Clicker Books for iPad
Clicker Books is an engaging book creation tool suitable for elementary school students across the ability spectrum.
What really sets Clicker Books apart from other book making apps is the customizable reading and writing support it offers, which empowers children of all abilities to independently demonstrate their knowledge of a particular subject or put together their very own storybook. Clicker Books is particularly effective when used to support children with dyslexia and struggling spellers.
Designed with the classroom in mind, Clicker Books includes the Sassoon font, a lower case keyboard, and many other child-friendly features to create an accessible and engaging environment for students to work in.
"This app gives children a structure to work within but also enough flexibility to produce personalized books. Clicker’s trump card is the inclusion of the word bank tool to support learners further. I would certainly recommend Clicker Books for use across the whole curriculum."
Mike Elliott, Teacher and Technology Specialist
Child-friendly book making
Students use the intuitive tools to add pictures, text, and sound to create fantastic-looking books. Provide additional support in the form of topic-specific word or picture banks; this really helps children to structure their work and encourages them to use relevant vocabulary.
Customizable writing support
As they write, children benefit from key Clicker support features including realistic speech feedback, intelligent word prediction, and a talking spellchecker. Watch your students’ confidence grow as they create flowing, grammatically-correct text with accurate spelling and more adventurous vocabulary.
Flexible illustration tools
Clicker Books enables children to illustrate their work in a variety of ways. Students can use the iPad camera to take a photo, choose images from the Camera Roll, or create their own pictures using the integrated painting tools. You can paint on top of photos too!
Opportunities to listen and record
When children have completed their text, they can click on the Sound Button to listen to what they have written. Alternatively, they can record their own speech – an opportunity to practice their speaking and listening skills, elaborate on a particular point, or simply make a note of their initial thoughts to refer to during the writing process!
Teacher-friendly tools
As well as being a wonderful app for helping children to create their own books, Clicker Books provides you with an easy way to create personalized reading books for your learners. Tailor the subject matter and comprehension level to your students’ particular learning needs and objectives.
Provide additional support with model sentences
It’s so easy to differentiate the support offered in each sentence building activity, enabling every student to achieve writing success.
As a first step, display the completed sentence as a model on the grid to copy. Next, add the model in the form of a pop-up – children can see the sentence, but must close the pop-up before they can continue. With an auditory model, children must listen carefully before writing. You can even create a guided-order activity, perfect for reinforcing left-to-right directionality.
Share resources and work your way
We have incorporated a variety of ways to share Clicker Books files; choose whichever works best for your school set-up. Print your work to any AirPrint-compatible printer, or share it via AirDrop, Dropbox, Google Drive, Mail, WebDAV, or OneDrive.
Access Clicker anytime, anywhere
Sometimes an iPad is the best technology to use for a particular learning task, whereas other times a laptop or PC is the most suitable option – investing in both Clicker 7 and Clicker Books enables you to provide a consistent level of literacy support across your school’s devices. We have also ensured that Clicker Books and Clicker 7 are fully file compatible. This gives you the flexibility to create Clicker Books on a computer using Clicker 7 and use them on your iPads, and to open your students' Clicker Books work in Clicker 7.
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