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.
NEW 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.