English Language learners
Clicker is widely used to teach children to understand, speak, and write in English.
Talking Books | | Practice speaking skills |
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. | | 
Creating Clicker talking books is a perfect way to practice 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 practice their English. |
Develop writing skills | | |
Modelled sentence grids are a powerful way to help learners to internalize 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. | | 
Forced order grids reinforce simple sentence structure by only allowing words to be selected in the correct order from left to right. 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 website. |
Activities to teach and practice 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 resources The extensive range of free resources on our LearningGrids site is widely used with English language learners. |