Clicker Connect for Chromebook
Enable developing writers, struggling writers, and English language learners to take their first steps toward independent writing.
A perfect ‘next step’ for Clicker Sentences users, Clicker Connect provides students with clusters of words, phrases, and/or pictures to help them build a coherent piece of text.
Designed with the classroom in mind, Clicker Connect includes the Sassoon font, speech feedback, and many other child-friendly features to create an accessible and engaging environment for students to work in.
"The app is a triumph because it is based on a simple idea that scaffolds independent writing skills...it kick-starts the writing process, helps children to be creative, and gives them a clear sense of achievement."
Teach Primary magazine
Develop independent writing skills
Students choose from clusters of words, phrases, and pictures to produce their own writing. As each sentence is completed, it is spoken aloud, helping learners to review and correct what they have written.
Children can right-click to listen to any of the words and phrases in the grid before using them, providing an opportunity to rehearse their sentences before writing them.
Enhance understanding with pictures
For additional support, add a picture to any cell in your grid - over 3,500 searchable curriculum pictures are included, and you can use your own images or snap them straight in with the Chromebook camera. As children write, each picture goes into the document too, helping them to read back what they have written.
Clicker Connect SymbolStix is also available - providing learners with extensive symbol support. The vast range of symbols offers vital support for students with a variety of learning needs; enable them to build confidence, develop greater academic independence, and better understand and use given information.
Personalized support for every student
It’s quick and easy to set up a sequence of grids for your students, arranging words and phrases into clusters as you go. Clicker Connect provides an extensive range of additional support options to suit students of all abilities:
- Color-code words or phrases to emphasize sentence structure
- Use Guided Order to ensure students work from left to right
- Enlarge cells for extra clarity
Hundreds of free resources at your fingertips
No time to make your own? A professionally made, ever expanding bank of free learning resources is just a click away. Select ‘LearningGrids’ to access a wide range of ready-made Connect Sets created by our curriculum team – new resources are added regularly.
Easy set up
Our Chrome Apps work with Google Drive, and work both online and offline. Whether you're working in a school, school district, support organization, or you're an individual user, the apps are easy to license and manage using your standard Google tools.
Accessible for all
To make access easier for those with physical challenges, the unique SuperKeys option groups the letter keys into clusters, creating just six large areas to target. Just select the cluster containing the letter you want, and then select the letter in the enlarged cluster. The Predictor/spell checker has four size options as well, to make words easy to select.
Access Clicker anytime, anywhere
Schools are using a real mix of technologies these days – investing in both Clicker 7 and Clicker Connect enables you to provide a consistent level of literacy support across your devices. We have also ensured that Clicker Connect and Clicker 7 are fully file compatible. This gives you the flexibility to create Connect Sets on a computer using Clicker 7 and use them on your Chromebooks, and to open your students' Clicker Connect work in Clicker 7.
