In Your Classroom

1. In Your Classroom

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 • 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

8. In Your Classroom • Write using the grid AND the keyboard • Grid provides sentence starters and vocabulary • Use keyboard for any further text

9. In Your Classroom • Use grids for word banks • Enter words into the grid with the class • A great interactive whiteboard activity for any subject

10. 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

11. In Your Classroom • Extend vocabulary • As a group, decide on alternatives for words • Add the words to the word bank

12. 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

13. In Your Classroom • Writing frames guide learners through a writing activity • Use to support discussion • Provide sentence starters and links to supporting arguments

14. In Your Classroom • Use for explanation • Use a writing frame with links to blank word banks • Add appropriate vocabulary to the blank cells

15. In Your Classroom • Use a structured framework to provide alternative choices for constructing a story

16. 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

17. 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

18. In Your Classroom • Relevant to any teaching topic • Reluctant or struggling readers can click on a button to hear the text

19. In Your Classroom • Provide alternative versions of books • Differentiate using the same pictures/sound/video • Learners have resources matched to their abilities

20. In Your Classroom • Write your own stories or accounts using pop-up grids • Provide the words needed for emerging or struggling writers

21. In Your Classroom • Create books to support other languages • Many French and Spanish resources on the LearningGrids.com website

22. In Your Classroom • Create books to support other languages • Many French and Spanish resources on the LearningGrids.com website

23. In Your Classroom • Determine the order of the content of a book • First choose a picture and then choose appropriate words or phrases

24. 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

25. In Your Classroom • Use for labeling, sorting, matching, and sequencing • Provides reinforcement of learning objectives • Ideal for class, group, or individual work

26. In Your Classroom • Use for labeling, sorting, matching, and sequencing • Provides reinforcement of learning objectives • Ideal for class, group, or individual work

27. 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

28. In Your Classroom • Use Clicker’s high-quality graphics library, or your own photos • Labeling activities are ideal for teaching foreign languages

29. In Your Classroom • Reinforce and enhance math skills • Many free math activities available at LearningGrids.com

30. In Your Classroom • Label and classify objects • Use two pop-up grids to both label AND classify a picture

31. In Your Classroom • Engage a whole class or group in an interactive activity • Students take turns to complete the chart

32. In Your Classroom • Let learners show understanding • Pop-up grids can have as few or as many items as you like

33. 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

34. In Your Classroom • Promote class or small group discussions • Create open-ended activities to reinforce reasoning skills and develop speaking and listening skills

35. In Your Classroom • Matching activities include: • Picture matching

36. In Your Classroom • Matching activities include: • Word and picture matching

37. In Your Classroom • Matching activities include: • Number matching

38. In Your Classroom • Sequencing activities include: • Picture sequencing

39. In Your Classroom • Sequencing activities include: • Number sequencing

40. In Your Classroom • Sequencing activities include: • Sequencing sentences

41. In Your Classroom • Sequencing activities include: • Sequencing events or statements

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