-up before constructing the sentence
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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
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• Write using the grid AND the keyboard• Grid provides sentence starters and vocabulary• Use keyboard for any further text
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• Use grids for word banks• Enter words into the grid with the class• A great interactive whiteboard activity for any subject
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• 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
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• Extend vocabulary• As a group, decide on alternatives for words• Add the words to the word bank
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• Word bank grids support keyboard writing• Provide words that are difficult to spell• Provide key words to complete all elements of a subject
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• Writing frames guide learners through a writing activity• Use to support discussion• Provide sentence starters and links to supporting arguments
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• Use for explanation• Use a writing frame with links to blank word banks• Add appropriate vocabulary to the blank cells
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• Use a structured framework to provide alternative choices for constructing a story
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• Use Clicker to create talking books• Add pictures, text, sound, and video• Recall and share facts or events in an exciting way
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• 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
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• Relevant to any teaching topic
• Reluctant or struggling readers can click on a button to hear the text
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• Provide alternative versions of books• Differentiate using the same pictures/sound/video• Learners have resources matched to their abilities
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• Write your own stories or accounts using pop-up grids• Provide the words needed for emerging or struggling
writers
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• Create books to support other languages
• Many French and Spanish resources on the LearningGrids.com website
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• Create books to support other languages
• Many French and Spanish resources on the LearningGrids.com website
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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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• Record your own account• Use a microphone to record your own voice• Speak the text on the page, or talk about the picture
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• Use for labeling, sorting, matching, and sequencing• Provides reinforcement of learning objectives• Ideal for class, group, or individual work
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• Use for labeling, sorting, matching, and sequencing• Provides reinforcement of learning objectives• Ideal for class, group, or individual work
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• 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
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• Use Clicker’s high-quality graphics library, or your own photos
• Labeling activities are ideal for teaching foreign languages
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• Reinforce and enhance math skills• Many free math activities available at LearningGrids.com
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• Label and classify objects• Use two pop-up grids to both label AND classify a picture
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• Engage a whole class or group in an interactive activity• Students take turns to complete the chart
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• Let learners show understanding• Pop-up grids can have as few or as many items as you like
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• Develop phonic awareness using pictures and/or words• Sort words or pictures according to their sounds• Reinforcement activities offer visual and auditory cues
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• Promote class or small group discussions
• Create open-ended activities to reinforce reasoning skills and develop speaking and listening skills
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• Matching activities include:– Picture matching
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• Matching activities include:– Word and picture matching
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• Matching activities include:– Number matching
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• Sequencing activities include:– Picture sequencing
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• Sequencing activities include:– Number sequencing
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• Sequencing activities include:– Sequencing sentences
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• Sequencing activities include:– Sequencing events or statements
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