2. In Your Classroom
• Reads aloud any text, highlighting words
• Shows pictures above words
• Capitalizes proper nouns and words at start of sentences
3. 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
4. In Your Classroom
• ‘Forced order’ activities teach left-to-right sentence
construction
• Only some cells are active at a time, ensuring grammatical
sense
5. In Your Classroom
• Provide a model sentence
• See and hear the sentence before building it
• Hear your own sentence and compare visually and aurally
6. 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
7. In Your Classroom
• Use sentence starters and endings in the grid
• Match them together to build sentences
8. In Your Classroom
• 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
9. In Your Classroom
• Write using the grid AND the keyboard
• Grid provides sentence starters and vocabulary
• Use keyboard for any further text
10. In Your Classroom
• Use grids for word banks
• Enter words into the grid with the class
• A great interactive whiteboard activity for any subject
11. 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
12. In Your Classroom
• Use word banks to record an account of an event
• Each grid focuses on a specific element
13. In Your Classroom
• Extend vocabulary
• As a group, decide on alternatives for words
• Add the words to the word bank
14. 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
15. In Your Classroom
• Writing frames guide learners through a writing activity
• Use to support discussion
• Provide sentence starters and links to supporting arguments
16. In Your Classroom
• Use for procedures
• Add your own words to blank cells
• Personalizes the information and vocabulary
17. In Your Classroom
• Use for recounting
• Writing frames help learners structure their retelling of a
familiar story
18. In Your Classroom
• Use for explanation
• Use a writing frame with links to blank word banks
• Add appropriate vocabulary to the blank cells
19. In Your Classroom
• Use a structured framework to provide alternative choices
for constructing a story
20. 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
21. 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
22. In Your Classroom
• Relevant to any teaching topic
• Reluctant or struggling readers can click on a button to
hear the text
23. In Your Classroom
• Engage disaffected readers
• Adapt text and images in a talking book to the interest and
ability of the student
24. In Your Classroom
• Talking books provide opportunities for overlearning
• Highlight and reinforce key vocabulary
25. In Your Classroom
• A stimulus for further activities
• Ask questions within books to encourage further discussion
26. In Your Classroom
• Create personalized resources
• Students’ personal copies provide useful records of their
reading fluency and accuracy
27. In Your Classroom
• Provide alternative versions of books
• Differentiate using the same pictures/sound/video
• Learners have resources matched to their abilities
28. 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
29. 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
30. 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
31. In Your Classroom
• Record an instruction, comment or question
• Focuses the learner on a particular issue
32. In Your Classroom
• Create books to support other languages
• Many French and Spanish resources on the
LearningGrids.com website
33. In Your Classroom
• Create books to support other languages
• Many French and Spanish resources on the
LearningGrids.com website
34. In Your Classroom
• Write your own stories or accounts using pop-up grids
• Provide the words needed for emerging or struggling
writers
35. In Your Classroom
• Reinforce vocabulary for reading and writing
• Use the same vocabulary in reading and writing versions of
the same book
36. In Your Classroom
• Determine the order of the content of a book
• First choose a picture and then choose appropriate words
or phrases
37. In Your Classroom
• Determine the order of the content of a book
• First choose a picture and then choose appropriate words
or phrases
38. 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
39. In Your Classroom
• Use for labeling, sorting, matching, and sequencing
• Provides reinforcement of learning objectives
• Ideal for class, group, or individual work
40. In Your Classroom
• Use for labeling, sorting, matching, and sequencing
• Provides reinforcement of learning objectives
• Ideal for class, group, or individual work
41. In Your Classroom
• Use for labeling, sorting, matching, and sequencing
• Provides reinforcement of learning objectives
• Ideal for class, group, or individual work
42. 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
43. In Your Classroom
• Use Clicker’s high-quality graphics library, or your own
photos
• Labeling activities are ideal for teaching foreign languages
44. In Your Classroom
• Reinforce and enhance math skills
• Many free math activities available at LearningGrids.com
45. In Your Classroom
• Label and classify objects
• Use two pop-up grids to both label AND classify a picture
46. In Your Classroom
• Engage a whole class or group in an interactive activity
• Students take turns to complete the chart
47. In Your Classroom
• Use complementary activities to provide a written record of
the activity
48. In Your Classroom
• Let learners show understanding
• Pop-up grids can have as few or as many items as you like
49. In Your Classroom
• Let learners show understanding
• Pop-up grids can have as few or as many items as you like
50. In Your Classroom
• Let learners show understanding
• Pop-up grids can have as few or as many items as you like
51. 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
52. In Your Classroom
• Promote class or small group discussions
• Create open-ended activities to reinforce reasoning skills
and develop speaking and listening skills
