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Students use Clicker 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 student 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. |
Practice speaking skills
Creating Clicker Books is a perfect way to practice speaking skills. For example, make a picture book of a familiar environment and let the student record his or her voice on each page, naming the relevant objects.
Alternatively, have an additional button that gives the student a model sentence or word to listen to. They then record their own voice and compare it to the original. Students 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. |
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Develop writing skills
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Use sentence building grids to teach students to write simple sentences.
Modeled sentence grids are a powerful way to help students to internalize language by providing a model sentence for the student to look at and listen to. The model appears in a popup, and although the student 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 students record their own voice reading the sentence when they have completed it. |
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Color 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 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 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 Your Classroom Guide. |
