Clicker Phonics: Alphabet Animals
by Crick Software
Get Set!
Powered by Clicker - so this software requires that Clicker 5 or later is installed on the same computer
Alphabet Animals is the fourth program in the Clicker Phonics series and the second part of the Get Set! stage. In the Get Set stage of the Clicker Phonics series, children tune into the sounds of language, learning to focus on patterns in words and differentiating between their sounds. This builds on the skills they have learned in the Get Ready stage and lays the foundation for systematic phonic work in the Let’s Go stage. Hearing rhyme and alliteration in and between words encourages children to pay attention to detail, increasing their sensitivity to sounds in words.
In Alphabet Animals, children
- increase their awareness of sounds, letters and words
- meet fun animal characters, each with characteristics, skills and possessions based on alliteration
A variety of activities which appeal to students’ sense of enjoyment as they learn to recognise initial phonemes, including matching, writing alliterative lists, listening to alliterative sentences and recording their own versions.
In addition to the Animal book, which provides an initial stimulus and introduction to simple alliteration, Alphabet Animals includes the following activities:
In this activity children look at and select pictures of objects beginning with each letter of the alphabet. This encourages them to become familiar with the alphabet and to recognise objects that start with each letter sound.
This activity develops the ability to distinguish between different initial sounds in words by getting children to match presents to animal characters with the same initial sound.
This activity develops the ability to distinguish between different initial sounds in words by getting children to match food items to animal characters with the same initial sound.
On each activity page children answer the question ‘Who can…?’ by matching a verb to a name with the same initial sound. They also write simple sentences.
On each activity page children answer the question ‘Who is…?’ by matching an adjective to a name with the same initial sound. They also write simple sentences.
Children are given the opportunity to make their own talking book. They record themselves taking about the animals using alliterative phrases and sentences, enabling them to practise and demonstrate articulation and understanding of alliterative sounds.
The objective of this activity is to help children recognise the capital form of each letter in the alphabet and to distinguish between the initial sounds of names. Children match each named animal with friends who have the same initial sound and letter; they can also add and record their own list of names.
In this activity children are supported by Clicker writing grids as they create simple alliterative sentences about the animal characters.
Additional Activities
The additional activities give children further opportunities to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of the alphabet. In Alphabet book, children create a picture dictionary by selecting words that begin with each letter of the alphabet. In Letters, children practise lower-case letter formation.
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Clicker Phonics Background
The Clicker Phonics series gets your children going with phonics and delivers engaging materials at the right level for their needs. It is designed to be used alongside any phonics scheme, including Jolly Phonics, and takes children from the first steps of discriminating environmental sounds right up to systematic synthetic phonics.
Using the proven technology of Clicker, Clicker Phonics:
- develops speaking and listening skills and builds phonological awareness.
- presents a programme of systematic phonic work
- supports active learning through listening and recording as students get to record their own voices as they build words phonetically.
You will find Clicker Phonics an easy yet incredibly powerful way to use computers and information technology to support all your 3-to-6-year-olds, plus older students who are struggling with reading. Perfect for English language learners too!
All the activities are carefully designed to be used in both whole-class teaching with the whiteboard or touchscreen monitor, and for individual work.
This software is included on the Clicker SuperDrive.
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System Requirements
- Clicker 5 or later for Windows or for Mac
NETWORKING: All of Crick Software`s programs can be used on a network. To purchase for a network, simply buy the Site Licence. The CD includes a network installation.
Clicker Phonics: Alphabet Animals is targeted at the following age ranges:
- Early Childhood
- Early Primary
Clicker Phonics: Alphabet Animals is designed to foster development in the areas of:
- Early concepts
- Literacy
Users can access Clicker Phonics: Alphabet Animals in the following ways:
- Mouse/ Trackball/ Joystick
- Keyboard
- Touchscreen
- Single Switch
- Multiple Switches
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