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On-screen Talking Books

Clicker talking books provide an exciting opportunity for both reading and writing.
There are lots of ready-made books available, and it is incredibly easy to create your own using digital photos and your own voice. You can even add video!

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Clicker Books for reading

Children needs lots of exposure to books as they develop their literacy skills, and Clicker books are an important ingredient in the range of reading materials in your classroom. Clicker Books give you the following benefits:

• They are very accessible – just a forward and back button to turn the pages and a speech button to hear the text.
• They can use either digitized speech or a real sound recording.
• Students are able to read the books independently.
• Books can be combined with supporting comprehension and writing activities (e.g. the Planet Wobble series)
• Clicker Books make great centerpieces for your whiteboard lessons.

Personalize your reading materials by creating your own Clicker Books – you can do it in just minutes! Drag and drop in digital photos from the computer or directly from your camera and then record your voice using Clicker's built-in sound recorder. Add text, or leave it as a picture book. It's easy to drop in video too.

Make books about your class or about a recent trip. Create personal books for individual students containing pictures and voices from their family. Create books on the fly with a group of students – making Clicker Books is a simple yet innovative way to give students new experiences in reading and writing.

Clicker Books for writing

Making Clicker Books is not only easy for the teacher – you can give your students the opportunity to create Clicker Books too. Younger or struggling students, start with a template that offers them pop-up grids to enter their text and pictures, plus a sound recording button to record their voice.

Creating Clicker Books becomes even more powerful when you have Clicker Paint installed. This fully integrates with Clicker to enable students to create their own illustrations for their books with the child-friendly painting tools.

Early or struggling readers are especially motivated by the experience of creating their own books. You'll find lots of templates on our LearningGrids World site, and of course it's easy to create your own.

Sources of ready-made Clicker Books

Find a wealth of ready-made Clicker Books from the following sources:

1. There are over 70 talking books in the Language Arts section on our free LearningGrids World site - and many more in the other categories, covering a wide variety of curriculum areas.
2. The accessiblebookcollection.org website has over 100 Clicker Books. Some of these have been built by Crick Software, and others by practicing teachers.
3. Planet Wobble is our award-winning reading series for struggling readers and writers. It contains 18 graded Clicker Books and includes printed copies of the books too, plus lots of Clicker writing activities.
4. Find Out and Write About – our award-winning non-fiction series covers many curriculum areas and has linked writing activities from every page, enabling students to write their own reports.