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Pupils use Clicker talking books independently. Listening to the text while studying the picture helps to introduce new words and develop understanding. You can even make bilingual talking books, where the pupil records in his or her first language on one button, and in English on another. As well as demonstrating that their first language is valued, the completed bilingual books make useful teaching materials for other English language learners. |
Practise speaking skills
Creating Clicker talking books is a perfect way to practise speaking skills. For example, make a picture book of a familiar environment and let the pupil record his or her voice on each page, naming the relevant objects.
Alternatively, have an additional button that gives the learner a model sentence or word to listen to. They then record their own voice and compare it to the original. Pupils record their voice any number of times until they are satisfied. This is a non-threatening way for English language learners to be able to rehearse and practise their English. |
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Develop writing skills
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Use sentence building grids to teach pupils to write simple sentences.
Modelled sentence grids are a powerful way to help learners to internalise language by providing a model sentence for the pupil to look at and listen to. The model appears in a popup, and although the pupil can open the popup whenever they wish, they can only write words into their own sentence while the popup is closed.
A variation on this is to add a record button, so that the learners record their own voice reading the sentence when they have completed it. |
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Colour coded sentence building grids are another great way to reinforce sentence structure.
You will find lots of ready-made sentence building grids freely available on our LearningGrids World website.
Forced order grids reinforce simple sentence structure by only allowing words to be selected in the correct order from left to right. |
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Activities to teach and practise specific vocabulary |
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By creating activities with sets of alternative choices, you can use Clicker to teach specific vocabulary or language conventions. |
LearningGrids World resources
The extensive range of free resources on our LearningGrids World site is widely used with English language learners.
Find out more about using Clicker with English language learners in our Clicker in the Curriculum Guide. |
