Make writing tasks fun and accessible for every learner with this child-friendly word processor for iPads and Chromebooks.
At the heart of Clicker sits a child-friendly word processor. What sets Clicker apart from other word processors is the extensive support it offers to emergent, developing and struggling readers and writers. With Clicker, every child can become an independent writer.
Realistic speech feedback – students have an opportunity to hear their work read back to them in a friendly, age-appropriate voice that they can identify with.
- Encourage students to punctuate their work, review each sentence and make more sense of what they are trying to put together
- Settings can be changed to have each word or even letter read as it’s entered
- Words highlighted as they are spoken
Voice Notes – Students can record their own audio notes before they write to rehearse their sentences and capture their initial thoughts and ideas.
- Add colour coded voice notes right to your document. Students tackling longer pieces of writing may find it useful to record a Voice Note for each paragraph, creating an audio plan to help them put together a coherent, logically structured document.
Intelligent word prediction – a built-in predictor to support struggling spellers. Both the predictor and customizable spell checker are speech supported.
- Powerful SoundsLike technology works out what the letter string being typed sounds like and offers words beginning with a similar sound.
- Personalize predicted words to any of the four available levels or customize your own.
Clicker Grids give students point-and-click access to whole words, phrases and pictures. Each kind of Clicker Set provides a specific writing support or targets a particular skill. Clicker makes creating and editing Clicker Sets easier than ever, so you can quickly provide content for any topic.
Create your own Clicker Sets or customize ready-made ones on the LearningGrids website.
Sentence Sets
Each grid in a Sentence Set contains all the words you need to build a sentence. A model sentence can be shown on the grid, in a pop-up, or aurally to provide the appropriate level of support.
Sentence Sets develop important literacy skills such as left-to-right directionality and the accurate use of capital letters and periods. You can create a Sentence Set for your students by simply typing or pasting your sentences.
Connect Sets
Connect Sets help developing writers, struggling writers and English language learners to take their first steps to independent writing.
Students are provided with clusters of words, phrases and/or pictures to help them build a coherent piece of text. As with all Clicker Sets, students can listen to any word or phrase before adding it to their sentence.
Word Banks
When children are ready to write using the keyboard, they may still need support with the more difficult words. Build Word Banks to support any curriculum area - just paste relevant text and let Clicker do the rest, automatically removing the high frequency words.
Word Banks are organized in tabs to provide access alphabetically or through topic areas. It’s now even easier to create and edit Word Banks, and you can use them for writing frames, too.
Help children find the word they want by adding pictures to your Sentence Sets, Connect Sets and Word Banks.
Includes the enhanced CrickPix library of over 4,500 curriculum-related pictures that can be easily incorporated into documents and writing grids. You can use your own photos and drawn images.
LearningGrids is an ever-growing bank of free, ready-made Clicker resources created by a team of experienced teachers. Choose from thousands of engaging activities and grids covering a wide range of curriculum topics to save yourself hours of lesson preparation time.
- Includes Sentence Sets, Connect Sets and Word Banks aligned to curriculum topics, themes and objectives
- Search the library by topic, keyword and age-range
LearningGrids resources can be easily and quickly modified – enabling a group of children to work on exactly the same resource, but with differing levels of support.
Clicker Writer gives you unique insight into each learner’s writing process, helping you make informed decisions about their current support levels and most effective next steps.
(requires Clicker 8 for Windows/Mac to access Analytics reports).
Change how the app looks and acts to meet each child’s learning needs. Adjust the Predictor and speech settings, use high contrast colour schemes, or turn on our SuperKeys accessible keyboard.
Help every child become an independent reader
Intuitive, child-friendly and easy-to-use, Clicker Books empowers students of all abilities to read more independently.
- Hear the text on the page read aloud in Clicker’s clear, realistic voice.
- Each word is highlighted as it’s read.
- Tap on any word the student is struggling with to have it read to them.
- Book sets have the “Read It Yourself” version, designed to encourage students to access the content independently.
Instantly access hundreds of ready-made resources
Get access to a growing bank of professional Clicker Books covering a wide range of curriculum topics.
Head to Story Corner for beautifully illustrated traditional tales, myths and legends, as well as the Planet Wobble series. If it’s nonfiction texts you’re after, explore our subject categories – including social studies and science.
Edit any of the ready-made Clicker Books to tailor the subject matter and comprehension level to your students’ particular learning needs, interests and objectives.
Incorporate your own photos, or create new pictures using the integrated painting tools. You can even record and upload videos.
Get creative with child-friendly book making
Give students the opportunity to create their very own books, complete with pictures, text, sound, and video. With the help of realistic speech feedback, word prediction and picture support, students can demonstrate their knowledge in a way that’s creative, accessible and fun.
Share resources
With built-in cloud storage, work can be seamlessly shared across devices, allowing smooth transitions between activities.
With the Universal Site License, students can even continue their work at home.
Boost core language knowledge
Listen and Say activities enable younger learners and emergent English speakers to familiarize themselves with core vocabulary. On each page, students click on the picture to listen to the word or phrase and then record, rerecording as many times as they like. All recordings are collated for review once the task is completed.
Offer alternative paths to success
For students struggling to express their knowledge in writing, Talk About activities help to break down barriers to literacy and offer learners an alternative way to demonstrate their understanding.
The activities provide teachers with a valuable record of students comprehension of key topics and concepts.
Create a classroom of storytellers
Tell the Story activities break storytelling down into manageable steps, helping students practice and internalize story patterns and language and to understand narrative ‘building blocks’.
These activities are also perfect for exploring a sequence of events or the steps of a process, such as making a sandwich or the life cycle of a plant.
Access hundreds of ready-made activities
Choose from a huge selection of activities on LearningGrids, available within the app. Activities cover a wide variety of curriculum topics across different levels. Or create your own in seconds using the included curriculum picture library or any photos.
Share resources
With built-in cloud storage, work can be seamlessly shared across devices, allowing smooth transitions between activities.
With the Universal Site License, students can even continue their work at home.
Getting Started with Clicker Apps: Clicker Writer, Books, and Talk (by Crick Software)
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