Presented. By. Nada El-Khoury. RMTC. Quick overview. What i

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Presented By Nada El-Khoury RMTC
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• Quick overview
• What is Clicker 5?
• How can it be used?
• Resources
• Steps to creating a Talking Book.

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What is Clicker 5?

• It is a writing support and
• multi-media tool for children of
• all abilities.

It can be used to support teaching and learning
in all subject areas
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Clicker Writer

• Has a talking word processor
• Can write without using a keyboard
• Can write by selecting a pre-set group of words.
  
• Has realistic speech support
• Highlights words when spoken
• Writes with pictures they appear as you write
• Can use animations CD sold separately
• Uses Mayer-Johnson PCS symbols for communication

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Writing with pre-set words
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Writing with pictures
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Writing with animations
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Clicker Grids

• Has a variety of uses
• talking books
• multimedia presentations
• labeling activities
• sentence building
• vocabulary activities

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Full-screen grids without word processor
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Pop-up grids to write talking books
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Labeling
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Matching beginning and ending sentences.
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• Use word banks to record an account of an event
• Each grid focuses on a specific element

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Vocabulary Activities

• Extend vocabulary
• As a group, decide on alternatives for words
• Add the words to the word bank

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Writing

• 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 it for Procedures

• Add your own words to blank cells
• Personalizes the information and vocabulary

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Recounting Events

• Writing frames help learners structure their
  retelling of a familiar story

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Link Reading and Writing activities

• Learners become familiar with the text in the
  book, and then create their own books to
  consolidate their learning