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Clicker is fun... and learning too
The Teacher, March 2000

Ann Logan selects some of the best resources online and enjoys a new CD Rom for reading and writing.

This CD Rom is an interest-grabbing writing and reading tool. It is easy to use and is designed for a wide variety of abilities. Work with early readers, challenge your older writers or help struggling readers.

The Clicker 4 screen is colourful and inviting, it is divided into a talking word processor (Clicker Writer) and grids, which hold words, pictures and sounds. Type in the word processor or click on words in the grid to build sentences or a story. Choose the words on the grid or add your own. The computer will read each sentence back to you!

There are thousands of ideas to encourage pupils to write as well as develop their IT skills. Choose pictures from the well-stocked libraries or add ones you have taken.

Clicker4 is also a multimedia tool. Make a picture dictionary in French or create a report about your school, using children’s own photos, voices —and even video clips.

This software can also be used to develop reading skills. Create information grids about, say, people’s jobs. Children can read and listen to the text. Link these to grids for writing, so children can write down sentences about what they have understood.

Add to Clicker by using the additional grids, which have been designed by teachers, on the Clicker website. Visit Clicker grids for Learning at http://www.cricksoft.com/cgfl

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